Kernel level Anti-Cheat has access to all the hardware and software on the computer. So if the Anti-Cheat is ever compromised through a vulnerability, then those hackers would have complete control over your system.
Nearly every major anti cheat implementation is ring-0 access. If you have any game with EasyAntiCheat or BattlEye installed, you’ve also got one. This is of course not to say they aren’t a worrying thing, but they aren’t abnormal and HD2 certainly isn’t the only one to use it.
8 million people with a kernel level rootkit on their machines. WCGW?
I’m out of the loop about that. What is wrong with the game?
Kernel level Anti-Cheat has access to all the hardware and software on the computer. So if the Anti-Cheat is ever compromised through a vulnerability, then those hackers would have complete control over your system.
Nearly every major anti cheat implementation is ring-0 access. If you have any game with EasyAntiCheat or BattlEye installed, you’ve also got one. This is of course not to say they aren’t a worrying thing, but they aren’t abnormal and HD2 certainly isn’t the only one to use it.
Games with EAC:
• 7 Days to Die
• Absolver
• Albion Online
• Apex Legends
• Audition
• Audition Next Level
• Battlefield 2042
• Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
• Beyond the Wire
• Black Clover: Quartet Knights
• Black Desert Online
• Blankos: Block Party
• Blazing Sails
• Bleeding Edge
• Block N Load
• Cabal Online
• Captain Tsubasa
• CardLife
• Chivalry 2
• Crossout
• CRSED: F.O.A.D.
• Darkfall: Rise of Agon
• Darwin Project
• Dauntless
• Dead by Daylight
• Deadside
• Dirty Bomb
• Dragon Ball FighterZ
• Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
• Dreadnought
• Due Process
• Dying Light: Bad Blood
• Empyrion
• Enlisted
• Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
• Fear the Wolves
• For Honor
• Fortnite Battle Royale
• Friday the 13th
• Gears 5
• H-Hour: World Elite
• Halo: The Master Chief Collection
• Heat
• Hell Let Loose
• Hood: Outlaws & Legends
• Hunt: Showdown
• Hurtworld
• Intruder
• iRacing
• Ironsight
• Jump Force
• Last Oasis
• Lost Ark
• M.A.R.S.
• Memories of Mars
• Miscreated
• Monstrum 2
• Naruto To Boruto: Shinobi Striker
• New GUNDAM Breaker
• New World
• One Punch Man
• Overstep
• Paladins
• Pandemic Express
• Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville
• Post Scriptum
• Predator: Hunting Grounds
• Quantum League
• Ragnarok
• Realm Royale
• Rec Room
• Reign of Kings
• RF Online
• Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
• Robocraft
• Rocket Arena
• Rogue Company
• Rust
• SCUM
• Sector’s Edge
• Smite
• Space Junkies
• Squad
• Star Wars: Squadrons
• Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission
• Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris
• Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
• Tales Runner
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands
• Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
• Trials Rising
• War Rock
• War Thunder
• Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade
• Warhammer: Vermintide 2
• Watch Dogs 2
• Will To Live Online
• Wolf Team
• WolfTeam Turkey
• Worms Rumble
• XERA: Survival
• Yulgang TH
Ya, that’s indeed a list of games to avoid if you care about security.