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<blockquote data-quote="Akolyte" data-source="post: 816581" data-attributes="member: 78466">A lot of anti-cheat software is similar to spyware, it just gets whitelisted by antivirus vendors.&nbsp; Somtimes they do actually install themselves as a rootkit (sort of) and monitor what is running and what software you are using, for the purpose of identifying cheats for Black Desert Online, and with all the modern hacks that are out there, cheat software generally tries to hide from anti-cheats, so perhaps this anti-cheat wants low-level access so it can monitor the entire system for possible cheats. At the core though, whether it is malware or not depends on you, and on your opinion of the software.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;d read the privacy policy of all the companies associated with Black Desert online and see if they have any data collection.&nbsp; They may even just collect data anyway. Keep in mind though, a lot of software could be malware if you just classified it to be.&nbsp; A lot of antivirus vendors like Avast, Mcafee, Kaspersky &amp; Bitdefender (esspecially) spy on you and compromise your root certificates, do you consider them malware?&nbsp; What about Steam, Uplay, etc? Windows 10?I&#039;m just trying to state the point that it&#039;s not abnormal for strong anti-cheat software to behave this way, and you should judge it based on what you think of the company behind the software, because in the end, you allow a lot of software that behaves similarly because you have a level of trust of the developers, so look into the developers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Akolyte, post: 816581, member: 78466"] A lot of anti-cheat software is similar to spyware, it just gets whitelisted by antivirus vendors. Somtimes they do actually install themselves as a rootkit (sort of) and monitor what is running and what software you are using, for the purpose of identifying cheats for Black Desert Online, and with all the modern hacks that are out there, cheat software generally tries to hide from anti-cheats, so perhaps this anti-cheat wants low-level access so it can monitor the entire system for possible cheats. [B]At the core though,[/B] whether it is malware or not depends on you, and on your opinion of the software. I'd read the privacy policy of all the companies associated with Black Desert online and see if they have any data collection. They may even just collect data anyway. Keep in mind though, a lot of software could be malware if you just classified it to be. A lot of antivirus vendors like Avast, Mcafee, Kaspersky & Bitdefender (esspecially) spy on you and compromise your root certificates, do you consider them malware? What about Steam, Uplay, etc? Windows 10? I'm just trying to state the point that it's not abnormal for strong anti-cheat software to behave this way, and you should judge it based on what you think of the company behind the software, because in the end, you allow a lot of software that behaves similarly because you have a level of trust of the developers, so look into the developers. [/QUOTE]

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