Is Valorant Spyware? 

Yes although that could be true, cheats can be ran at any time. There is a popular way for cheat devs to inject their cheats and that is before you even boot into windows. Valorant has the best anti-cheat hands down, but for it to be as good as it is they need it to be running 24/7. Face it is also good but not as good as vanguard

@@antivaxxtoaster8919Best anti cheat? I’ve played Valorant for a couple of months after release on my old machine and it was the game where I encountered the most cheaters ever in my life in any game lol, I even added a guy and he didn’t get banned for a shit ton of time, all of this while that garbage is perma on Edit: forgot to add, the anti-cheat is so shit most of people had to do some weird shit to just have Valorant work in the first place, changing settings, booting a certain way and whatnot. What a great piece of software Vanguard has always been. Oh yeah let’s also add how shit it has been on League of Legends too (they are forcing it there too, weirdly) where they wanted to add it months ago yet it’s only active in the Philippine servers currently cause of the insanely high amount of bugs and issues it had on the PBE. For MONTHS now. Best anti cheat tho💀

@@skiry_7207 nah i'd win

@@skiry_7207 Maybe you had a bad experience with vanguard, I'm not sure. Me personally I've been playing on and off for over 3 years and only ran into one rage cheater that got banned within 7 rounds, but thats besides the point. I know first hand that vanguard has one of the hardest anti-cheats to reverse engineer, I haven't tried it myself but I know people who have so I can't really tell you if their spying on us or not. Vanguard were one of the first anti-cheats to really crack down on DMA devices, they are really the only companies that give a shit about cheaters, they are the only anti-cheat to my knowledge that has bug bounty program and will pay out if you find a bypass. Riot games is owned by a Chinese company as he pointed out which does seem very bad, so take that as you will but they have the best anti-cheat hands down and they are the only anti-cheat who actually cares about getting rid of cheaters also as a side note when you're reversing the anti-cheat they have a photo of their team and a invite to apply for a job to work for them if you're talented enough.

@@skiry_7207 stop with the Hollywood motherfuker , i have been playing the game since its 1month and i can confirm playing agianst 3 cheaters and i aint even lost no rr , game cancels 3/3..

I need a medium answer.

@@techaddictdudeis yes

@@CrushedCoaching71011it’s*

​@@techaddictdudemhm

@@techaddictdude yh

Hey bro! You know what, you should publish your investigations and make people aware of this fact!

​​@@gigaheheboilol the thing already shared in most of telegram PUBG cheat channel

Let me know if you have published any articles on this.

Bring it to your authorities.

Yo man can we do a collab on this situation..we can both post it to our channel..

yeah, because vanguard is an anticheat.

For Riot their Games, not for Tarkov as example

So… you are trying to say that vanguard is affecting the binary code of cheats… ??? I think you don't know how anti cheats works…

Well I know enough to acknowledge that it's weird that the Anti Cheat of Valorant is so strong that it kills of cheats for other Games.

@@imhyouka8101 bro you said nothing in a whole sentence, you cannot inject cheats into other games if you have vanguard on because it flags them, i guess you never had vanguard on your pc

True,They use valve anti-cheat

@@marcelbromm2625 Oh yeah they banned for using stuff

But doesn't a server side anticheat suck?

@@NightRaven5568Not necessarily. It can actually be more effective than Kernel-level AC, but also requires the studio to hire a team whose job is to break the cheats down to their assembly code and write heuristics based on the Assembly..... but they'd rather pay less to build/buy kernel-level AC than to build server-side heuristics. Also, Self-hosted servers with community admins are the best kind of AC, but it also takes away the ability of the publisher to end support and force players to the next game.

@@marcelbromm2625 As a CS2 cheater I must agree

sounds like rootkit sypware to me. like why does it need to run 24/7 or else it bricks your system.

It's a rootkit, windows firewall wont help here, only if you setup firewall on your router it will have any sense.

​​@@kidnamedfinger.productionsreflash bios or run rkhunter with lynux is an option i mean

I remember this vividly but, I heard that even after uninstalling Valorant, it's anticheat (rootkit) still remains on your system.

