• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I would never let some random anticheat code have kernel access. Games are demanding something crazy, and users are stupidly letting them get it.

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      6 months ago

      It’s not just silently installed by Steam, or something, they have to explicitly confirm they accept it? I don’t play this game, I am curious if players are unaware or actively stupid.

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        6 months ago

        Riot’s games can only be played with their own launcher, so no steam. They give a big message about “now installing vanguard, our anticheat,” then inform you to reboot to finish the install, since vanguard is the only ring 0 anticheat that puts itself into the kernel start up, always running.

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        6 months ago

        Some are unaware, but most are actively stupid. Bring this topic up in any helldiver’s thread and you’ll get down voted to oblivion.

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        6 months ago

        I I stalled helldiver’s and didn’t realize I was doing that.

        I’m not exactly savvy though.