Easy anti-cheat appears as a windows service with a manual start. That means it is a kernal-level program and as such can be used by nefarious actors to access and control your machine. Is this silly game important enough for me to permit anyone to run around on my machine? I sure am not rich enough to have a separate gaming pc. https://www.howtogeek.com/the-latest-anti-cheat-technology-is-controversial-heres-why/#Echobox=1723459740
Majority of big games use Kernal Level Anti-Cheats. The difference between Easy Anti Cheat and Vanguard (which is the one everyone is making a big deal of) is Vanguard is always running and Easy Anti Cheat only runs when the game with said Anti-Cheat is running. Thats the difference, now idk if that makes you feel anymore safe but thats the difference. Alot of other big game uses either Easy-Anti Cheat or BattleEye which are both technically Kernal level Anti-Cheats, games that dont run them for example CSGO have huge cheating issues. CSGO’s cheating issue is 5x bigger than War Thunders and thats because they dont run a Kernal Level Anti-Cheats therefor literally someone with no coding experience can make a cheat and not have to worry about Anti-Cheat.
Also these Anti-Cheats even though they are Kernal Level dont make you any less secure. If someone really wanted the information from your PC they would get it by other, easier means.
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Run Linux then. Be it dualboot or otherwise
As far as i understand EAC will run and not in kernel mode.
Yes kernel level or lower Anti-cheat is dumb, but people will grasp anything they think will reduce the amount of cheaters.
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There is a separate EAC thread, please use it.