​@@Sunrise-d819i2Fr

riot is not gonna be seeing my 5 terabytes of media

Cool bro, go gamble some money on cases while seeing cheaters every game in the most hacked game in the world. Meanwhile i'll be queing valorant, with the best anticheat in the world currently. Enjoy getting maphacked on every game at high mmr in CS.

@@mis8866 this is peak copium. "I'm so addicted that I'm willing to throw away personal security so I can get my cartoon shooting game dopamine hit"

@@joeybarela363 valorant players always defend their game with all their life

​@@pixelsavant1 Honestly i can understand why people are angry about that but lets be honest 5 sec : Vanguard is not the only one to do that and we can't (valorant players ) do anything to correct this problem ,except unistall the game but that mean we won't play it anymore unless we like the game.

Shit games btw

Which means if you are running windows you are fucked before even downloading valorant lol.

Just imagine Tim Sweeney telling you that the attack surface on Linux is just too big. When you can easily defeat their kernel mode anticheat by halting and resuming the initiating process when the driver is loaded.

​@@MrDT2012we already knew that.

@@sjoervanderploeg4340 that’s the point LOLOL

MOOD

spying on your soul to see what skins you'll buy

Truer than the absolute truth itself

Fr,The skins will hit headshots much more and are expensive

if you're way too weak and somewhat rich, lol

I'm glad I quit. Was hooked for 2 years and spent a lil over 500 euro's. I can't believe it myself.

@@Shouko91 LMAO

@@Shouko91 I'm still grateful that you finally quit it though.

@@Shouko91 you could have got a m9 bayonet

@@dinosharttt other trash game that is even worse, people that just play cuz of gamble addiction LOL

Holy shit I’m having a problem like that. When you uninstalled Valorant was it fine?

Riot responded to this issue saying the drivers that Razer devices require were so bad that cheaters could trivially inject cheats into the driver and circumvent Vanguard so Vanguard just blacklists that driver from functioning properly. Razer also is a non-US company that requires you to run software 24/7 to get basic features of your devices working, but let's ignore that.

​@@Nors2Ka GPU drivers allow the same thing.

@@Nors2Ka I don't like SteelSeries GG but at least I am not forced to keep it open 24/7

@@Nors2Ka Not kernel mode drivers i assume?

I mean, that is how every game both in US and China has to do business, by ‘sending information’. You are going to have to be more specific in motive for maliciousness.

@@twenty-fifth420factually incorrect. Do you have to submit your data to the US government everytime you log into COD? No you don’t because that’s ridiculous, however all Chinese games MUST send their data to the CCP. Learn about the topic before distributing misinformation

Does that mean the chinese government knows all of my lose streak?

damn china knows alot about me

@@twenty-fifth420the US government needs a proper warrant to receive information from companies relevant to criminal cases. The Chinese government just needs to tell them to fork everything over. Naturally the US government could also buy information from companies, but that isn’t a forced transaction.

You forgot the part where they don't care, their game having no cheaters is more important than user security

If more companies will be install more anti-cheats like this. Aftertimes begin approached peoples which liked you full cash on card or you own computer. I think need block like this programs

You need a agency to be allowed to run debug versions and review code at this level problem solved

@@shroomer3867 No cheaters? Valorant has more cheaters than any other game beside CS:GO probably.

@@kidnamedfinger.productions I meant it as in what they want. I know there are cheaters in Valorant, sorry for not clarifying.

Cause he closed the anti cheat. Most games won't work if you turn off anti-cheat, because you know.. it's an anti cheat.

@@untitledmisouthere’s this thing called ‘reading’ and ‘understanding the text’. It’s a hard skill to learn and im sure you’ll manage to do so

​@@untitledmisou cmon bro valorant fan base cannot defend this one, its crazy how it rus while your pc is off!

your boyfriends pc is just shit

there's is no bf here opsie woopsie 🤭

Nice pfp lol

@@PedroHenrique-wo6pn hello handsome

Smoking gun lmao

Skill issue I think

Hey! Had that same issue, just had to leave a pc off for a while, came back and it worked.

@@slawnyfivemowiec dont worry :D I'm not coming back to it. Just wanted to share my experience. But thank you for the heads up :)

I've never had to do any of that lol

Valve doing anything is funny (VAC is pretty dogshit), but shoutouts to the community

So CS fanboys will say it's cool if community made kernel anti cheat collects all the data and sells it but not RIOT? lol Riot doesn't even collect data.

