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MCOC on PC, now with Trojan Malware

When you try to install MCOC on your PC but your antivirus says no...
Can we get an explanation Kabam?

Can we get an explanation Kabam?

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It’s basically a rootkit.
It’s cool to install a kernel driver on your computer that monitors your memory and system calls just to play a game.
If/when an exploit is found for it, you wouldn’t even see or know you were a victim of it because it would be happening at the kernel level.
I’m just saying, don’t install it on your main computer if you value your privacy/security.
If you're going to be trying to give a statistic, at least make sure it is accurate. However that isn't just hacking, it is also scamming.
If so then dang you must not play a lot of online games
Of course at this point I'm just hoping law enforcement doesn't storm the house and seize my younger kid's gaming laptop. I live in a happy world of plausible deniability.
It’s because it’s kernel level and had one bad update.
Not a chance I would install this on my main computer. Steam doesn’t use kernel anti cheat software for good reason.
You don’t?
In games that use peer-to-peer update systems, you often get these warnings because many of the IP addresses show up on various blacklists or grey lists. Malwarebytes is just doing what it is supposed to do: if it sees an outgoing connection to a site it thinks is suspicious, it just blocks it in the background. The MCOC client will simply assume that site is unreachable or down and continue using the others.
2. Crowdstrike didn't brick things because it was a kernel mode driver. It blue screened Windows because it was a kernel mode driver. It pseudo-bricked systems because it was part of the boot process, so it prevented Windows from booting properly. You had to bypass it by booting into safe mode and removing the driver to allow Windows to boot properly, or in some cases boot from alternate bootable media, which was problematic for many systems where remote safe mode boot was not an easy option.
I was on a rapid response mitigation team for Crowdstrike and fixing it in real time at the time, by the way.
3. All the security software that protects people from this stuff is also implemented as kernel mode drivers, including the Malwarebytes warning that started this thread. If you don't trust kernel mode drivers, you aren't running any security protection software, which is ludicrous.