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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)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Huh, seems like you're right:

Riot Vanguard is an on-boot application. That means if you do choose to disable it and later decide you’d like to play VALORANT, you will have to restart your computer.

https://support-valorant.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046160933-What-is-Vanguard

I guess, it's only user-space drivers which Windows can load at runtime then?
At least, I'm hoping that's a technical limitation of Windows. Otherwise, this is fucking stupid.

Well, it always is fucking stupid, but it would be even more so.