@@deivytrajanmore like massive indifference since most people can and will just play on the official client, avoiding kernel level AC entirely. If you don’t want kernel level AC to play Valorant? Tough shit, you can’t even launch the game.

@@deivytrajan I don't play CS2 nor Valorant, but I think no game should have kernel-level access to your machine. Also, I don't know if Riot or FACEIT collect data.

also another thing to mention, with FACEIT they have far less motives to monitor your PC, with it being just an esports platform and the company was found in London. Riot however, is technically owned by the Chinese Goverment, who would benefit from having everyone's data from all over the world.

Cinque Terre

I sure hope you didn't think I was Iran😅 That flag is Italian

There was a dude who said Cinque Terre, but I can't see his comment anymore. I wanted to thank him for being a goated user of this platofrm

no offense but i never understand this quote valorant is free to play (i don't play Valorant btw i have never even installed it) so it means it should have microtransactions so thats how they make money so it's not free technically...

@@Pakistani890 it is free, you can go download it, install it and play while never making a transaction.

they sell skins, real gamers hate naked guns

acts like malware, uses ring0 rootkit techniques, runs the entire time your pc is running, owned operated and used by the chinese communist party. Nah i think its just an anti cheat to ban cheaters 🤓🤓🤓

so every AV ever is a virus? logitechs software is a virus? all of nvidia's drivers are a virus? Vanguards not doing much different than any of those

This is the best mindset when it comes to security.

I've had valor ant installed on and off for 4 years and nothing has happened, why worry so much, I guarantee the Chinese has sold you're data already regardless of having the anti cheat or not

@@wlockuz4467 The problem is that the average person on RU-vid has no clue what malware is and that's why they watch a video of some random guy hoping he's gonna say what they're already thinking

This is something everyone already knew, but as he pointed out it's important to make the distinction in behaviour: while faceit installs a kernel driver you can shut it down and turn it back on at your whim, as opposed to valorant which really strongly nudges you into having it on 24/7 and making it extremely inconvenient to not have it on.

@@xFluing ah I see, I never personally played valorant or any other shooter games on pc, and I don't face myself towards the gaming industry too much so this is new information to me, but I am glad people were already aware of such thing.

@@xFluing Everyone minus many that didn’t know, isn’t everyone. It is similar to “never except…”.

​@@antman7673☝️🤓

@@xFluing Except that you got it the wrong way round, when you disable vanguard, it unloads the driver, FACEIT driver runs 24/7 regardless if you have the anti-cheat on or off. Not being able to just unload and load drivers is extremely important for a kernel AC.

you just contradict yourself

@@alberthcheong5477 in what way? i'm saying there's no need to add something to automatically detect cheating because you can obviously tell if someone is due to how uncommon it is

@@hayden6700 Cheating become more noticeable precisely because the anti-cheat is effectively doing its job, highlighting the negative side more prominently. often overshadowing its positive side.

@@hayden6700 while it is an obvious solution. an obvious solution is often the worst solution.

@@alberthcheong5477 but there hasn't been an anticheat in league ever until a few days ago so your point makes no sense

I mean you can manually make it not start like every other application

same.

FAANG are just as bad as tencent...

e-e

you can play valorant through a VM, OrdinaryGamers has a video about it

Your data is already out there. At least you know this devil.

Just uninstall the game xd

@@sx1805 Uninstalling the game unsurprisingly does not uninstall vgc.

​@@sx1805 the only way to uninstall it is go into settings and then apps. the thing is the game doesnt uninstall at all even after a reboot. the true way of uninstalling is deleting the game folder, uninstalling vanguard and then riot client itself

go to control panel, uninstall valorant and then it will ask you to uninstall vanguard aswell, do so, then delete the riot client alongside with any other games.

use revouninstaller to remove it completely

He didn’t use anything fancy, just regular Wireshark and Microsoft’s Process Explorer

I think he uses porcess explorer and TCPview and maybe some NirSoft utilities.

It's a very sad thing.

