the biggest issue with vanguard is how it actually runs, there are plently more kernel-level anticheat solutions out there, but vanguard continues running even if you do not have the game open, this is a serious security risk, with things like easy anti-cheat at the very least hackers can only exploit the kernel level driver when the game is running, however with vanguard its always exploitable, which makes the problem even bigger.

@SkyyySi

5 ай бұрын

If the game installed a kernel driver, and it can activate it at any point, then so can a pice of malware. I don't really see the improvement provided by not running constantly.

@ignacioariellopez8491

5 ай бұрын

You could terminate it, though you wont be allowed to play at all until you reboot. And thats the shady and disgusting part, that they've made it so "difficult" so that the normal playerbase would have it constantly running in the background without their knowledge at all.

@LowLevelLearning

5 ай бұрын

YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP

@2khz

5 ай бұрын

Yeah if you disable it you have to restart your PC before you can play again because it *must* ensure that it runs before all other software, including other kernel drivers, so that the software can be sure that it cannot be tampered with. It has its advantages of course but it is a scary prospect when you consider the attack surface area that's opened up.

@Peter_Schluss-Mit-Lustig

5 ай бұрын

so they essentially ask you to install a program, that has access to everything and only let you play the game while you are happy with running it 24/7 i don't think LoL is a good enough game to warrant installing some weird VMs just to run it safely

Pretty disturbing how many companies are moving toward installing literal root kits on your computer and pretending it's okay

@Simon_fpv

5 ай бұрын

THIS, i am tired of acting like most anticheats arent just rootkits

@SkyyySi

5 ай бұрын

> moving toward They have been doing this bullshit for decades

@random6033

5 ай бұрын

EAC is also a rootkit

@talesvinicius598

5 ай бұрын

Gamers are 100% okay with this, that's the problem, when vanguard was first announced/released you could see some of the same complaints about it and the complaints were drowned by the amount of people claiming that X game should also implement an anti cheater just like vanguard so they could have less cheaters.

@ignacioariellopez8491

5 ай бұрын

Man, we have allowed it since the turn of the century... Im the first one that advocates for privacy, security and all that stuff, but dude, its been happening since personal computers first appeared, and we allowed it, so why are we taking this as something new and be all angry about it? Not that we shouldnt have, but it is a little too late, dont you think?

It's important to note that hackers can get FULL access to millions of PCs if they manage to hack Vanguard. And this will be enough motivation for some of them to attempt it. This anticheat is something literally no one asked for. For every scripter I run into I run into 100+ trolls. There's far FAR FAR more trolls who ruin peoples games than there is scripters. Riot either has terribly wrong/bad priorities or they implement it for datamining or similar reasons.

@elementalgolem5498

26 күн бұрын

thats NOT how that works my guy. vanguard being kernel level really has no impact on safety or any of that bs. you are highly unlikely to get hacked through vanguard. the realistic effect this will have on your system is negligable and you definetily do open yourself to way more dangerous things on the daily

@lanceward4665

12 күн бұрын

Maybe there isn’t much scripters because anti-cheat is working?

@kiyoponnn

14 сағат бұрын

why do you think that is? it is because anticheat has improved over the years and those cheaters who lack skill have begun trolling because they know they play terribly without cheating. Being against better anticheat makes me think that you are a cheater yourself.

@elementalgolem5498

14 сағат бұрын

@@kiyoponnn being against anticheat being uneccisarily invasive is different to being against anticheat. They don't need it to be kernel level to work, they're just lazy

Hope somebody creates their own rootkit to see what data Vanguard collects. I'll bet it is more than they are legally allowed to do.

@penguinmonk7661

4 ай бұрын

I might be able to get a Masters student to research this with me, gonna be in a year or two though already have all the projects for this year lined up.

@saintskillerdntfkwth

4 ай бұрын

i got you bro i found this from someone who contacted riot support Vanguard's "driver does not collect or send any information about your computer back to us". From what I understand, the local Vanguard driver has a set state monitoring your computer. While it checks files for the presence of an anticheat or altering of the driver, it does not transmit any of that data. All it does is give a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" to the client version of Vanguard. So while the driver portion of the anitcheat has kernel level access and technically can view or alter files, if it even does that it is entirely local and only gives a positive or negative response to the client. Do what you want with that information.

@penguinmonk7661

3 ай бұрын

​@@saintskillerdntfkwthIf this is how it works then I actually applaud Riot on their approach, a data obuscation API flag is EXACTLY how I would have done this. Still, even a harmless flag system like this can be used for data probing, so I am not entirely convinced yet.

@TomislavCirkovic-hm8mr

3 ай бұрын

You are right they steal you personal info they steal my facebook account and steam account infos and now they ignoring me like nothing happened I thnink that I will lawsuit them i hope riot games collapse but they are too much idiots who still play this trash games

@toomeowstream3253

3 ай бұрын

@@saintskillerdntfkwth "contacted riot support" Stopped reading right there at first, then calmed down and read the whole comment. - Riot's "Just trust us bro" attitude stinks imho and I don't trust Tencent (and Chinese companies in general). - Yeah I'm aware I'm already giving my personal information to everyone (willingly or unwillingly, doesn't matter) but anything related to Russia or China really bothers me. - I have too much personal information stored in my computer (and no, nothing related to porn or hentai etc.) because I also use my PC for business purposes. My phone already gets infested with obvious bait-spam messages constantly and I delete them instantly, I don't want to risk my PC too you know. - I've quit LoL five or six months ago (been playing since Jinx was introduced) and never played Valorant, think I'm too old for that s**t lmao. I really wanted to return because I've always had fun no matter what, until I read all about that Vanguard thing. I suggest anyone reading this comment to never EVER reinstall the game until Riot REALLY assures Vanguard is safe and immune to get hacked.

The difference between malware and anti cheat is just semantics at this point

@creeper6530

5 ай бұрын

And the worst part is that the average Joe doesn't realize it

@MatsYoo

5 ай бұрын

@@creeper6530 the average joe just wants a program that works, until theres an issue that affects him

@lodgin

4 ай бұрын

tbh, the difference between malware and operating systems (Windows) is just semantics at this point

@Xetarine

4 ай бұрын

@@lodgin Real.

@Sorest2

4 ай бұрын

@@creeper6530 You want cheaters in your game or preceived privacy? Keyloggers and screenrecorders can all be executed with only application level priviliage as we speak. If you don't want to, don't play?

I feel you missed another problem: Riot might not be ill intended, but it makes them an even bigger target for hackers to steal data through them. Riot doesn't need a scandal of collecting data on you, all they need is a security breach they were late to notice.

@tails55

5 ай бұрын

And given how sloppy their coding seems to be at moments, sooner or later a security breach is bound to happen

@mr.rabbit5642

5 ай бұрын

Truth be told im pretty sure they already have 3rs parties inside for months. Question is whether Vanguard opens a doorway to RCE, or is shipped complete

@Elephantiago

5 ай бұрын

Just as Tik-Tok is not a spyware. US might be at war witch China over Taiwan or Australia in just a few years. Imagine getting drafted and your enemy has personal information about 50% of your troops. It's not about detecting cheaters anymore, it's more about maximizing your chance of winning a future conflict at this point. And if WWII has a lesson to teach, it's that intel on enemy is what wins a war (see the story of Alan Turing and cracking the Enigma encryption)

@flintfrommother3gaming

5 ай бұрын

THEY ARE ILL INTENDED, those who think otherwise are mentally challenged. Tencent literally owns Riot, why do you think they basically have a root kit (or an anti-cheat as they call it) in their games?

