Why are video game cheats written at or why do they operate at the kernel level? Hence why kernel level anti-cheat is a thing for PC games.
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Video game cheats aren’t written at the kernel level. Anti cheat software is now being written at the kernel level because that gives them the most control over other running programs on the system and more information about your computer than it would normally have access to.
For example, Vanguard uses it’s Kernel level access to try banning people’s computer hardware itself, not just your account.
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