Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
scoobford@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoEli5: 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.