LightingService.exe — anti-cheat false positive (Easy anti-cheat)

[Cola500]

This is a service from ASUS for RGB backlighting - Asus AURA.

If this service is started, the game does not start, because the anti-cheat curses on this service.

And this is strange, since the service is digitally signed by ASUS.

Developers, contact your partner to update antivirus signatures.

[SSIXS]

Originally posted by Cola500:

This is a service from ASUS for RGB backlighting - Asus AURA.

If this service is started, the game does not start, because the anti-cheat curses on this service.

And this is strange, since the service is digitally signed by ASUS.

Developers, contact your partner to update antivirus signatures.

It's not a false positive mate. Last year EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat) banned the use of 3rd party programs for lighting and such, because people were hooking into them and enabling their cheats in games.

So we have to disable the lighting service before starting any EAC protected game.

Once again the cheaters are responsible for the rest of us not being able to use nice things...

[Cola500]

That's it. Well thank you.

So i'll just turn off the service ...

[Warlord]

It most certainlly is a false positive. Good grief these forums.

[SSIXS]

Originally posted by Warlord:

It most certainlly is a false positive. Good grief these forums.

This is a response from EAC when contacted in Feb 2018 about ASUS AURA's LightingService.exe causing Game Security Violations Detected -

" Thank you for contacting us.
The software in question uses vulnerable components that can be exploited for cheating or cause unexpected errors. That is why we recommend closing this application before starting the game. If the vulnerabilities are fixed, the error will not be displayed.

Let us know if we can help you with anything else.
In the meantime have a great day! "

Feel free to contact them yourself, and see if they tell you that it's an unintended error or false positive.

https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/ww3/contact/tech/

[Cola500]

if anyone is interested, then Asus released a fresh version of Lighting_Control_1.07.35 and fixed vulnerabilities in it. Now EAC does not swear at the application :)

[Totoro kun]

fix please

[76561198179747781]

Originally posted by Cola500:

if anyone is interested, then Asus released a fresh version of Lighting_Control_1.07.35 and fixed vulnerabilities in it. Now EAC does not swear at the application :)

issue is still here i have latest aura and it still dont let m,e play it unless i close the app from taskmanager

[NoAimCalvin]

Originally posted by BOT Elmor:

Originally posted by Cola500:

if anyone is interested, then Asus released a fresh version of Lighting_Control_1.07.35 and fixed vulnerabilities in it. Now EAC does not swear at the application :)

issue is still here i have latest aura and it still dont let m,e play it unless i close the app from taskmanager

can confirm, have the latest version of AuraSync and have to close it in the task manager, this is honestly pretty infuriating

[jog0ff]

ive got Aura running all the time and no issues at all

[Mr. G]

Originally posted by 1AD jog0ff:

ive got Aura running all the time and no issues at all

It depends on which lighting software you have. Some trigger EAC and prevent gamers from playing, and others don't cause any issues. It's a frustrating situation, that's for sure. Sadly, there isn't anything we can do about it.

[TacticalBluberry]

Originally posted by SSIXS:

Originally posted by Warlord:

It most certainlly is a false positive. Good grief these forums.

This is a response from EAC when contacted in Feb 2018 about ASUS AURA's LightingService.exe causing Game Security Violations Detected -

" Thank you for contacting us.
The software in question uses vulnerable components that can be exploited for cheating or cause unexpected errors. That is why we recommend closing this application before starting the game. If the vulnerabilities are fixed, the error will not be displayed.

Let us know if we can help you with anything else.
In the meantime have a great day! "

Feel free to contact them yourself, and see if they tell you that it's an unintended error or false positive.

https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/ww3/contact/tech/

So you took their word for it? It's garbage devs being lazy. If their software can"t differentiate between a utility and a hack, why does it even exist?

[SSIXS]

Originally posted by redshirt4life:

So you took their word for it? It's garbage devs being lazy. If their software can"t differentiate between a utility and a hack, why does it even exist?

Not sure why you dug this up, but I understood the position they're taking after I did some research of my own that pointed to cheaters finding/sharing digitally signed vulnerable drivers and such that would allow them to manually map/mask their own driver/cheats to potentially get around game anti-cheats.

I won't link to lists of some of the publically posted vulnerable drivers for obvious reasons, but if you do a little Google research yourself, you might gain a better understanding of why some seemingly innocent things are banned.

Edit: I'll post these, as they're relevant to the Asus Aura Sync discussed in this thread.

https://www.secureauth.com/labs/advisories/asus-drivers-elevation-privilege-vulnerabilities

https://bit-tech.net/news/tech/software/asus-gigabyte-software-hit-by-security-flaws/1/

[Keyinator]

Originally posted by redshirt4life:

Originally posted by SSIXS:

This is a response from EAC when contacted in Feb 2018 about ASUS AURA's LightingService.exe causing Game Security Violations Detected -

" Thank you for contacting us.
The software in question uses vulnerable components that can be exploited for cheating or cause unexpected errors. That is why we recommend closing this application before starting the game. If the vulnerabilities are fixed, the error will not be displayed.

Let us know if we can help you with anything else.
In the meantime have a great day! "

Feel free to contact them yourself, and see if they tell you that it's an unintended error or false positive.

https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/ww3/contact/tech/

So you took their word for it? It's garbage devs being lazy. If their software can"t differentiate between a utility and a hack, why does it even exist?

You're not a very smart guy, are you?

[Black Bart]

Here is a workaround using PlayNite to automatically close the programs before game launch. https://www.reddit.com/r/playnite/comments/iabsdn/solved_easy_anti_cheat_lightingserviceexe_aura/

[noah_2040]

Originally posted by SSIXS:

Originally posted by Cola500:

This is a service from ASUS for RGB backlighting - Asus AURA.

If this service is started, the game does not start, because the anti-cheat curses on this service.

And this is strange, since the service is digitally signed by ASUS.

Developers, contact your partner to update antivirus signatures.

It's not a false positive mate. Last year EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat) banned the use of 3rd party programs for lighting and such, because people were hooking into them and enabling their cheats in games.

So we have to disable the lighting service before starting any EAC protected game.

Once again the cheaters are responsible for the rest of us not being able to use nice things...

can we just find these cheaters, find where they are and beat their face in... asking for a friend