@mariusvasile6543

5 ай бұрын

And last time they got hacked was less than 1 year ago when the entire league of legends source code and league of legends anti-cheat source code got stolen. LOL.

I have been playing League since season 2. Got the prompt to install Vanguard today, went to check what was going on. Stopped reading when it said "kernel level", there was nothing they could do to salvage this. As much as I would like to continue playing, the game is not worth giving someone kernel level access. It's time to say goodbye.

@reaperzxxtj8759

2 күн бұрын

Kernel level isnt new. 90% of anti cheats run kernel level. The difference between them is that something like Easy Anti Cheat runs in usermode and the connection is completely severed to the kernel when the game is terminated. Vanguard however, loads at ring 0 even before windows is loaded.This sits at the same level as GPU or chipset drivers which is why when a crucial driver like Nvidia completely crashes you need to reboot the whole system. Which is exactly what happens with vanguard, severing the service manually or disabling it on startup just means you must reactivate it and reboot if you have any hope of playing the game.

Let's trust that Riot won't just let a hacker slide into vanguard's code and use it to plant agressive malware on everyone's computer (clueless)

@Slend582

4 ай бұрын

they already did with reverse engineering

@marvin.toyboy

4 ай бұрын

As a game engineer and old malware developper, please, stop telling bs and install a specific OS for games and another for your life/work if you aren't happy. No body is gonna hack your anti-cheat driver in order to install a rootkit on your computer, you are nobody, believe me, you have to be very good to create a such exploit and nobody will risk to expose that kind of exploit in order to hack a little person like you, or nobody want to hack you with that level of complexity. You little boy watched too much movies, you are nobody but a little pretentious boy talking very much without having any cybersec skill. (there are already more than 100 methods to infect your computer and steal everything we can steal and this without having access to the kernel, so you guys are whining for nothing, you guys are simply a bunch of pretentious people with a lot of beliefs, you guys put more effort to talk about anti-cheat than cheaters)

@saintskillerdntfkwth

4 ай бұрын

4 years strong. I'll update in the next 4 years

@FrozenXO

4 ай бұрын

something something solarwinds

@NMXLY

4 ай бұрын

Then i Hope you haven't played any of these games, that also have kernal level anti cheats - Apex Legends (EAC) - Fortnite (EAC) - Paladins (EAC) - Player Unknown: Battlegrounds (BE) - Rainbow Six: Siege (BE) - Planetside 2 (BE) - H1Z1 (BE) - Day-Z (BE) - Ark Survival Evolved (BE) - Dead by Daylight (EAC) - For Honor (EAC)

Please don't buy a second computer just to play this game. if I were TenCent, I'd see that as a signal that no matter how shitty their behavior, people will go to extreme lengths (at significant expense) to continue playing their games.

@sorek__

5 ай бұрын

But to be honest what are better options? I love the game and I hate cheaters - how to get rid of them otherwise?

@toby_cm

5 ай бұрын

@@sorek__ server side anti cheat

@Parritz

5 ай бұрын

@@sorek__ There really isn't a better option. You can't beat cheaters unless you can play on the same level as them, and they sure aren't gonna play nice and run their cheats user-mode. They're going straight for the kernel.

@fulconandroadcone9488

5 ай бұрын

@@sorek__ account age. if you played for 2 years regular and you have consistent rank compared to other players you should be trusted, just use account age and performance over time, how hard can it be, at any rate it still does more for anti cheat since you can never guaranty there are no hacks.

@fulconandroadcone9488

5 ай бұрын

@@Parritz they could also get an exploit at hardware level, anti cheat software sounds like : " we make your computer trustworthy" like that ever worked.

This is actually a very good thing. It will get people to stop playing league of legends.

@cheesebucketman1606

5 ай бұрын

Good point

@AUGHHHH_

5 ай бұрын

Unironically this 100%, finally free from this pile of shit, especially with how tone-deaf Riot has become as of late

@TheLoneBit

5 ай бұрын

Yup. I'm about to uninstall it right now.

@friendlyneighborhoodtotall1902

4 ай бұрын

it wont lmao, its too big to fail. You can come back in 3 years and let me know if its dead

@darkmoon7422

4 ай бұрын

@@friendlyneighborhoodtotall1902 It's already half-dead, at least on semi-pro side. Without new talents the game at pro-level won't last long either as people get old. New generations are worse in general, and this trend has been there for years. While it won't stop casual players from playing it, as many just cant stop at this time, having no real goal will eventually kill the game. Although that's whole another topic.

As a software/game developer myself, there's no way I'm installing that sht in my personal computer

@wannabeprettysoul

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, you should never give/share root/account access. Never trust internet!

@ambius2

2 ай бұрын

Why not install the game in a VM? I don't think a root kernel can tunnel out of that. Can it?

@thegovtdoesntcareaboutyou

2 ай бұрын

As a linux user+linux server admin, even if i had windows there's NO WAY i would have installed it on my computer

@thegovtdoesntcareaboutyou

2 ай бұрын

vms are slow@@ambius2

@carbonbeaker409

2 ай бұрын

@@ambius2VM installation is difficult as Vanguard has measures against it, not unbeatable measures, but difficult enough that even people versed in the field can find it not worth the effort.

Worse part is that the anti cheat has a chance of bricking and messing with key aspects of your pc. The software literally runs 24/7 and is completely messing with the system despite assurances it won't!

@ImSkye

4 ай бұрын

Correct, I lost my perfect windows 10 setup to their AC. When I contacted support about the BSOD caused by their driver, they just told me to reinstall instead of telling me where the file to delete was.

@reeceward5573

4 ай бұрын

Many applications come with kernel drivers; many of them "COULD" brick your PC. These are professional software engineering teams designing this. It's not just anti-cheats that could be affected by this.

@crashniels

4 ай бұрын

Yeah it is an issue. I remember the FaceIT anti-cheat causing blue screens on my PC. It clearly said "faceit.sys". Uninstalled it and it has not crashed since.

@ImSkye

4 ай бұрын

​@@reeceward5573Vanguard is the only one that randomly does it combined with the developer refusing support for the devices that fell victims.

@oui7171

4 ай бұрын

@@reeceward5573 The thing is, they are incompetent, you can't even uninstal the game with the regular uninstaler, why should we trust them with that?

Also, no more League/TFT on Steam Deck anymore (Vanguard doesn't support Mac or Linux) so not a security issue for a lot of us lol

@sajayrrr

5 ай бұрын

Not true, Riot devs confirmed Vanguard wouldn't be needed on mac (and by extension I think the same would probably apply to linux) so we should be good

@arashi9469

5 ай бұрын

@@sajayrrr Linux runs the Windows version of League, and a Rioter said that they'll make no exception for Wine. So yeah, League just won't run on Linux

@ojonathan

5 ай бұрын

@@sajayrrrSorry but it's 100% true, Vanguard do not support Mac or Linux. It was never said LoL would not run on macOS (it will), but it was already confirmed that it won't on Linux.

@dzigayu4944

5 ай бұрын

Just gonna play TFT mobile I guess.

@victor-oh

5 ай бұрын

So the safest place to play Riot games are mobile phones

Vanguard is really intrusive

@COALEDasICE

5 ай бұрын

It's the closest you can get to a bootloader without being one. It's actually ridiculous

@lazyraccoon1526

5 ай бұрын

luckily its owned by a company based in a country that is known for never committing cyberattacks@@COALEDasICE

@cameronbosch1213

5 ай бұрын

They wonder why I don't play Valorant. This is why. If I wanted a rootkit, I'd invite Russia on my computer. Probably be more entertaining.