Its out, and now I finally have a perfect excuse to my friends to quit.

the genshin impact scandal

​@@il_panda1979 whats that

Yeaaa and then i play 2games of cs and rb6 and i get insta spinboting in cs and obvious walls in rb 6 oh and dont get me even started about tarkov 😂😂 i have never encountered a cheater in valorant in 2 years of playing.

@@callmenik1298 And what has that to do with what he said?

@@callmenik1298 the reason theres no cheaters is cuz everyone is fucking scared of the anticheat actually just bricking their computer. one day we will decompile the anticheat and its just gonna have a dedicated function to just wipe your hard drive

so ture, most of the people is not smart enough to understand this...

i have a friend too and he does not even care about it, he literally saying "everyone is stealing the data".

🤓 actually vanguard is currently only on the philippines server so if your friend is not playing on that server he does not need vanguard to be installed to play league

league does not use vanguard

@@COLAdg for now...

china actually wants access to the 5 dollars in your bank

valorant sends everything about your config to tencent in the TB range from advertising data to last windows install date, if the game is running it doesn't send anything and functions purely as an anticheat, if you make online payments specifically for riot skins it's reported, other transactions are logged but are disregarded, it also sends more data if it suspects you are using a vpn, riot also keeps a log of if you're browsing their secret list of account selling websites with an IP kept, some of it is security through obfuscation source: nothing, this is just baseless speculation I was hoping someone else could contribute

@@trektncome on I read your message hoping to get a source and its just nonsense

@@FlazuelJr some of it is plausible, riot won't tell us what they check or do so cheaters can clean up their footprint in those areas so it's not a completely bulletproof anticheat if you know the right things to hide. Some of the things they are actually checking is DMA devices if you potentially did something cheaty but possess a device that can freely edit memory

i remember BD had issues with Valo when it first came out lol

@@LynKazoyuu Lol

Windows itself blocks the Vanguard driver if you have "hardware-enforced stack protection" turned on, and this is supposed to be a security feature.

@@mosti72 Oh you mean the same anti-tamper protection that also stopped EAC and Battleye from working? Or let me guess, you didn't do enough research to know that most major AC's were affected?

@@unearthlynarratives_ Did I ever say that it only exclusively blocks Vanguard? FYI, I've had similar experiences with other anti-cheat software, and I'd say the worse I had experienced so far is nProtect. My point is that the Windows anti-tampering mechanisms itself doesn't like these anti-cheat software.

Same question

It does turn off when you click exit, as far as I know. Most people are to lazy to exit every time they turn on their pcs

Someone with critical thinking skills in the comments? You can't be here lol You're completely right. It makes perfect sense that it works and runs the way it does. Most people just use the word rootkit as a buzzword because you can farm clicks from people who wouldn't change their opinion even if the AC was found to be safe. Riot would be stupid as hell to use this to steal anything from its users. Their reputation would not just go out the window but they would also be in trouble legally.

its a good excuse but there are surely other workarounds. also the anticheat doesnt work properly and people are still cheating so there is that...

@@uros7320 I mean no defensive system is going to ever be bulletproof. Anti cheat development is a game of cat and mouse. Also, i agree with you on their being other methods, just playing devils advocate for the purpose of providing food for thought

@@Kosaii- ye i understand that completely but then why be so invasive when even that much isnt goign to bring you back to where you were a few years ago + a lot of peopel wont play the game just because of that. and now the same is going to happen for league. in my 8 years of playing league i have never met someone who was scripting but now they are supposedly all over high elo so that is why everyone in low elo is forced to have this invasive anticheat on 24/7. makes no sense. they should do something similar to how valve treated csgo. you were allowed to type in a launch command that dissables some parts of the anticheat so you could have programs like discord, faceit and nvidia overlays on during the game, but beacuse of that there are slightly bigger chances of you meeting cheaters, like you are put in sepparate queues from people who dont have that command on, but then again most people prefer to put on filters while playing cs so everyone would have that command on and there was no purpose for the change to make game more clear of cheaters, when its quite clear what the playerbase values more, and i feel like the same woudl go for league. the only peolpe that have problems with cheaters are people in the top 1000 in each reason so a total of less than 10k people, and because of that dozens of millions will have to have invasive anticheat on...

