Kernel Driver for Ricochet Anti-Cheating Technique Rolling Out to CoD: Warzone – Gaming – News

How would this work with other launchers such as Steam, could a game also receive an update with such a driver, and if so, how would it go with the automatic (forced) updates?

That is also fully automatic there.

After the update has been installed, you will be prompted once when the game is launched via a UAC prompt to give Steam permission to install the redistributable for the anti-cheat with administrator rights. This will of add a permanent driver to the kernel that usually sleeps and needs to be explicitly woken up, of will install a user-mode service that runs under the SYSTEM account and with it has the rights to (un)install the kernel driver on-demand.

Incidentally, from a legal point of view, this is probably not acceptable.
Under EU law, sellers are required to explicitly state any third party technological protection measures used prior to purchase. This is an information requirement and therefore an essential product feature. Sellers are not allowed to unilaterally change the essential product features and any contractual terms that would entitle them to do so are on an explicit blacklist of terms to which a consumer cannot be bound. By unsolicitedly forcing this update where the only other option is not to accept it and to uninstall the entire game and not touch it anymore, the seller is effectively failing its delivery obligation. (Supplied no longer meets the contract.) This is a case of non-conformity in which you as a consumer are entitled to repair or termination and money back.

But: there is, as always, a huge gap between being entitled and getting justice.

[Reactie gewijzigd door R4gnax op 8 december 2021 14:25]

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