@purplewine7362

5 ай бұрын

@@cameronbosch1213 NO ONE wonders why you don't play valorant, pal

@maxave7448

5 ай бұрын

@@purplewine7362you missed the point

Thanks. Today was enforcement day for League / Vanguard and watching your video made it easier for me to know to uninstall. This is batshit insane and I'm glad I'm not the only one. 14+ years of league goodbye.

@6etcetera

Ай бұрын

this comment motivated me to uninstall, i’ve only been playing for 4 years and only because all my friends play it, but the comments out here are very awakening.

@EditingForReal

28 күн бұрын

Same here , uninstalled.

@Wawza14Gameplays

24 күн бұрын

right there with you man, 12 years on my side through thick and thin with this game, thought it was gonna be eternal and sung praise for it on the MOBA genre, but Riot once again proved me wrong, atleast I kicked my lol addiction.

my favorite part is how vanguard remains on your computer after you have uninstalled all games that require it. One day i turned on my computer and found vanguard running in my background processes, I remembered I downloaded Valorant and played it once like months ago, and then uninstalled it. i was upset at the least to learn that their anti-cheat was still up and running behind the scenes doing WHAT? What on earth is an anti-cheating doing in the background processes if the games its meant to detect cheating in aren't even installed on your device.

@shintyxd788

4 ай бұрын

while uninstalling valorant you need to uninstall vanguard separately. Im pretty sure they made it this way so average andy would just uninatall valorant without uninstalling vanguard so it can collect "DATA" from the computer while running.

@saintskillerdntfkwth

4 ай бұрын

@@shintyxd788 every single game that has an anti cheat (apex or rainbow 6 or pubg, etc) all make you install and uninstall the anti cheat seperately, and they are also rootkits. stop spreading misinformation

@posizzisop2389

4 ай бұрын

You can just uninstall vanguard. There is a button for that.

@Razzlelul

4 ай бұрын

You can literally uninstall it separately, I love reading braindead comments 😭

@Captn-Z-Fear

4 ай бұрын

@@Razzlelulnot the point... my point is "literally" i dont want to have to install and uninstall more than one application to play your game like yes, I know you can uninstall it, but at the time I didn't know much about anti-cheats in video games and never foresaw that I would have to go manually uninstall anti-cheats myself after uninstalling their corresponding games. i aint downloading a game that does that. like im sure its not doing anything evil, its probably the only way for them to prevent cheaters since cheating has gone this far in this day and age, but its the idea that its on my computer and has the ABILITY to do evil even if it actually isnt that bothers me

Their next version of anticheat will most probably be installing cameras inside your home to make sure the mouse movements are done by a human and not some robot.

@Ultima64

5 ай бұрын

Well they already do that with school tests done online so it isn't too far fetched :/

@vatsalyasoni8324

4 ай бұрын

Than they'll ban faker's account

@avananana

4 ай бұрын

@@Ultima64 There's no way that you just compared school tests to a fucking video game. School tests lead to official and legally recognized results, video games do not. Cameras on formal examinations are fine and dandy as long as they do not require you to film anything that is not of legitimate interest to the school themselves, i.e no cameras in other rooms or pointing towards random directions that are irrelevant to the examination.

@nemtudom5074

4 ай бұрын

Considering most people play on laptops, thats already the case.

@MrTriple3D

4 ай бұрын

@@avananana honestly school tests shouldn't even be done outside of an actual teachers physical eye sight.

And people are crying for valve to implement a kernel level anticheat to counter strike 2. Blows my mind people are begging for spyware to be added to their games. Thanks for the video! 👍

@jgangx

5 ай бұрын

Most people dont give a shit and just want to play the game without cheaters. I've also done computer security research, but really even the worst case scenario will only affect a very small percentage of people and most people are fine with doing way more destructive things daily. Realistically, driving a car 3 blocks is more dangerous than the probable risk posed by this. Not arguing for it, just giving the other side.

@melongrasp

5 ай бұрын

@@jgangx It's understandable that people want to play without cheaters but your argument is not really valid here. It's like saying "Why would I lock my apartment door, if a door to my building are locked?"

@apprenticerocker9885

5 ай бұрын

@@jgangx I understand but in my opinion people are taking a game (which most plays for fun and not for eSports) too seriously, I'd be pissed off if a cheater ruins a match but I'd quickly move to the next one and while there are eSports competitions with money prizes and such these could be held at eSports cafès and other places where owners can control the hardware and software, these would even be a nice way for fans to meet and make best friends, last year I had a great time going to in person Splatoon tournaments.

@wnsjimbo2863

5 ай бұрын

​@@apprenticerocker9885 Sell you are free to leave the game then Casual dont care what anti cheat the game runs Hardcore fans wanted vanguard to come yo league

@TeamSprocket

5 ай бұрын

@@jgangx Are you seriously arguing that the risk of bodily injury during a car wreck is a comparable risk to a rootkit being exploited when a company with terrible security is deploying it 24/7? Incomprehensible.

The problem is you can't even get to uninstall everything riot-related properly and it's terrifying

@0000none3

3 ай бұрын

how

@shaggy4667

3 ай бұрын

@@0000none3 League of Legends doesn't come packed with an uninstaller, and for the other games (especially the riot launcher) once you uninstall them they leave files hanging left and right

@adgjmptpwpjm123

Ай бұрын

@@shaggy4667 exactly, all to steal valuable data from its users, classic CCP tactics

@Daniel_Rahl

Ай бұрын

@@shaggy4667 that´s why I can´t uninstall lol - wth!

@black_dragon274

29 күн бұрын

@@Daniel_Rahl same sh!t with ea laucher. you can t unistall that piece of sh!t!! azz launcher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi, great video! Would a dual boot circumvent the Vanguard issue? Or would Vanguard still be able to access both operating systems installed?

@Adityarm.08

Ай бұрын

+1, Linux storage can be encrypted by default. & if it's still concerning, linux can be installed on external SSD which can be physically disconnected when running windows.

@cassiuscartland

18 күн бұрын

Yes, because its a kernel extension it could affect your main OS. However, if you use a VM to install Windows and install VanGaurd on that it can't affect your main PC

You should do more vid like this, not always tech related but something you want to talk about

@LowLevelLearning

5 ай бұрын

I will :)

@Eagledelta3

5 ай бұрын

@@LowLevelLearning I enjoyed this video and have been saying many of the same things for years. The problem is I usually get the "Then why aren't we hearing Security Experts talk about it?" Ignoring, of course, that I personally have 10+ years of experience in Systems AND Software AND Cloud Engineering. But yeah, you know a lot more on this topic than I do and what I do know scares me.

@mfschris6174

4 ай бұрын

Nice

Is there a date for your assembly course? I am really excited about it.

Another issue with this is that there simply are not many cheaters on league. In my 7 years of playing the game, I could count on one hand the amount of times I've run into someone using cheats. If they think I'm going to install vanguard to continue playing the game they are wrong, I've already wasted enough of my life on this god forsaken game.

@albertnoble2727

4 ай бұрын

Tbf last year I ran into a lot of cheaters. Though if they were banned after a few games every time, issue would sort itself out honestly. All riot has to do is hire a couple of guys for spesifically banning cheaters, starting from higher elos.

@giswax

4 ай бұрын

@@albertnoble2727 Do you play on something besides NA? My experience ranged from smurfing with friends to my main, so from silver-masters, and I would be shocked if I played every day and somehow missed a massive amount of cheaters. (and friends from all elos have the same experience as me on NA)

@albertnoble2727

4 ай бұрын

@@giswax yeah i don't play on na. It must be about that, the cheaters i saw was hard to miss

@Jacob_Overby

4 ай бұрын

I only recall roughly 3 scripters using dodge scripts on obvious champs in gold-plat elo recently. And that's within the past couple of years. Use to see them a lot back in s2/s3/s4 era but you hardly see it any more.

