{"id":4445,"date":"2020-04-28T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/players-to-be-given-more-control-over-valorant-s-controversial-anti-cheat"},"modified":"2024-07-19T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T18:00:52","slug":"players-to-be-given-more-control-over-valorant-s-controversial-anti-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/valorant\/players-to-be-given-more-control-over-valorant-s-controversial-anti-cheat","title":{"rendered":"Players to be given more control over Valorant’s controversial anti-cheat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Riot Games has come under fire in recent weeks for the apparent intrusiveness of Vanguard, their new anti-cheat software for Valorant, with users being concerned about privacy and potential backdoor attacks<\/a> due to its use of a kernel driver to rid the game of cheaters.<\/p>\n

Those concerns have prompted Riot to introduce a series of changes to the anti-cheat designed to give greater transparency and control to users.<\/p>\n

In a post on the Valorant subreddit<\/a>, a Riot dev laid out the changes including a “new visual component that will give you, the player, more visibility and control over it.”<\/p>\n

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\"Vanguard
\nPlayers will be now able to deactivate or uninstall Vanguard (Credit: Riot Games)<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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From today Vanguard, will now display as an icon on the system tray when it is in operation with users able to turn off anti-cheat at any time. Users will also be able to uninstall Vanguard from the system tray icon.<\/p>\n

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\"Uninstall
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However, turning off or uninstalling Vanguard will put your computer into “untrusted mode” and you will be unable to play Valorant.<\/p>\n