@@uros7320 that's just dishonest. No one has ever claimed that valorant is cheater free and riot never claimed vanguard would do that. How about not making a bad faith argument because you're too uneducated to actually think of something that makes sense.

Is it just me thinks there's an alternate earth where all softwares want ring 0 kernel access to avoid being cheated / 🏴‍☠ If all softwares are ring 0 kernel access, no one is.

​@@MangaGamify iirc back in the DOS days a lot of programs get to access the hardware directly (aka ring-0)

​@@MangaGamify also if everyone have access to ring-0, the next goal would probably be ring -3 lmao

@@MangaGamify that's why TempleOS exists

Same can be said for Microsoft drivers, AMD, Nvidia?

With a half comprehensive firewall, you can set up logging and rules to do just that. The dream machine pro is a pretty good one if you like Unifi products.

@@ahabsbane this is a good suggestion, but it still can accumulate data when there's no internet access and send it right after you start playing the game, essentially unblocking the firewall.

I mean, you just saw those connections in wireshark, the game was not running.

@@pcsecuritychannel well... It definitely means it's totally not a spyware =)

@@anispinner this is not about blocking it from spying - but about clues if it actually does that. If it sends something when the game is not even running - does that mean something?

yeah its safe

Its safe either way tbh, this video is quite bad, things like cs go have a worse anti cheat but basically do the same thing.

What? That literally doesn’t make sense, are you just running out of space on your computer?

yeaahh but so is like every big corporation

yea racist

@@johnli7818 wtf

@@ingohregg688 yeah, but difference being Tencent is from China, and lets not fking pretend that China goverment isnt way worse than some others big corporations (unless we are talking about the US) And screw anyone that thinks that this is somehow ""racist""

@@johnli7818 what?....

havent had anything shut down and havent heard a word about the ac causing issues might just be a hardware issue on their end

How many blatant cheaters do you encounter in your games though? I encountered only one in more than 400h of playtime, and the cheater was actually banned mid-game. Nobody complains about cheats in ranked, that's how trusted Vanguard is regarding banning cheaters. Maybe it's spyware idk, but regarding banning cheaters, it does a good fucking job.

@@namufoxy LOL most ppls cheat with simple AHK scripts that aren't even recognized by anticheat. That is a sad fact. They just want you to believe it god tier anticheat when in reality it's just there to farm your data. Don't be stupid my guy, who wanna cheat will find a way.

​@@namufoxymaybe because some people closet cheat or arent as oblivious to cheating, closet cheating is ALWAYS seen and is really easy to do when you have experience actually

​@@user-zd3iz3xx6k Nope in Vanguard most (if not all) memory injection cheats are detected quite easily. The cheats that people use usually involve a PCI device and a second computer to read the data, for less serious cheats like radar cheats. The aimbots most Valorant cheaters use are Machine learning image recognition HID-based cheats, that provide mouse inputs based on where the enemies are on the screen. I am NOT justifying vanguard's level 0 previleges, I'm just writing some facts for clarification

@@asldfkhjaslk all that yappin but the only blatant cheat in there is aimbot, everything else is used for closet cheating

Not if its encrypted with a public key that you have locally on vanguard, but needs a private key to decrypt, how most cryptology works. You cant decrypt using a public key.

If you reverse engineer you can just pick the package before it sends and encrypts. You could also do a man in the middle attack, pretending your riots severs, allowing you to receive the message. You only dont know what they do with the data. Most of the arguments he made they where all kinda ehhh. Main reason why valorant runs with startup is to ensure you dont have cheat drivers installed (these are invisible to anti cheat if the anti cheat starts after this driver)

Tencent owns EA therefore they also own apex/Respawn...

Counterstrike 2 anticheat is the same malware rootkit(faceit)

your data has been sold to the youtube 😂

theyre in your walls. u nder your skin. ... inside your brain .. . . . wake up . . . . . . . john google is onto you..

​@@EfeDursun125data is being sold everywhere, i mean idgaf if youtube sells my name or password, f*** tencent its just personal hate

get a fresh install of windows you still have the backdoor

delete vanguard too if possible

Oh! Didn't know that! Thanks

That sucks but as a Linux User I'm sure you're skilled enough to make your OS secure boot compatible ;)

You can just install windows 10 and ditch the trash that is windows 11, i dualboot arch+win 10 and no secure boot is required.

fedora, ubuntu, debian and linux mint all have secure boot support, but it can get dicey if you use the nvidia drivers that arent part of the main OS.

