Is 'Easy Anti Cheat' 100% Safe?

[Ren]

I was looking at the reviews for 'Paladins' and I saw that it got a lot of 'Not Recommended' reviews because they recently implemented Easy Anti Cheat which is supposedly a keylogger and it also puts your privacy at risk by taking screenshots, etc.

I looked this up to see if this was true and the results were very mixed and I'm still not sure, so I decided to make my own discussion.

I'm a little worried because I already have EAC on my PC because I installed Robocraft once in the past and I have Rust installed right now. I also used to play Warface which I think uses EAC as well.

Also, EAC is listed under my 'Services' tab in Task Manager but it's not in my 'Programs and Features", which makes me a little concerned.

Is it completely safe? Should I just leave it and not worry about it? Steam wouldn't host applications that come with harmful software, right?

Thanks =)

[MalikQayum]

EAC has the capeability to do these things but they are not intended to be of malicious intend(can't say for a fact but i would be suprised if it did do anything malicious or was intended for doing malicious stuff), this all boils down to how willing you are as to expose yourself to the anti-cheat, if you do not like the fact it can screenshot etc then do not buy games that uses EAC.

I can from my own experience playing with EAC in CS / CSS and CSGO mostly used it in CSS on cssmixes and personally it just creates a much more clean enviroment, I will not act all-knowning and say it could not be doing something malicious but i have used it for a few years without issues, so if you play clean, you got nothing to worry about.

(personally: the more intrusive an anti-cheat is, the better i think it is because it strikes more fear into cheaters and I would be willing to allow any anti-cheat to be intrusive on my end aswell because I am not a cheater, that is just my personal opinion)

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Sour:

I was looking at the reviews for 'Paladins' and I saw that it got a lot of 'Not Recommended' reviews because they recently implemented Easy Anti Cheat which is supposedly a keylogger and it also puts your privacy at risk by taking screenshots, etc.

I looked this up to see if this was true and the results were very mixed and I'm still not sure, so I decided to make my own discussion.

I'm a little worried because I already have EAC on my PC because I installed Robocraft once in the past and I have Rust installed right now. I also used to play Warface which I think uses EAC as well.

Also, EAC is listed under my 'Services' tab in Task Manager but it's not in my 'Programs and Features", which makes me a little concerned.

Is it completely safe? Should I just leave it and not worry about it? Steam wouldn't host applications that come with harmful software, right?

Thanks =)

Internet Explorer contains a keylogger too, it's called auto-complete....


Just because an application performs what could be a malicious act in the wrong persons hand, doesn't make that application bad.

[Ren]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Internet Explorer contains a keylogger too, it's called auto-complete....


Just because an application performs what could be a malicious act in the wrong persons hand, doesn't make that application bad.

I know, but apparently people's passwords have been leaked or something like that?

[the skromble]

I just wanna know if its safe.

[Poppi !!]

Nearly every app on your phone gathers more information than EAC. I've never had any issues with it. There are far worse anticheat measures in use by the industry. No need to let a little paranoia get the best of you 👍

If you like a game that employs EAC, play it. It's just a simple trade-off.

[Krucifix]

"Just because an application performs what could be a malicious act in the wrong persons hand, doesn't make that application bad."

Let's change a few words and see if this sounds better ...

Just because a firearm performs what could be a malicious act in the wrong persons hand, doesn't make that firearm bad. -- There fixed it for you, lol.