Valorant's anti-cheat software runs at system startup - should you be worried?

[WYP]

"The Vanguard driver does not collect or send any information" - Claims Riot



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[looz]

Interesting how they mention external audits but with no mention of the companies involved, so we essentially have to take Riot's and only Riot's word for it.
That's not how it works, at least when you value your customers.
In addition it should be mentioned that Riot is owned by Tencent, which has close ties to the Chinese government.
That being said, I'll probably still play this a fair bit, but I'm getting a bit anxious about all the separate privileged anti cheats at this rate and might move back to only using Windows for gaming.

 

[Dicehunter]

Interesting how they mention external audits but with no mention of the companies involved, so we essentially have to take Riot's and only Riot's word for it.
That's not how it works, at least when you value your customers.
In addition it should be mentioned that Riot is owned by Tencent, which has close ties to the Chinese government.
That being said, I'll probably still play this a fair bit, but I'm getting a bit anxious about all the separate privileged anti cheats at this rate and might move back to only using Windows for gaming.

Going to be giving this game a hard miss then ^_^

 

[ImprovizoR]

Call me a silly sausage, but I tend to avoid installing rootkits on my PC. That's just me though.

 

[Avet]

I am 100% on Linux now (I will be making a post about it soon) so I don't care. I will be making a dual boot Windows and use it just for games like you would use a console. I will probably suspend all purchases through Windows clients and do them via the browser on Linux. They can spy on my Steam library as much as they want.