@ilprincipe8094

4 ай бұрын

Scripting is a big problem in high elo and there are many people who openly admit to scripting for hundreds of games and never get punished

Hoping that since LOL is more popular than Valorant, people in the virtualization community can dump the AC and just have more eyes on it in general to be able to run this in a VM.

@Ellefsen97

5 ай бұрын

I hope we can find workarounds aswell, but I read somewhere that people got banned after a patch because they played LoL on Linux. So virtualization has banned players unfairly in the past

@megadjc192

5 ай бұрын

@@Ellefsen97 More specifically they were banned because they were missing a patch. That version has been corrected and a few people had their bans reversed when they actually had a human look at their ticket. The version in question was wine-lol-staging on the AUR. I was on the dev team who helped fix league on linux. Too bad we can't continue to play... Vanguard is where I myself, draw the line.

@depralexcrimson

5 ай бұрын

lmfao i was calling this for years, that they'll force vanguard for LoL too, and nobody believed me lmao

@Ellefsen97

5 ай бұрын

@@megadjc192 You’re not alone. I’ve played League since S2, but I have decided to uninstall because of Vanguard. I don’t like the precedent it sets. While I don’t think Riot has any bad intentions with the Kernel Driver, it’s impossible to know what the driver does. I don’t feel comfortable installing a root kit by a company 100% owned by the biggest Chinese company in the world as well

@bowiemtl

5 ай бұрын

I’m 99% sure you already can through hyper-V

As a game dev, please do more videos like this.

@MsSoldadoRaso

4 ай бұрын

as a cheat dev, please dont do more videos like this

@3bdo3id

4 ай бұрын

​@@MsSoldadoRaso 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Tetrathegod

4 ай бұрын

wait , if i turn off vanguard ALWAYS , im fine right? or I shoudn't let it get installed at all?

@emptywhy

4 ай бұрын

@@Tetrathegod You cannot turn it off without turning off your computer, uninstall the game.

We need more videos like this 🙌 its sad how some people are ignorant, not researching what they installing and have no care about their privacy 😢

Sounds like the medicine is worse than the disease for sure.

The only thing vanguard does is adding an malicious rootkit, this won't stop cheaters from cheating (as they can create kenal based cheat software which vanguaged can't block or make a custom mouse driver for cheating via arduino for example) instead, it discourages players who value their privacy and the rhight to control one's very own system from playing such games.

@4.0.4

3 ай бұрын

Honestly, AI-based image recognition is good enough that just capturing the screen makes more sense. I hope it happens, just so anti-cheat becomes moot.

@Para0234

3 ай бұрын

@@4.0.4 There's a video on this topic, check out "Hacking into Kernel Anti-Cheats: How cheaters bypass Faceit, ESEA and Vanguard anti-cheats"

@saintskillerdntfkwth

3 ай бұрын

@@Para0234 and yet they somehow eventually still get caught

@rawbmar1166

3 ай бұрын

@@saintskillerdntfkwth There are many people who get away with it for a long long time.

@saintskillerdntfkwth

3 ай бұрын

@@rawbmar1166 yeah maybe with valve anti cheat

I despise vanguard, not from how effective it is, but from the approach that they take to enforcing Vanguard, and how unfriendly Riot in general has been towards the Linux community. In the end it effectively resolves less issues as well, the only thing stopping someone from pwning vanguard in theory is the assumption that people don't know how to write kernel drives as well. Security by obscurity rarely works.

@Scarlet_moon.

4 ай бұрын

Not sure why you think that Riot should care about platform they dont even officially support,linux users that play league are so few that Riot didn't have incentive in past 10 years to even consider going for official support.

@gonzalolog

4 ай бұрын

It's not that hard to make a kernel driver, but enough so people that sees themselves as tech savvy, shows the ignorance (I hope it's ignorance and not just acting dumb) about how and why a "kernel driver" it's needed Nowadays it's pretty easy to compile and run free cheats in league, it's really worrying in fact, the big wall it's understanding how to compile it by yourself And this anticheat makes it way hard (not impossible, you cannot stop hardware cheating as well) But once again, if people wouldn't bitch about something they don't really understand and they think they do, you would understand why riot already lost this battle and how valve it's coming for this in the near future

@Surtr174

4 ай бұрын

@@gonzalolog Vanguard is also ineffective at dealing with cheaters. It, just like every other anti cheat, gets fucked by anyone with a brain coding said cheats. Vanguard was even humiliated on stage to be utterly worthless.

@Dagomii

4 ай бұрын

People say that there's no point caring about Linux gamers. I think it's big mistake, as it's harder for Linux users to make league work, they have to put more effort to play this dumb game. I know from my experience, I've been playing for 10 years recently switch to Linux and all this struggle for nothing. I'm not supporting vanguard, time to quit league I guess 😀

@Shirosaki_Ichigo

4 ай бұрын

@@Surtr174 exactly , so many gad damn hackers on shitlorant , it's not even doing it's job and it's shady as fuck , some extra rootkit malware we don't need on our PCs. Riot even claims it's helps remove smurfs? What a load of bullshit to sway the less informed masses into installing vanguard

I hope we will soon be equipped with hardware level ssd swapping, to boot on completely fresh hardware depending on what we are doing. It's not too hard to make a custom motherboard that does this, please make it a standard soon...

Question: If I play league trough a streaming service(GeForce Now) should I still be voried about doing so when vanguard will come to league or will it be safe since technically its not running on my pc?

@icebird76

4 ай бұрын

Your computer would be safe from the program, but your keyboard and mouse inputs are still being transmitted to the geforce now machine, which vanguard may or may not monitor.

@TTGDeathsbugsy

4 ай бұрын

i dont believe the game will be supported anymore once vanguard is enabled, similar to valorant not being supported currently

@leslyschafer1879

3 ай бұрын

@@TTGDeathsbugsyyep, you wont be able to play league once vanguard gets implemented since GeforeNow runs the games in VMs and Vanguard doesnt let the game run in VM

I am stunned by the degree of intrusiveness some companies (be they Chinese or American) can get away with. This sort of software is a security calamity waiting to happen.

@UhOhUmm

5 ай бұрын

People are tired of cheaters and botters. Surprise.

@Damian-ew1vl

5 ай бұрын

@@UhOhUmm league has very few cheaters, it's extremely easy to detect scripts

@thunderingeagle

5 ай бұрын

@@Damian-ew1vl you do know that Riot also makes Valorant ?

@Damian-ew1vl

5 ай бұрын

Doesn't matter, the discussion revolves around the incoming league anticheat. Not that it excuses vanguard in other games...@@thunderingeagle

@darkmoon7422

4 ай бұрын

@@Damian-ew1vl Exactly. Been playing since the game's inception. Truth be said, scripters are extremaly easy to detect most of the time in league. In fact, you could quite literally just add "overwatch" from csgo and call it a day, without any further changes to anti-cheat. But I guess let's make another useless change that won't help the main issue. What are we even expecting from company that introduced the most predatory EOMM + DDA combo in the industry, to the point even EA is jealous?

