Steam store pages received a new Anti-cheat field. Disclosure is mandatory for kernel-level anti-cheat solutions. And recommended for other anti-cheat solutions (like server-side or non-kernel-level client-side).
The field discloses the anti-cheat product, whether it is a kernel-level installation, and whether it uninstalls with the product or requires manual removal to remove.
Don’t they mean malware?
No
I’m assuming the user meant all kernel level anti-cheat is malware
I’m sure they did and it’s not. Malware isn’t defined by its privileges but what it does.
Spyware steal your data, look the same to me
How do they steal your data? They also said malware
I’ve been a heavy competitive gamer for 10 years now, kernel anticheat has been an incredible blessing developed these last few years despite every non-player calling it malware. Meanwhile all the consistent players rejoice and newer players don’t have to deal with constantly wondering if someone’s hacking every single lobby.
You can see just how much this has directly impacted high elo League of Legends players via Riots dev blog after their implementation. The most notable:
more than 10% of Master+ games had a cheater in them.
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This comment is at best confusing and at worst an attempt at an insult. Please try to be clearer in the future, as well as be(e)ing nice.
Does anyone actually have a suggestion for a less intrusive alternative?
Do you realise how difficult and ineffective server-side anti-cheat can be?
Although it would be the only way to actually try and detect someone using a second machine for hacking/inputs.
All of this will become an increasingly uphill battle for the devs.Write it in language that obfuscates code by default (Rust does that) and then it obfuscates again. Or do it the Valve way. Even though is very easy to crack their anticheat (the hacks and DLL injectors are basically for free both on Windows and Linux), they have other measures in place. E.g. Votekicking players, Overwatch and matchmaking against other hackers.
where did you read it that rust obfuscates the code?
you want vmprotect and such for that
If security analysts have issues decompiling Rust malware, then it’s obvious that it obfuscates the code. All they could get was an ugly Assembly. You can try it yourself by downloading Ghidra/Cutter/any other compiler.
