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[-] agraves@lm.possum.city 34 points 1 year ago

you mean the rootkits that won't run on Linux?

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 48 points 1 year ago

When did 'rootkit' come to be a generic term for invasive software? Rootkits are a specific type of thing.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 42 points 1 year ago

Anticheats that run in the NT kernel may as well be described as rootkits, especially as they aren't transparent about exactly what they're doing. Then there's the question of what happens if they get compromised

[-] agraves@lm.possum.city 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Vanguard, BattlEye, EasyAntiCheat, Ricochet, etc... all run in the Windows Kernel and most, if not all, have the functionality to run arbitrary code, so might as well class them as rootkits.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Because “rootkit” sounds more ominous and scary than “kernel level anticheat” and the communities complaining about such things aren’t known to keep hyperbole to a minimum. Gotta push that FUD.

This article for instance, using language that insinuates a huge gap in performance between the Linux distros and windows, when it’s a 6% difference between the best and the worst, on one set of hardware.

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