I am really glad you covered this. I used to play Valorant a little and it really bothered me, having to boot up windows was also a pain. Sad to see this type of anti cheat is spreading, I don't play LoL myself, but feel sorry for people that do. It is also sad how this anti cheat seems to "work better", even though it can be still bypassed (I don't cheat in online video games) with modding your graphics drivers or something. Sorry for you man.

vanguard is on and i uninstalled lol, i hope many others do aswell, this is crazy that the thing runs in the background and u have to restart the pc if u disable vanguard and u want to play lol, unbelibable.

vanguard is like a backdoor for hackers and riot isn't well known for their security so giving them acces to karnel level will fuck your pc for good... i don't plan to play league if they don't remove this "anticheat"

Honestly considering it's Tencent, there's no surprise if it effectively monitors and collects data behind your back. Still, fuck kernel anti-cheats and especially the ones that run after the game is closed.

@MasterBroNetwork

5 ай бұрын

The data collection is less of an issue only if the anti-cheat runs while the game is open and fully terminates itself when the game client is closed, It is still a severe risk, Can't wait to be completely unable to play Hytale because Riot made Hypixel Studios embed Vanguard anti-cheat into it.

@dankmemes8254

5 ай бұрын

@@MasterBroNetwork now why the fuck would a single player game needs anti cheat system

@MasterBroNetwork

5 ай бұрын

@@dankmemes8254 Are you serious? You do realize that Hytale will also have multiplayer servers as well as the singleplayer modes, right?

@dankmemes8254

5 ай бұрын

@MasterBroNetwork no i wasn't aware it will have multi-player lmao

@wnsjimbo2863

5 ай бұрын

It doesn't run after the game is closed (anymore)

please do talk more about security in games in particular so people are more knowledgable, something that I don't understand quite yet is peer to peer connections and how can they be safe if they can be at all? you're awesome :)

@valkyrie_pilot

5 ай бұрын

All connections are peer-to-peer. There's not a danger for **securely written applications**, and if you only peer to peer with people who you are OK with knowing your vague location (Every website you visit does this).

@dbanfii

5 ай бұрын

​@@valkyrie_pilot Not true. In most online games nowadays, you send and receive data from a server. This means you don't directly connect to other clients in your match and instead the server acts as a middleman. P2P connections in games aren't as safe because they expose your IP address to other players (or peers). This can be circumvented using a VPN though

@valkyrie_pilot

5 ай бұрын

@@dbanfii A server *is* a peer. And your IP address is not dangerous outside of giving your location, unless your router security sucks- but there are bots that scan the entire internet for vulnerable routers, so that won't save you.

@samleevideos

5 ай бұрын

⁠@@valkyrie_pilot When people talk about P2P in gaming, they generally refer to games that run with the peer to peer between players model of networking.

@samleevideos

5 ай бұрын

@@valkyrie_pilotAlso an IP address is definitely sensitive information especially if you’re a high profile gamer because of DDoSes. Happens all the time when a streamer’s IP gets leaked.

I've been playing League since season 1, I currently work as a penetration tester so I can't keep playing the game even if I dedicated a separate PC as a matter of principle and self-respect

Hey, just like many, I took time to read about Vanguard and Kernel when first rumors came up. When you uninstall League, for example, the appdata folder would still store the cache of the client, so simple "add or remove programs" is not enough, really. For those who chose to accept vanguard regardless and decided than that it was too much, would you say that a following riot uninstall guide for vanguard ( which is still just an "add or remove...") is enough?

@reaperzxxtj8759

2 күн бұрын

Users>username>Appdata really only holds save data and configs. The data held in there isn't a concern.

@romansmoll7019

2 күн бұрын

@@reaperzxxtj8759 Understood. However, still the question remains if uninstalling Lol and Vanguard using blindly their uninstall guides is enough to get it out of the system entirely?

Insted of spending server resources to find cheaters, they will corrupt your machine.

@Ttangko_

5 ай бұрын

can you please ellaborate how this would handle skripters? am not so knowledgable here... also bonus question, if i may ask: if I had valorant installed but is now not on the computer, would a data breach and leak of bad actors still affect me and how is this worse than a normal data leak?

@L9Kassadin

5 ай бұрын

Vanguard has full access to your machine, more rights than an administrator. The reason it is worse than a normal data leak is because it pretty much has anything, it scans all your files, programs etc. it collects anything and runs in the background all the time. Vanguard would "protect" league, valorant and other riot games by scanning all your files so you can't script and it may even interrupt innocent files. Riot had a security breach early in 2023 and vanguard can turn off your fans or other things that need to use your pc, i don't think you can install valorant without vanguard so even if you don't play valorant it's running all the time. If you turn it off you have to reboot your pc in order to play league/valorant again@@Ttangko_

@Shulkerkiste

5 ай бұрын

It's not that simple to detect cheaters only on their servers.

@mixed_nuts

5 ай бұрын

This kind of thinking is wild. Make it seem like the issue to fix cheaters is spending money on servers. Vanguard has been one of the most effective anti-cheats out there for a reason.

@L9Kassadin

5 ай бұрын

@@mixed_nuts and prettty dangerous for a reason

And a funny thing to note from outside perspective of a Valorant Sub-Community: There was a time where multiple computers reguarly bluescreened when Valorant was closed. It's safe to assume Vanguard was/is not bugfree. Which is not only a security concern, but may be annoying aswell.

@ANDR0iD

4 ай бұрын

This happened to my co-worker's kid. His PC kept getting BSOD cause of Vanguard.

@bersK00

4 ай бұрын

GOD DAMN IT, I may have been a victim of this as well... it all makes sense now.

@luis64_gamer46

4 ай бұрын

Now it all makes sense why my old pc does loop bsod since i installed valorant.

@Steamgirled

4 ай бұрын

I know many more issues where it just does not work at all

@Melon-el5ln

4 ай бұрын

still persists, i tried playing valorant on an older laptop and whenever i closed the game(sometimes even when started) i got blue screened

well they say you can just turn it off, but is it really turned off when you turn it off?

Looks like this current patch (14.2) is a monitoring phase. Next patch is when they install vanguard. We had a good run, uninstalling too...

I alao hate those school exam monitoring tools which are effectively "Legalized root kits", shit like "Lockdown Browser"

@cheesebucketman1606

5 ай бұрын

It's still extremely closed sourced and way more watered down than this stuff.

2023: LLL has a baby 2024: LLL quits league it's only natural to grow up 🤪

One can only hope Riot is more diligent with fixing bugs in their anti-cheat than in their games

@emptywhy

4 ай бұрын

One can uninstall the game, instead of only hoping that Riot handles your data better than they have their own, having had multiple data breaches, leaking their own source code, losing all of their data. That, or only hoping that their links with the Chinese Government doesn't result in anything nefarious, in regard to your data. Let's not pretend that you have to accept this happening to you, you do not, frankly I think you're absolutely insane if you do.

@TOWGYB

4 ай бұрын

@@emptywhy I'm more so referring to Riot messing up something in the kernel and bricking pc's or locking you out. The data concerns are equally valid though

@Volvary

4 ай бұрын

@@TOWGYB You mean what literally happened when Vanguard came out? Where it was detecting Keyboard drivers or hardware controllers as cheats, disabling them without consent and causing people to lose access to their keyboards completely or their CPU fan completely being disabled and leading to people's PC breaking?

@darkavenger2561

Ай бұрын

@@Volvary "When it came out" Talking about the past when it's completely fine now classic.

where DID you get your hoodie from?

One of the issues here is, even if Vanguard isn't doing anything malicious currently, an update could be pushed with an attack injected through a supply chain attack (ala SolarWinds) and create a really nasty zero-day. Riot games with Vanguard will never touch my machines.

@riftblaze

5 ай бұрын

then just stop Playing Riot games in general, since this may be their goto Anti-cheat for current and new games in the future

@Gramini

4 ай бұрын

Or it could be exploited by other bad actors, similar to how the Genshin Impact "anti cheat" was distributed, auto-installed and then exploited.

