Would you be opposed to SE implementing a program to scan for addons/parsers?

[Saraide]

Unfortunately Hikari is not so wrong about stealing credit card information or hacking your computer. There are some reasons why ACT has to be started with elevated rights. And if an application has Administrator rights then it can do literery everything.


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I'm sure you dont mean to concern troll but that really is the risk of the people installing mods and not anyone else's. It is also kind of an ironic thing to say in a thread about introducing an anti cheat software which needs even more permissions on your system, just look at valorant's anti cheat. If giving vast permissions to a program is a concern to you then you have to be against anti cheat software. The permissions given to anti cheat software in general has in the past already been exploited in the case of genshin impact's anticheat.

[Larirawiel]

I'm sure you dont mean to concern troll but that really is the risk of the people installing mods and not anyone else's. It is also kind of an ironic thing to say in a thread about introducing an anti cheat software which needs even more permissions on your system, just look at valorant's anti cheat. If giving vast permissions to a program is a concern to you then you have to be against anti cheat software. The permissions given to anti cheat software in general has in the past already been exploited in the case of genshin impact's anticheat.

It is true. I am also against anticheat software. Because it installs a Ring 0 driver/kernel module. A Ring 0 driver has way more permissions than the Administrator account. And anticheat software was already hacked:

https://www.techspot.com/news/95781-...ansomware.html


A bad programmed Ring 0 kernel module can also easily cause BSODs, it can badly interfere with antivirus software etc.


Cheers