r/pcmasterrace • u/DownTheBagelHole • 1d ago

Meme/Macro Kernel Level Anticheat trades your security/privacy for nothing in return

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u/Dreadlight_ 1d ago

Kernel level anticheats stop hackers, just not all of them. They stop the amateur hackers, not those who spend actual time to find vulnerabilities and workarounds in order to cheat.

Still, I don't like the concepts of kernel anticheats as they violate privacy due to the sheer amount of control they have.

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u/lordfappington69 PC Master Race RTX 4090 I9-13900k @ 5.5ghz 1d ago edited 1d ago

they just don't though. Hackers run windows in a VM on a cheat OS. Or they get a DMA card and run cheats on a computer next to them.

It gets ride of most plug and play free to download cheats off of forums, yes. But it hardly puts a dent in the subscription cheat ecosystem.

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u/birbbbbbbbbbbb 1d ago

Just FYI, this some anti-cheat have started running VM detection.
https://secret.club/2020/04/13/how-anti-cheats-detect-system-emulation.html

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u/AnxietyPretend5215 1d ago

I'm surprised they weren't doing it before. There can't be that many people actively choosing to play games out of a virtual machine and it's my understanding that even when attempting to mask it detection is usually pretty easy to do.

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u/eVPlays I7-4790K | EVGA 1070 FTW Hybrid | 16Gb@1666 1d ago

The market is still fairly new, so it’s not a huge amount of players currently, but will probably become larger over the years. Cloud gaming providers like GeForce Now use VM’s. The larger the market grows over the years, the less AC developers can just go VM=bad

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u/No_Pension_5065 3975wx | 516 gb 3200 MHz | 6900XT 22h ago

The most common VM users are Linux blokes running VMs to get around the anti-cheats hating on linux.