Chinese-owned Riot installs rootkit on every League of Legends players' computer
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#4Wow, talk about clickbait.
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#5None clickbait title:
Riot Games will rollout their vanguard anti-cheat to league of legends.
for those not in the loop, Vanguard is the anti-cheat Riot Games created for Valorant, their competitive first person shooter. The issue with Vanguard is that it's quite an aggressive anti-cheat, it runs on Ring 0 as a windows kernel driver. Hence, why some people call it a "rootkit".
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#7I'm not a huge TenCent fan but this is a wildly misleading title.
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#8None clickbait title: Riot Games will rollout their vanguard anti-cheat to league of legends. for those not in the loop, Vanguard is the anti-cheat Riot Games created for Valorant, their competitive first person shooter. The issue with Vanguard is that it's quite an aggressive anti-cheat, it runs on Ring 0 as a windows kernel driver. Hence, why some people call it a "rootkit".
What isn't root about ring zero permission?
Re: Chinese-owned Riot installs rootkit on every League of Legends players' computer
#9None clickbait title: Riot Games will rollout their vanguard anti-cheat to league of legends. for those not in the loop, Vanguard is the anti-cheat Riot Games created for Valorant, their competitive first person shooter. The issue with Vanguard is that it's quite an aggressive anti-cheat, it runs on Ring 0 as a windows kernel driver. Hence, why some people call it a "rootkit".
What isn't root about ring zero permission?
I think its the “kit” part people are objecting to. Arguing that this software won’t make it easier to install other malware (unlike the infamous Lenovo LSE rootkit, which would install and hide other software).
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#10None clickbait title: Riot Games will rollout their vanguard anti-cheat to league of legends. for those not in the loop, Vanguard is the anti-cheat Riot Games created for Valorant, their competitive first person shooter. The issue with Vanguard is that it's quite an aggressive anti-cheat, it runs on Ring 0 as a windows kernel driver. Hence, why some people call it a "rootkit".
It's no different than easy anticheat which many games use.