• @SquirtleHermit
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      3610 months ago

      About the same as Spiderman 2 or Ghost of Tsushima on Windows.

      • @[email protected]
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        3610 months ago

        When did ‘rootkit’ come to be a generic term for invasive software? Rootkits are a specific type of thing.

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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          3710 months ago

          Anticheats that run in the NT kernel may as well be described as rootkits, especially as they aren’t transparent about exactly what they’re doing. Then there’s the question of what happens if they get compromised

        • Ashley Graves
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          Vanguard, BattlEye, EasyAntiCheat, Ricochet, etc… all run in the Windows Kernel and most, if not all, have the functionality to run arbitrary code, so might as well class them as rootkits.

        • @TheGrandNagus
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          310 months ago

          If it has kernel level access and can run arbitrary code, that’s a rootkit.

          It’s absolutely valid to call these systems rootkits.

        • @[email protected]
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          -110 months ago

          Because “rootkit” sounds more ominous and scary than “kernel level anticheat” and the communities complaining about such things aren’t known to keep hyperbole to a minimum. Gotta push that FUD.

          This article for instance, using language that insinuates a huge gap in performance between the Linux distros and windows, when it’s a 6% difference between the best and the worst, on one set of hardware.

      • @dogslayeggs
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        310 months ago

        That’s the point they were trying to make. It was a facetious question.