r/pcmasterrace • u/Technical-Sound1158 • May 02 '24

This is why we should NEVER tolerate this invasive "anti cheats" (aka rootkits) on our systems. "lol". News/Article

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u/Extreme_Garlic_87000 May 03 '24

When I was working as a Cybersecurity Analyst a few years ago, I remember a few times where we received reports of suspicious activity coming from some computers.

Looking through the report, we could see this piece of code did really nasty things. Injected in the kernel level, could monitor processes... And we were like "Yep, that's malware behavior".

Until we saw that the folder the code was in had a familiar game name. And the hash came back positive for an AntiCheat software.

Now I really don't want these things on my computer. And no one would install these if they saw what they really can do.