But that's no good either, because I'll just install a clean version and point the hash function to it.Īlright, but what if we run the hash on the representation of the program as it currently exists in RAM? Either the part of the representation we're looking at is static (in which case, precompute the hash or compute them from a dead copy on disk) or it is dynamic, in which case we're going to have to run a different install in parallel to extract the hashes from. If we're talking always-online stuff, the server might ask you to initialize the hash with a random number, in which case you're going to have to replicate the computation.
I'll just write a variant that for every section simply has the correct code hard-coded. So you'll have a function hash(section or slice or whatever) -> hashcode. What I'm proposing looks more like hacking the function that determines the checksum. A secure checksum algorithm will read all the data, compute the checksum and you won't be able to produce a different code that has the same sum, nevermind producing one that allows you to cheat.
We've had multiple external security research teams review it for flaws (we don't want to accidentally decrease the security of the computer like other anti-cheat drivers have done in the past).There are concerns regarding the moderators of the Valorant subreddit being employees of Riot itself and potentially censoring anti-Valorant posts/comments.Wanted to note that there is at least one group intentionally spreading anti-Vanguard propaganda according to this.Riot is owned by Tencent who has involvement with the Communist Party of China.The most used example video of stuttering in World of Warcraft before and after uninstalling Vanguard Vanguard may impact the performance of or cause problems with other games (mixed answers from people regarding being unable to start certain games or FPS issues.
See below for some of the important points.
I probably need an expert to weigh-in on this bullet-point Being on Ring 0 leaves you open to a back door or other vulnerabilities for malicious hackers.ESEA had an incident which involved one employee implementing a bitcoin miner.Not all of those anti-cheat systems run on Ring 0, some of them run only on Ring 2 (not sure about this, only read one comment that mentioned this).Other games that use anti-cheat also run on the kernel-level like BattlEye, Easy Anti-Cheat, ESEA, FACEIT.I'll try to summarize the important points/concerns (note that I'm not 100% sure on some of these and they aren't all directly related to Vanguard): I also am not for or against the game at this time since I'm still trying to collect information before I make a decision. I'm not a security expert so I was actually hoping for more information regarding the Ring 0 thing, but I've been reading as much as I can about the stuff people are saying.