>Note: Valorant installs a kernel driver as part of the "anti-cheat" system; described by many as a rootkit: https://www.osnews.com/story/131665/riot-games-make

>Note: Valorant installs a kernel driver as part of the "anti-cheat" system; described by many as a rootkit: https://www.osnews.com/story/131665/riot-games-maker-of-leag https://www.osnews.com/story/131665/riot-games-maker-of-leag... yeah. that's going to be more-and-more commonplace, too. I don't know why it's suddenly fashionable/allowable to touch ring 0 as installed software, but here we are. the irony of the whole thing is that while game-devs rootkit clients in order to pull in more marketing data/telemetry/whatever else the ToS allows them to steal, the real game cheaters out there are using extremely cheap CotS parts to create artificial man-in-the-middle clients that they can manipulate instead, with the host PC totally oblivious that the computer that's plugged into it as a HID is the one cheating. I've said this thousands of times, I'll use this opportunity to say it again : the only method available to routinely and reliably find game-cheaters is through constant statistical analysis of the players performance/inventory/score versus the environment they're in. The days of tuning such a system will be filled with false-positives, but it's the only way to accomplish anything near comprehensive anti-cheat. Need to get a few bucks for the project? Call that statistical analysis machine learning and say that you're going to provide it as a service. Sit back and watch the money flow in.