Comment on Halo Infinite Update to Bring Networking Overhaul, Easy Anti-Cheat, and More Next Week
Keegen@lemmy.zip 3 months agoI’m pretty sure games that use kernel level anti-cheat on Windows do need administrator permissions to launch (I’m not certain though, I haven’t used Windows since before this whole kernel anti-cheat thing started to become common). It’s just that on Windows it’s a simple OK box majority of people click through without a thought because of how used they are to doing it without really knowing what it does.
tb_@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They need admin permissions to install, not to launch.
But, you know, so does basically any other application you install.
Keegen@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I stand corrected! That’s a lot worse then I thought.
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
This is more or less what I was getting at. Windows UAC triggers so often with no context that’s its really just an annoying popup to most users. You need to pass the same UAC prompts to installing Excel as to install a root kit or a compromised software package.