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I understand that you want to shoot your shot :)

I can't give anyone beta access though!

I don't have any unique idea generating skills, if anything it comes down to trying a lot of different things and working with a lot of smart people.

There's a team of us working on anti-cheat and we have experience from a lot of fields including information security, operating systems internals, anti-cheat development, game programming, data analysis and game hacking. We draw on our experiences in these fields as well as keep abreast of the latest research from the security and anti-cheat communities to come up with potential security techniques.

One of the best ways of coming up with new ideas is to closely monitor what hacking communities are doing to try and bypass other anti-cheat systems (including League of Legend's anti-cheat). We also welcome ideas for new security measures and reports of security weaknesses in our systems (even paying rewards in some cases) to help us improve them.

I'm not sure what you mean by exploited here.

The driver runs at system startup but the rest of Vanguard (the more active components) only run while the game is running.

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The cheats so far have been drawing players at obsolete/incorrect positions because they haven't been able to tell whether or not the information on the client is up to date.

In some of the videos floating around you can see that the wallhack box takes a big jump just before the enemy comes around the corner, that's when the server sends a real update to the player and only then are their cheats showing the correct location.

I have an article that goes into more details on how Fog of War works, it should be coming out early next week. I even made a wallhack to demo things for everyone :)

We have the driver do as little work as possible. If an anti-cheat check can be run unprivileged then we will run it that way. Sometimes there may not be a way to perform an integrity check without extra permissions and only in those cases is the work done by the driver.

While it's not an official option you can do this yourself by uninstalling Vanguard once you're finished playing. You can find it as "Riot Vanguard" in Add/Remove programs.

When you want to play again the patcher/launcher will reinstall Vanguard automatically and you'll be asked to reboot your system.

You're welcome! While there're details and specifics that I won't get into I'm trying to be as open as possible about what we're doing to fight cheaters.

Sorry to hear that. You can uninstall Riot Vanguard at any time from Add/Remove programs. You'll need to reinstall it and restart your computer if you want to play (the game patcher will reinstall it for you).

Our anti-cheat system does not run any scans while the game is closed and we definitely don't record your browsing behaviors even when the game is running.

This isn't true, the Fog of War system is running

Edit: you're right that we have more security improvements and anti-cheat tech in the works, just wanted to say that Fog of War is doing its thing on the server

You can also remove Vanguard (including vgk.sys) by going to Add/Remove programs and uninstalling "Riot Vanguard"

TL;DR Yes we run a driver at system startup, it doesn't scan anything (unless the game is running), it's designed to take up as few system resources as possible and it doesn't communicate to our servers. You can remove it at anytime.

Vanguard contains a driver component called vgk.sys (similar to other anti-cheat systems), it's the reason why a reboot is required after installing. Vanguard doesn't consider the computer trusted unless the Vanguard driver is loaded at system startup (this part is less common for anti-cheat systems).

This is good for stopping cheaters because a common way to bypass anti-cheat systems is to load cheats before the anti-cheat system starts and either modify system components to contain the cheat or to have the cheat tamper with the anti-cheat system as it loads. Running the driver at system startup time makes this significantly more difficult.

We've tried to be very careful with the security of the driver. We've h...

Yeah, I'd like to build a system like this one day. It'll have to wait until we have our replay/demo system up and running.

Yes, but I don't have enough info to provide insight around timing.

If you suspect someone is cheating it's very helpful if you report them via the in game report system. If you have video clips or other details you would like to share please send them in via a support ticket.

You can also message me with the details but since I'm only one person and I sleep sometimes it's more effective to send in a support ticket so we can guarantee someone sees it.

Thanks for the suggestion but we're not planning on supporting VMs even with GPU pass-through right now.

We may change our stance in the future if the amount of disruption caused by the restriction becomes larger than the security gains but for now we don't have any plans to support virtual machines.

Thanks, I'll make sure our designers have seen it!

I'd recommend opening a Player Support ticket, they can check out the details of your account

Oh! So does he mean it looks like a shape change even though it isn’t? Or seems like a more drastic change than just changing color. What’s he think of Jett’s gun? Or Phoenix’s?