@futuza

4 ай бұрын

@@riftblaze that's what I decided to do.

@kanjaloo

4 ай бұрын

riotgames123

@emptywhy

4 ай бұрын

@@Gramini It's not like Riot Games have a history with data breaches, you know, with their source code leaking and all.

I respect Valve's attempt to never install a a rootkit anti-cheat, though I argue they should stop banning people for cheating and instead segregate them from the community, and encourage the cheaters to stick around so they can better track the cheaters from the serverside.

@TheDragShot

4 ай бұрын

Meanwhile Valve: "You get a piece of coal, you get a piece of coal, and _you_ ... you get a highly toxic piece of coal. Now get out of here!" 😂

@SirLightfire

4 ай бұрын

That's an interesting idea Create a honeypot for cheaters

@ardentcabal2581

4 ай бұрын

I've always just thought, if you flag a cheater, don't ban them but give them a separate MMR that only plays with other flagged cheaters. Vanguard is the straw that breaks the camel's back for me right now.

@gonzalolog

4 ай бұрын

But CSGO and cs2 had way more cheaters than league, damn, it's rare to have cheaters on league but on Cs it's every friday

@atrium9597

4 ай бұрын

this idea is actually genius i want this one to happen

Question, would a split between operating systems (Windows/Linux) and only running League on windows, or perhaps a Virtual machine be enough to circumvent this issue?

Game developers lie so often by omission. Blizzard said that gear wouldn't be pay2win in Diablo Immortal, and that was true. It was the gems that you inserted into the gear that was pay2win. So when Riot says they don't collect data but leave out whether or not Tencent does, you can be damn sure that Tencent collects the data.

@sanketower

4 ай бұрын

How come after 4 years of VALORANT (and Riot Games getting hacked) there are no signs at all that they're collecting personal information? You would think that by this time we should already know if they lied or not. Don't get me wrong, I hate Tencent as much as the next guy, but I feel very confident that at least Riot Games are being truthfull about this.

@saintskillerdntfkwth

4 ай бұрын

@@sanketower yeah so much fear misinformation and doubt in this comment section, literally no scandal or any issue has arised from vanguard and there are simple ways to disable it with like 3 lines of code

@yourname-dp8xw

4 ай бұрын

Yea xd you guys are very misinformed and delusional. EVERY company that isn't using open source code will most defeneately steal your data and sell it, be it because the government wants the data or for monetary gain. This is everywhere and will be everywhere. The only way to circumvent this is to use open source stuff like Tor and Linux where there is no incentive to try to steal data and where everyone can make sure that there is no malware. Most big tech companies go into a massive loss each year. How do you think that they make ends meet? The data will be of good leverage for investors and such to make sure that it is worth the cash. Take youtube for example, runs in a definite loss, but it can make it up by basically being spyware that gives info to the highest bidder.@@saintskillerdntfkwth

@skyleite

3 ай бұрын

@@sanketower What signs do you want, exactly? If someone breaks into your house every night and steal things you aren't using so you never notice it, that doesn't mean you're safe

@sanketower

3 ай бұрын

@@skyleite Except that nobody is stealing anything. Because a third party saw through the cameras in your house (the Riot hack) and the guy breaking in has not taken anything (no evidence found from the hack). You guys are making up the story of "Riot is collecting excesive personal information through VANGAURD" and then use it as evidence against VANGAURD. Quite delusional if you ask me.

The fact that these kernel level rootkits (which are supposedly anti-cheat software) are closed source and always running in the background makes it even more creepy.

@snowys4168

5 ай бұрын

How would an open source anti-cheat even work? Genuine question I'm not versed in this sort of thing at all.

@TheHighborn

5 ай бұрын

​@@snowys4168yes.

@gamersworld4176

5 ай бұрын

same question. i think the commenter missed the main point of anti cheats. @@snowys4168

@cob1million

5 ай бұрын

@@snowys4168 Open source making it clear exactly how the anti-cheat detects cheaters might initially make it easier to circumvent, but it also means that a greater community can peer-review the code to verify/improve its resilience (and that it's not doing anything it shouldn't be). The people most motivated to reverse-engineer a closed-source program will most likely be malicious actors who will take advantage of any vulnerabilities they find; being closed-source means trusting the anti-cheat developers (in this case Riot) to play cat-and-mouse behind the scenes to fix exploits as they discover them themselves.

@electricz3045

5 ай бұрын

@@snowys4168 imagine you as a developer working on an closed source project which you obfuscate and then give to users for free, you will be the only one with access to that very sourcecode and so you can't really find every bug yourself, your users may enourage some bugs which you can fix but it won't by no means everything. now pricture yourself as a programmer who releases his sourcecode, freely aviable on github. Now volunteers will read the code and if they find bugs, they will open an github issue and help you to fix it, they may ven do a pull request with the solution implemented by themselve which you just have to analyze and if everything seems good, you can accept the pull request. gnu/linux is opensource, and what do you think, why there is no linux malware but a bunch of windows malware? think about that.

I was aware of the problem since the release of Valorant (in fact even if I really wanted to play it I skipped it for that exact reason) and I find the whole situation creepy. I think that the best way to ensure a fair game in important competitions is to resurrect the gold old "LAN party" and organize them at eSports cafès and other similar venue where hardware and software isn't easy to tamper with but probably for Tencent ensuring a fair game isn't as important as surveillance and fighting cheating is partly an excuse to install rootkits.

@gamersworld4176

5 ай бұрын

games are not limited to 5 persons only now. it connects all of the people world wide. so a LAN party might work in a esport event it wont work in a online multiplayer game

@apprenticerocker9885

5 ай бұрын

@@gamersworld4176 I'm not saying that we should avoid online gaming altogether, just keep online gaming for casual matches and training (where the worst thing the occasional cheater can do is to ruin a match) and do the serious matches (where you can win a place at important tournaments or money) in person

@gamersworld4176

5 ай бұрын

that would just destroy all together. the main appeal of competitive gaming is that everyone can have a taste of hard core try hard competitive mindset. the reason why fighting games never became a popular mainstream esport because the community kept the competitive scene closed to few people and not having people have a taste of the competitiveness@@apprenticerocker9885

@darkmoon7422

4 ай бұрын

@@apprenticerocker9885 or, alternatively, let FACEIT or other 3rd parties run their own rankings. Rito has shown again and again that their predatory use of EOMM and DDA systems disqualify them from creating serious competetive environment in their games.

@JoshuaVilca12

4 ай бұрын

​@@apprenticerocker9885 You are describing basically what has been happening since competitive (online)gaming has been around.

If I am completely reinstalling my operating system or cleaning my SSD, can I remove the installed kernel-level code or Vanguard? I’m a bit new to this low-level stuff and only familiar with surface-level code

I have had a computer just to play games for many years. Not only do I not trust the code of the games I play, but I also don't trust Windows.

Just after we got League working on Linux again... I was on the dev team who got it working again... I'm honestly disappointed in them. There is no reason to require it for anything but the highest level of the game. I can understand requiring it for high tier professional tournaments. But it is a bad thing for just normal play and I personally just play ARAMs... Too bad Riot. I've played for over 10 years. Looks like it's time to move on.

@vyyr

5 ай бұрын

if by the highest level of game you mean GM+, hiring skilled players for peanuts to act as admins is the actual solution to ALL high level issues. But riot will never implement it. Even if it's probably much cheaper.

@fannabeltonakis76206

4 ай бұрын

Never in my life have I seen a cheater in League, probably by pure coincidence and I've been playing since season 1! Is such a deeply rooted anti-cheat necessary to this degree??

