Kernel-level anti-cheats: a necessary devil
Cheating is an increasingly endemic problem to multiplayer video games on PCs, and as a response, we've seen the "Cambrian explosion" of anti-cheats designed to combat this situation. However, a vast majority of these products are choosing to run with the highest privileges possible on your system: the kernel-level. This choice has caused a lot of scrutiny from customers over the possible ramifications of this decision on their usage of their computer: particularly, over the privacy, security and stability of their PCs.
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