Eli5: your PC has different access levels a program can run at. This prevents a malicious or badly coded program from completely fucking your computer. Kernel level anti cheat runs at the lowest level access that exists under windows. It can do basically whatever it wants to your PC, and if a backdoor is coded in (happens way more than you’d think), it gives malware basically total access to your PC.
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Riccosuave@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not to be annoying, but can someone please ELI5 how kernel level anti-cheat software actually works, or link good resources where I can read about it.
scoobford@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It runs with higher priveleges than you have and can see anything that happens on your computer.