@vyyr

4 ай бұрын

@@fannabeltonakis76206 in the recent years in high elo, it became an issue. In the early seasons like 4-5, there were incidents with drop hacks. And no, there is no need for such an invasive anticheat.

This is why i don't play multiplayer games anymore or if there is a online/multiplayer component, i disable it along with anticheat (elden ring for ex). These companies seriously overestimate the appeal of their micro transaction machines and underestimate how many times I'm willing to replay my library

@Ay-xq7mj

3 ай бұрын

Yeah when Starfield came out i pirated morrowind and installed openMW havent completed that save but played enough that i know i like the game and have basic comprehension of the game and could easily beat it. Is probably best RPG world i have played in. I dont really care if the devs/publishers make money on these live service games since i will just pirate old games there are so many countless.

There is also the part it's loaded into memory first before the OS along with giving another way to gain accuss to the machine from hackers

I don't think saying it's a privacy issue goes far enough. Installing Vanguard means that you're trusting Riot, a game dev, with the keys to the castle. And because of that, you're trusting that they have it perfectly locked down. I don't know why we'd trust Riot to do something that even Microsoft has issues with. So many people, especially on Reddit, are being straight up disingenuous by framing it as Riot just getting access to a bit more information. Edit: I was making a metaphor with the "keys to the castle" statement, but as @chriwehl7173 pointed out, it's more like you're giving them every single key to the castle. Whereas playing LoL normally is giving Riot limited access to your "castle", Vanguard is them demanding complete and unlimited access.

@edizsuleyman5285

5 ай бұрын

Literally barely any comments Saying that

@chicogonzales916

5 ай бұрын

The source code for the league client is also out there somewhere.... so easy for a bad actor to reverse engineer it and potentially screw everyone's pc up

@paladynee

5 ай бұрын

riot games employees are still people like you and me. vulnerabilities still exist.

@anon1963

5 ай бұрын

@@chicogonzales916not true

@taylrthegreat

5 ай бұрын

Vulnerabilities will always exist, even on a computer with nothing but chrome installed on it there is still Vulnerabilities, if I want to play game and the tradeoff is potentially my discord chat habits getting to Chinese people I'll just have to take the tradeoff, is it safe not particularly but am I in any real danger compared to just having an internet connection in the first place, not really china can know everything that Google knows about me if they hacked Google and have root access to my pc for me to have less cheaters in my game I've decided the risk is worth it because I don't have much to lose even if China was super evil about it

what more valuable data can they obtain from a kernel level as opposed to a regular anti cheat? I fail to see the issue

@okguzelce

Ай бұрын

It's not about data really, whoever mentions data doesn't help the conversation. It's about security risk and welcoming an additional attack vector. Besides, Vanguard is intrusive and causes minor issues on many systems.

This seems like a really good attack vector against a streamer

"I'm kinda pissed off" - me basically everyday ever since december 2023

I'm in the exact same boat, my friends and i all stopped playing League since this vanguard, it's sad we were having so much fun together... I'm thinking about buying a new computer just for this but the hassle of having 2 computers at one desk is just not worth it for me atm...

I've played League on and off since 2009, uninstalled it a few weeks ago. Feels like a huge weight has been lifted off my psyche. Thank you Riot for helping me kick my LoL addiction!

Using your knowledge for good is always a worthwhile video to watch :)

This actually seems to break a lot of EU Data Privacy laws, particularly in Germany, so I assume there will be some sort of lawsuit that will force companies to not do this. The EU was already successful in forcing Apple to swith to USB-C chargers and tech companies to allow users to repair their products using generic replacements (Right to Repair) so I hope it is only a matter of time before this gets dealt with.

@fitmotheyap

5 ай бұрын

Valorant has had it for a while, all other anti cheats also do this, nothing will happen

@deadsource

5 ай бұрын

@@fitmotheyap Or it will... but about 8-10 years later

@macroxela

5 ай бұрын

@@fitmotheyap the EU court cases took about a decade to go through but they did, eventually. So it's not unlikely

@Sorest2

4 ай бұрын

Nobody is forcing you to play and install their game lol? You don't have a right to play their game protected by EU laws lol.

@macroxela

4 ай бұрын

@@Sorest2 no but any company that wants to do business within the EU has to comply with their regulations. Otherwise, they'll lose access to the EU market which is quite big. Same reason why many companies self-censor based on Chinese laws.

I'm outraged! I just logged in to play, saw a update, now I can't even play. This isn't fair. I have to be on Linux due to my low quality PC and now I can't play at all! :'(

i played this game for 20 months now, and i installed dota 2 and I'm learning it, really started to love it.

Riot cant even add a champion without introducing 200 new bugs, i'm not sure if they have competent enough people to make sure Vanguard is as secure as it can be.

@dredgephantom4212

4 ай бұрын

Valorant hasn't had a single issue with this, how are you going to argue that lol

@yangpaan453

4 ай бұрын

tf are you talking about. Vanguard is widely known to cause blue screen of death in the Valorant community even when the game isnt running. People were posting their system event viewer critical error results en-masse all linking to the vanguard process ID.@@dredgephantom4212

@Jacob_Overby

4 ай бұрын

@@dredgephantom4212 With league's source code leaked + AC last year, it's going to be bad.

@programix8432

4 ай бұрын

@@dredgephantom4212 now that is so strong cope or you are just very very clueless

@Bendzsike

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, let's compare a game that has the same code that some random amatours wrote in 2009 to a much simpler software released in 2021. Please XD

good approach. If someone pisses you off, do not find ways to give them more money. Find a way to abandon them. I developed that skill some time ago - stuff that was a daily staple in my life, overnight became completely irrelevant and as far as I'm concerned they might not even exist anymore. It's a better approach than 'wanting it, but actively forcing myself not to use it', as that approach is causing a lot of anxiety.

What's the issue if you dual boot with Ubuntu/Fedora? If there are any concerns still, even the drive on which linux is installed can be physically disconnected when running windows.

@cassiuscartland

18 күн бұрын

Vanguard is a Kernel level extension, meaning its loaded into your BIOS. So it can affect other OSes. Using a virtual machine it can't affect your main PC.

@Adityarm.08

14 күн бұрын

​​@@cassiuscartland sorry I didn't get your point. BIOS is the firmware burnt on the machine which simply points to bootloaders during startup, right? Not something anyone can edit. Windows itself can't access Linux partitions due to encryption & bifurcation at grub bootloader layer, how can a windows-kernel level program access it then?

@Adityarm.08

13 күн бұрын

​@@cassiuscartland also, note that linux can be installed on external disk which can be configured up in boot order. When linux disk is disconnected physically, it lets windows load. For Vangaurd to access that, it needs literal magic :)

I'm using a Blitz app overlay for LOL, and after this I noticed it's not working and making game crash. Now I think it's connected.

I was just looking at that in my system tray recently thinking exactly this, it's installed on thousands of computers and it's definitely full of vulnerabilities, didn't realize it goes as far as kernel access. That's like instant escalation once exploits are created for it, and like you said tencent is Chinese so there's another huge door they have into all of our tech

@johnwayne-kd1pn

4 ай бұрын

Unlike the Americans who surveillance and spy on everyone and gather everyones private data and use this for criminal activity and criminal wars around the world. But hey, China.. Right?

Same problem for me as a csgo player. I hate the cheaters, but if valve decides to go with a root kit (as some dumb idiots on the reddit want to), I will have to uninstall CS from my computer. Cheaters ruin it for everyone.

