Riot Games, developer of Valorant, Responds to the Blacklash over the Vanguard Anti-Cheat System

<p>If you have Riot Games&&num;8217&semi; Valorant installed onto your PC&comma; you may not have noticed the anti-cheat technology called Vanguard that works differently to other anti-cheat systems&period; Riot’s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;support-valorant&period;riotgames&period;com&sol;hc&sol;en-us&sol;articles&sol;360046160933-What-is-Vanguard-">support site <&sol;a>indicates that a kernel anti-cheat driver called &&num;8216&semi;vgk&period;sys&&num;8217&semi; is needed to prevent cheaters&period; You may not notice it until you look at the list of background processes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The kernel has full administrator rights in Windows&comma; and the only way to prevent Vanguard from loading is to either rename the file or uninstall it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vanguard &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;contains a driver component called vgk&period;sys &lpar;similar to other anti-cheat systems&rpar;&comma;” Riot Games say&comma; and is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the reason why a reboot is required after installing”&period; This supposedly stops cheaters from bypassing anti-cheat systems&comma; through running the driver at the system startup&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are questionable security concerns as <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;reddit&period;com&sol;r&sol;pcgaming&sol;comments&sol;g02ggb&sol;valorant&lowbar;anticheat&lowbar;starts&lowbar;upon&lowbar;computer&lowbar;boot&lowbar;and&sol;">Redditors<&sol;a> have pointed out&period; The studio has explored &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;multiple external security research teams” to make sure the anti-cheat system is impenetrable&period; Riot Games also want to make sure the game is also safe from hackers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Riot Games have reassured players that Vanguard does not process or send personal information&period; The rigid systems put into place are indeed to prevent cheaters from taking advantage of the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Are you playing <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;beta&period;playvalorant&period;com&sol;en-gb&sol;">Valorant&quest;<&sol;a> Hit the comments sections below and let us know what you think&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;