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Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) is an anti-cheat tool developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002. When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. [ 1 ]
Anti-Cheat Expert (ACE) is a game security product designed for both PC games and mobile games. ACE was initially released as an antibot for Free Fantasy Online [ zh ] in 2005. [ 1 ] Since then, ACE has also collaborated with multiple games such as Honor of Kings , Game for Peace and Arena Breakout: Infinite .
Anti-cheat software is designed to prevent players of online games from gaining unfair advantage through the use of third-party tools, usually taking the form of software hooks. It is challenged to run securely in an aggressively hostile environment. See Cheating in online games. See also Category:Digital rights management
PunkBuster is a computer program that is designed to detect software used for cheating in online games.It does this by scanning the memory contents of the local machine. A computer identified as using cheats may be banned from connecting to protected servers.
GameGuard possesses a database on game hacks based on security references from more than 260 game clients. Some editions of GameGuard are now bundled with INCA Internet's Tachyon anti-virus/anti-spyware library, and others with nProtect Key Crypt, an anti-key-logger software that protects the keyboard input information.
Cheating in video games involves a video game player using various methods to create an advantage beyond normal gameplay, usually in order to make the game easier.Cheats may be activated from within the game itself (a cheat code implemented by the original game developers), or created by third-party software (a game trainer or debugger) or hardware (a cheat cartridge).
VRChat was review bombed on Steam in July 2022 following an update that implemented Easy Anti-Cheat to counter "malicious" mods from players. Despite modding of the game being technically disallowed, players criticized the decision as mods have been used to improve the game's accessibility, user safety, and performance.