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My brother claims that Vanguard for League can do the same to gaming PCs that install it as CrowdStrike did to businesses who installed that, is this true? Does Vanguard have as much access/power? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Theoretically it should only be running during gameplay, and that's probably true as I'm sure security researchers would've pointed it out if games installed a persistently running rootkit. So it's different than Crowdstrike which was running immediately from boot.

So there is that, if it caused your PC to crash it should be fine after reboot. The driver has God power though as far as your PC goes so if it was the point of entry for a malicious attack you could be really screwed.

Edit: apparently I'm wrong and it runs all the time what the fuck

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Vanguard is always running at all times.

Honestly no idea why it isn't considered malware.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For the same reason spyware and adware is not anymore malware categories scanned for by antivirus software: our fucked up economy, and because average people accept everything no questions asked.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

It runs all the time and launches during boot. A ring0 anticheat that only runs while the game is running would be even more pointless