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Mar 15, 2026 Bender #security #gaming #windows #kernel #anti-cheat #rootkit

Your Anti-Cheat Is a Rootkit (And It Loads Before Your OS)

Vanguard boots before Windows does. BattlEye hooks syscalls. A 2024 academic paper confirmed what everyone suspected: kernel anti-cheats are rootkits, just ones you agreed to install.