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You can finally turn Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat off when you're not playing a game
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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2026
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Tech wise this is pretty interesting.
Finally embracing a solved problem is pretty interesting?
Why are you bringing up examples of worse anti cheats that dont utilise anything remotely close to vanguards solution?
Sorry, didn't realize we we're here to fan girl our favorite rootkit, please enlighten me on how much better this one is.
The ones you listed are loaded later therefore they weren't able to establish a chain of trust and were easily bypassed even at a software level. This change is cool because its using a combination of advancements in hardware and kernel tech to give up that early load order. Windows has been trying to a long time to get a solid chain of trust and now its reliable enough that we're seeing vanguard skip the boot and feel confident enough in the windows chain of trust to verify that none of the drivers have been tampered. Its a better experience for the user, maybe we will see other anti cheats follow.
I've never installed vanguard and I never will. I dont run windows but I can appreciate tech without being a dogmatic spazmoid about it. If you read the article you'd know all this.