<story><title>Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?</title><url>https://areweanticheatyet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hexomancer</author><text>One thing I don&amp;#x27;t understand and I would really appreciate if someone could explain this to me.&lt;p&gt;Why do we need separate anti-cheat programs? Can&amp;#x27;t the operating systems simply have an option when creating a process that prevents all operations looking at the memory of the process (and maybe if such a process is about to be launched the user has to explicitly accept that by clicking a button)? Wouldn&amp;#x27;t that stop almost all the cheats without needing separate anti cheat programs, since I assume those programs have to use OS facilities to mess with the game anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reportgunner</author><text>Cheats run on the cheater&amp;#x27;s machine, not on the other players&amp;#x27; machines. Of course the cheater would always click accept because it&amp;#x27;s not an accident that the cheat is running on their machine.</text></comment>
<story><title>Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?</title><url>https://areweanticheatyet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hexomancer</author><text>One thing I don&amp;#x27;t understand and I would really appreciate if someone could explain this to me.&lt;p&gt;Why do we need separate anti-cheat programs? Can&amp;#x27;t the operating systems simply have an option when creating a process that prevents all operations looking at the memory of the process (and maybe if such a process is about to be launched the user has to explicitly accept that by clicking a button)? Wouldn&amp;#x27;t that stop almost all the cheats without needing separate anti cheat programs, since I assume those programs have to use OS facilities to mess with the game anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trustno2</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s like DRM; on some level, the user is using computer how he is supposed to use it - interacting with memory and processor and the programs.&lt;p&gt;Of course nowadays DRMs are sort of baked-in, so I guess anti-cheats could be too?</text></comment>