EA says kernel-level is necessary to combat cheaters.
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Electronics Arts is launching a new kernel-level anti-cheat system for its PC games. The EA AntiCheat will debut first inlater this fall and is a custom anti-cheat system developed in-house by EA developers.
Kernel-level anti-cheat systems have drawn criticism from privacy and security advocates, as the drivers these systems use are complex and run at such a high level that if there are security issues, then developers have to be very quick to address them.EA says kernel-level protection is “absolutely vital” for competitive games like, as existing cheats operate in the kernel space, so games running in regular user mode can’t detect that tampering or cheating is occurring.
EA’s anti-cheat system will run at the kernel level and only runs when a game with EAAC protection is running. EA says its anti-cheat processes shut down once a game does and that the anti-cheat will be limited to what data it collects on a system. “EAAC does not gather any information about your browsing history, applications that are not connected to EA games, or anything that is not directly related to anti-cheat protection,” says Murphy.
Kernel-level anti-cheat systems are becoming increasingly common these days. Activision launched its ownlast year with a kernel-level driver, and the world’s biggest PC games have been using similar techniques to fight a
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