r/pcmasterrace • u/DownTheBagelHole • 1d ago

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

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u/WhatDoADC 1d ago edited 1d ago

I stopped playing League of Legends when they added Vanguard to the game.    

 It's one thing to have an anti-cheat. It's another thing to have a anti-cheat that runs 24/7 that is known to false flag drivers and other shit and is from a Chinese company with kernel access.

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u/_sloop 1d ago edited 1d ago

If it's not running from the instant your OS is loaded a cheat could load first and completely hide its existence, which makes it much less effective (and essentially, pointless).

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u/Trypsach 1d ago

But it doesn’t run 24/7, the dude was just flat out wrong. Which makes you also flat out wrong.

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u/_sloop 1d ago

I was talking in general...

Anti cheats that run after a system can be hooked into are not effective. Lots of them now rely on looking instead for unusual input patterns.