@saveborg1091

5 ай бұрын

oh no, they're going to steal all your private DATA that you already posted on the internet, how could i deal with this information!

@matteac_rs

5 ай бұрын

with valve i think is a more reasonable *risk*, but i dont trust tencent. anyways, everyone should be worried about companies running code in kernel mode, it look sooo bad

@Sam-rr4ek

5 ай бұрын

Hey man faceit and esea do their job well

@JmbFountain

5 ай бұрын

Valve said multiple times they don't want to run an invasive anticheat and instead try to move AC to the server. This has the advantage of also being able to work against cheats that don't even run on the same computer as the game.

@ArceusShaymin

4 ай бұрын

@@Sam-rr4ek Did people already forget that ESEA was caught being used to mine bitcoins on their users' PCs? They went to court over it, lost, and even paid a fine. I wouldn't be touching ESEA with a 100-foot pole. Doesn't matter how huge of an apology they made - never touch anything of theirs again if you value your machine's integrity

What's worse is that Tencent owns many over apps, including the very popular WeChat and QQ, which has been sued on multiple occasions due to privacy and data. They also own car brand BYD, which got in trouble for recording people inside the car and selling it for advertising purposes. So... yeh. If you want to play LoL or Valorant, but don't want Vanguard installed on your PC, you can use a Virtual Machine which can't control or see into your PC.

Does the vanguard gets uninstalled if you unilstall league?

@Jan-ux7ht

4 ай бұрын

No you have to uninstall it separately. Even if there are no games installed that need it, Vanguard is still there and it is still running 24/7 on your PC. Same with pretty much every other Kernel level Anticheat

This may have been somewhat out of the ordinary, but it did inform me about anti-cheat software using kernel level drivers, which I didn't know. Good vid, gonna warn friends about this, so thank you.

Good job on spreading awareness on this issue.

The TPM 2.0 requirement just made everyone with PCs 5+ years old not able to play it

are you safe from vanguard if you de-install it? i heard i cannot be fully deinstalled.

@n0tjak

3 ай бұрын

you can't

I'm sure anticheat is super tricky, but people need to figure out how to do it server side, you shouldn't need to invade someones pc to supervise them just for a bloody game...

@SomeDudeInBaltimore

5 ай бұрын

But that would require extra resources on the corp's part, and that eats into profit, and we just can't have that.

@wnsjimbo2863

5 ай бұрын

Or you cant stop play the game if you don't like anti cheat

@johanngambolputty5351

5 ай бұрын

@@wnsjimbo2863 Or you can just let random strangers in your house if you don't like boundaries

@TeamSprocket

5 ай бұрын

@@wnsjimbo2863 I'm sorry your addiction to a video game has removed all sense of privacy and risk.

@Topunito

4 ай бұрын

The cheaters are using programs that make their inputs for them. How the fuck would you detect this from the server side?

Riot's audience is the same as Rockstar's audience, they complain but end up consuming everything that is thrown in their face. And so nothing changes.

@MidasButSilver

5 ай бұрын

Its not just this audience, that audience. Its gamers in general, always complain and say you will refuse to accept something in a game but fear of missing out will make them continue playing. No backbone will be shown. Its like that one time a call of duty game was planned to be boycotted by a huge steam group of players because they demanded dedicated servers, that then played the game anyway on day of release.

@snowys4168

5 ай бұрын

@@MidasButSilver Ever since DLC was introduced in 2006 gaming has been dead

@apprenticerocker9885

5 ай бұрын

Sadly most "company audiences" are like that: from The Pokèmon Company to Apple

@cameronbosch1213

4 ай бұрын

​@@apprenticerocker9885Nintendo is by far the worst.

Can’t you run LoL/Valorant in a VM/container? And would that make sense?

just curious, could this be circumnavigated by running a VM then installing league on that or would that not work?

@canodepvc2837

4 ай бұрын

Maybe Vanguard can detect its a VM

@yama007

3 ай бұрын

What is the difference for cheater to use this ? To generate new serial numbers etc and creating new account once banned ? Whatever you think is solution for yu is also solution for cheaters.

I might be really off topic, but, can we get a gaming stream (or even, multiple) later on?

Windows should only be run in a VM or some sandbox setup.

@DaveMacara89

5 ай бұрын

Based.

@severgun

5 ай бұрын

there is no difference between mac, linux and windows. Open source does not mean that code had any security audit or even code review. Also anticheats do not work in VM

@kermitdafrog8

5 ай бұрын

@@severgun open source means the source code is open for code review. It's up to you to review the code. There is a lot of difference between Linux and Windows.

@anon1963

5 ай бұрын

stop with linux meat riding

@flintfrommother3gaming

5 ай бұрын

@@severgun Tell that to the University of Minnesota.

I have separate computer with separate boot drives to just boot to clean installation of windows that contains only i.e. epic games or valorant or any game made by tencent that is on steam, by using cheap elgato capture card I can just open OBS and play the game with little latency plus can always stream games to friends on discord where some games just dont let you to do so without going to windowed mode.

Where you get your hoodies?

Not the first but also not the last company that is moving in this direction.

i thnk you should install vangurad on an extra PC and try to see what it actually does. Especially, what does it do when the game isn't even running.

You could use an HDD Switch, means two SSD in the same computer but you choose witch one is active by switch power on/off. Like that you can have 2 ssds with windows one for work one for gaming. The disadvantage is you can´t be 100% secure against an attack on uefi.

thanks for talking about this topic, there's not much people doing this kind of content, so, if you have multiple drives on the same pc, with different OS (and/or different users on each OS), do you still are affected by this on the other OS? or playing on a VM would have the same effect as another drive with another OS and we could bypass the kernel problem maybe? what I'm trying to say is you're not forced to build another computer just to play x or y game???

Hasn't Vanguard been hot-topic for a while already? Was it running in the fps game produced by riot games?

@vilian9185

5 ай бұрын

yes, it's n valorant

@Jyukenmaster95

5 ай бұрын

that's what i'm wondering. I thought the community was already talking about this a few years ago is this some kind of reupload?

@vyyr

5 ай бұрын

@@Jyukenmaster95 there used to be no vanguard for league.

@cameronbosch1213

4 ай бұрын

​@@vyyrYeah, SomeOrdinaryGamers talked about it when Valorant was released and told people not to play it. Hopefully people actually listen this time.

Yes, this is not one of your usual videos indeed but I'd like to thank a lot for it, I'll try to help spread the news as well. This is just outrageous.

How about disabling it through cmd? I did a bit off looking around and found out that u can disable the auto start for it.

@TheGrundigg

Ай бұрын

You can disable auto start ups in task manager too...

I gave up league quite a while ago. Though, as a software engineer (not much knowledge beyond the basics of security e.g. buffer overflows) is there a reason you couldn't install a VM and play it through there? Does this anticheat only work on Windows? With the right setup, could a VM running whatever flavor of linux contain the anticheat? Would it still have some have some access that would leak through a VM?

@kolliwanne964

4 ай бұрын

Vanguard only runs on windows and because it has to boot up with your operating system VMs just dont work at all. interestingly you simply DONT NEED any Vanguard if you have a MacOS because it is "not necessary and more secure" (aka, Riot doesnt want to loose the playerbase and are too lazy to code). So maybe you could use a VM of some MacOS that is up to date and it would not ask you to run Vanguard.

I'd love to see more videos delving into cheats, anti-cheats, and other shady kernel-level programs

Vanguard decided my sound driver was a virus

They said that mac users won't have to install Vanguard. So i am thinking, what if we run a mac VM on arch?

I have no idea of any of this but what happens if you play in a virtual box ?