This is why you use open suse.

Unless you have value in your pc doesent matter at all I

@@corpingtons in every situation you have something value in your pc)

​@@yrmuqif i had a pc for gaming i would specifically make it so theres nothing of value on it and i would have it on a separate network because video games are chalk full of malware and online games open yourself to network attacks from easily angry gamer script kiddies.

​@@ricerice245you are just hating on video games 😂 and spitting random accusations around

​@@ricerice245just say you don't like to play games

i play the game but i feel like these are one of the things everyone should be aware of with such a delicate topic as data collecting

You can use another device that acts as a hardware proxy that monitors the connections. Did that a few years back when Vanguard was new, and it still made those connections *after* it was "uninstalled". Those requests did not appear when trying to monitor the network on the infected device itself, meaning Vanguard hides itself, but is still there.

isnt this just wireshark? which he is showing in the vid, the problem is that Vanguard is running 24/7 regardless of whether you play the game, and it has Kernel level access. Tencent is notably a massive internet technology company in China, and in order for such a company to exist, they need to have deep ties with the Chinese Communist Party. This is what had gotten TikTok into a lot of trouble causing a reshuffle in management. And even now the US government believes Tiktok’s parent company is monitoring and storing user data.

You think anti-cheat will communicate with server using https lol? Anyway, even if you bring up a local DNS server, most likely the traffic will be encrypted, so the best solution is reverse-engineering and find encryption method before send and after recv.

@@partoftheworlD I doubt it uses plain HTTP…

cs' anticheat is a joke

yea none of them works lmao thats why you need vanguard

@@johnli7818 huh

@@ze_diddle_v3 have you played those games? I invest thousands hours in Cs, hundred hours in cs2 and thousand hours in apex. They are flooded with cheater. Imagine the pro league of Apex legend NA tournament got hack mid game literally! That tells you what EAC is capable of nothing.

@@johnli7818 always been like that all you goota do is pray god not to have cheaters in your game we ll been there i have 5k hours in cs and 2k in apex i play them a lot

It was making my computer restart immediately after shutting down Vangard, so i couldnt use my computer at all unless I left it running, the games not good enough to deal with that, so its gone forever lol

you dont have to restart your pc for faceit AC to work you just have to load it up and restart your game

Simple redundancy check would solve the vac bypass issue which u mentioned in ur edit ? Dont u think ?

apparently, anything you do to it gives you a BSOD. certainly wise to have such unstable software in your kernel.

@@guguigugu Ah yes, totally not a rootkit

@@shroomer3867 You're so delusional, drivers are specifically made to BSOD you if you tamper with them. They will have hooks on debugging flags and any changes made to the driver will cause a BSOD. That's how every single AC driver works, they BSOD you to prevent cheaters from reverse engineering it further.

@@guguiguguYou don't test software stability by disabling shit it needs.

@@ehqwk thats exactly how you do it

prob riot client

dude riot is not fucking spying on you. you uninstalled valorant, not riot client, just uninstall riot.

@@omniyx7837 that's the thing, I don't have riot installed

Well yeah Vanguard goes hard you are almost guaranteed to get banned from Valorant in the first 30 minutes-1 hour of using cheats a friend of mine was in a comp game that ended because someone turned on their cheats it is a necessary evil otherwise the ranked games would be filled with nothing but cheaters

Finally someone reasonable that doesn't parrot the same shit all these idiots do. I applaud you for having critical thinking skills dude

Vanguard is average at best, valorant has as many cheaters as pretty much any other game. Original reasons behind vanguard are irrelevant, point is that CCP can request data from tencent at anytime.

@@IWatchSecksTheres no way you say it's "Average at best" when high level CS players find cheaters to be a massive problem while high level valorant players basically never complained about cheaters.

