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laplongejr t1_itgpef1 wrote

Reply to comment by axewhyzedd in TIFU by downloading malware onto my laptop when I tried to get a game by FrontAd8693

Note that some legal games can still cause damages to a computer. Notably, a dreamcast game loaded a virus when plugged into a computer to access the bundled screensaver. And some legal games anticheat system is borderline acting as a rootkit.

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axewhyzedd t1_ithwar8 wrote

I heard Valorant's Vanguard Anti Cheat was acting as a rootkit. Not sure if it was true though.

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laplongejr t1_ithyq0g wrote

Well, it is a question of control. An anticheat, by definition, is a software that needs to strip control from the user to give it to its developer.
A software bundled with a malicious piece of code to "strip control from the user to give it to its developer" is the practical definition of a rootkit.

So it depends on what is or isn't malicious, but computers don't care about that.

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