Riot now lets you enable its anti-cheat when you want to
Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.
If League of Legends and Valorant players have the right hardware and elect to opt into “pre-boot security mechanisms and Windows’ own native protection features,” then, starting today, they can switch the Vanguard anti-cheat software from always-on to one that’s “on demand.” With “Vanguard Pre-Check,” the kernel-level driver won’t launch when your system does, according to a blog post from Phillip Koskinas, Riot’s head of anti-cheat.
Riot is able to introduce this new feature now after working with the Xbox OS Security Team at Microsoft on improvements to the Windows kernel that lock out the kind of driver and memory exploits that cheats use to employ wallhacks, aimbot, triggerbot, and other tools. To solve the problem of knowing if cheats have been loaded without running 24/7, Riot...
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