@@IWatchSecks "average at best" why don't you list me all the competitive games and their respective AC that are better than vanguard. I've been playing for 3 years now CONSTANTLY duoing or stacking with my friends at diamond and WE have personally never seen the red screen during those sessions. Im curious what you think is better

Riot games is located in California not china they have stake also riot employees are us citizens it’s not a virus

its called tencent cuz every person that uses its product gets its personal data stolen and sold for ten cents

I don't trust anything that's under the CCP's control, not even chinese citizens abroad. Look up chinese civilian-military merge laws, there are NO chinese civilians, everyone is required to act as a soldier or spy whenever the CCP requests it.

​@@PartlyXenonfool go be a teacher at some high school or something homie. Dont waist yo time being up in them comment on RU-vid

I assume you don't play any unreal engine based games, you don't use discord, you don't play any games on your phone being made by studios where tencent has stakes in them etc. Or else this is just a lie you tell yourself at night to sleep well.

Agreed, vids on easy anti-cheat and BattlEye too would also be really helpful

no

@@uigoku8600 when uninstalling val and riot it gives u an option to uninstall vanguard tho?

i would love to see a video about that if it's possible

No, you can't... How tls work is that you get the server's public key and use it to encrypt the connection and only the server's private key can decrypt that... Look at it like a pair of padlock and key, the client and the server exchange their locks (public keys) during the handshake and then the server/client lock the message box with the other's padlock and only the server's key can unlock just like only your private key can unlock the server's response... You'd have to actually hook the functions or read the memory to see the message before encryption

Same here...I disabled the auto start and never saw vangaurd on my system tray after that. The worst part is that the game runs fine without it. So I checked the services running and saw that vgc.exe never runs even if I launch riot client. Either vanguard is just useless or it is running a process which I am not aware of...

Most likely you have disabled only the tray icon. The driver still runs.

Open up command prompt as an administrator type in "sc delete vgc" and then enter then type in "sc delete vgk" then enter reboot and then open up file explorer and go to C:\Program Files\ find "Riot Vanguard" right click it and delete it viola

go to control pannel and delete valorant from there. it should give you the prompt of if you want to delete vanguard

Get yourself the free trial version of the REVO uninstaller since it uninstalls more than just the program itself but also everything else it at some point left in your system

@@eagleclaws1781Bruh. Settings has a uninstall button and worst case search the program in “This PC” of the files app. You don’t gotta install more software.

was considering buying this game, so also would like to know this

Actually, EasyAntiCheat and BattleEye are also Kernel Level as far as I know so games like PUBG, Apex, Ark and co are the same. Never had issues with Helldivers tho

only worth avoiding if you use illegal porn. and you are not a main character in a show. Only important people need to care about security. most anti cheat today are kernel level. windows alone is already a data harvesting machine. You are more likely to die than being exploited by this kernel level cheats.

Yeah amazing video. - "I dont know what this anticheat is doing but it spooks me and its also chinese so its a SPYWARE!!!!!"

@@sas408 cannot wait for videos like this but for antiviruses, with their logic is easier to unalive yourself because everything and everyone collecting data on you even if you are not using anything, simply going outside getting you spied on.

it would be funny if you say you wont miss it and end up going to dota

of course it can't stop them completely, that's just a marketing/reason they give people. it's functioning like any other anti cheat

@@Wanderer3639 I never tried Dota and I'm not interested in it, honestly. The only online game that I play now is Tekken 8.

@@JohnDoe-wl8zk You never found a cheater? Were you looking? Were you playing with only people you absolutely knew, beyond the shadow of a doubt, weren't cheating? Highly suspect comment.

@@dyanosis You're free to believe what you want, I'm not gonna try to convince you. Have a good day.

Tbh this video is pure shit, go have fun on the game. Your phone, windows, google and RU-vid do has much has vanguard does

Yup, you can disable it so it doesnt boot on startup, and its off untill you turn it back on.

Think thats just the game not closing properly.

almost anything, the can even run a exe file, they can use your machine to ddos someone, or to run crypto, ecc, there is not that much of a limit

Anything on kernel 0 my man.

Everything that you mentioned and much more - Modify kernel memory - Inspect every process - Change permissions - Load new firmware (BIOS, vBIOS, ssd firmware...) - Load new drivers - Read and modify every file And this list is not exhaustive lol

they could read all of your browser history and passwords from every user on the computer, download all your documents and pictures and analyze your data. They can do anything they want.

The same thing microsoft can do