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Ring 0 of fire: Does Riot Games ’new anti-cheat measure go too far ?, Ars Technica

Ring 0 of fire: Does Riot Games ’new anti-cheat measure go too far ?, Ars Technica

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Riot tells Ars kernel-level system could be removed if vulnerability is detected.

      

      

Artist's conception of some players' perception of </section>  Valorant  's anti-cheat driver. Enlarge / Artist’s conception of some players’ perception of (Valorant) ‘s anti-cheat driver. Aurich Lawson / Getty / Riot

(In the ever-evolving cat-and-mouse (battle between cheaters and game developers , Riot Games is taking expanded measures to protect legitimate players in its new tactical combat game

Valorant But Riot’s new Vanguard anti-cheat system — which involves a kernel-level driver that has very low-level access to your system — is raising some eyebrows among both players and security experts. While the Vanguard anti-cheat client only launches when

Valorant

is being played, Riot says the system also makes use of a “kernel mode driver” that starts operating as soon as Windows boots up. That’s a big change from Riot’s pre-Vanguard anti-cheat systems, which operated entirely at the more common “user mode” level, just like most Windows executables.

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