If you think about it anything you give admin access has full control over your system and all your "data" without having to pass through any anti-virus. And silent updates? You don't even need admin access for that.
Your CPU fan control software has kernel access, so your custom cooling could possibly stick you in a boot loop (that I can almost guarantee you wouldn't be permanent past a frustrating day of Googling, your hard drive does not encrypt itself or blow up on "blue screen" unless your hard drive itself was damaged... idk if the computer is even capable of that past stress testing it, which again doesn't take the kernel)
The last claim I've heard is that a developer once stuck a rouge piece of bitcoin mining code in some kernel driver once, and that proves they aren't safe... but you didn't need kernel access for that, and that was a horrible plan that was bound to be caught anyway.
So I think there's nothing to freak out about. :/ And I'm usually the last person to disagree with anti-consumer rage. YouTube tech rage is a different kind of clickbaity though.
Simply by the fact that you install tons of shit that was made by someone who you don't know who basically has full access of your entire system without any kind of kernel access.
An anti-cheat system would make use of scanning memory directly by address and it might not even be a bad idea. My only qualm was that it should have been online only, if only to prevent consumer... confusion. Also people really hate Denuavo's guts.
For a good reason. They need to go out of business.
helIy posted...
because its not doing anything but preventing piracy
its fine
did you know that steam also has ring 0 access
did you know that that rgb software you installed also has ring 0 access
damn near everything has ring 0 access
False. Denuvo themselves have admitted to leaving files on your computer after uninstalling a game that has it. ---