Welcome
Learn more about LiveGuard AntiCheat® - what it does, why, how it makes gaming fair and how to troubleshoot issues.
Introduction
LiveGuard AntiCheat® is an application that protects multiplayer games from hacking, cheating and more. It has been created with one sole purpose: make games fair and fun.
For years cheaters are abusing online multiplayer games for their own benefit; either by winning unfair against other opponents either by selling their cheats.
There are a number of other game anticheat applications out there, however we strive to become better. Our anticheat uses a combination of different techniques to try and mitigate cheaters as much as possible.
Realistically it is not possible to completely stop game cheating, but we sure will try to make it hard for those that try to cheat. 😉
How it works
For the entire duration of your gameplay (one instance or multiple) LiveGuard AntiCheat® will be running too.
Your in game activity will be monitored as well as applications currently running and loaded drivers. Newly opened applications and drivers will also be inspected.
If there is anything suspicious or forbidden found, you will be kicked from the game. A temporary ban might also be applied, or a permanent ban by the game administrator.
Even though the anticheat will inspect applications and drivers being opened during your gameplay, there is nothing extracted or transmitted from them. Your private data is yours.
We also have a wide range of whitelisted applications which the anticheat will not inspect at all, from antivirus software to password managers and more.
Unfortunately we cannot explain in detail how LiveGuard AntiCheat® works, because cheaters can read this page and it will just aid them in creating new cheats.
Components
LiveGuard AntiCheat® consists of multiple components that helps mitigating cheating. All these components are clean, safe and digitally signed.
Each components is "packed" by an external executable protector. This is necessary to prevent cheaters from "unpacking" the anticheat and analyse it.
These components are whitelisted by major antivirus vendors to ensure you will not have false positive virus detections.
Current Components:
- Dynamic link library files (.dll)
- Executable files (.exe)
- Drivers files (.sys)
Compatibillity
Privacy
Unlike other/most game anticheat software, we do not collect private data. There is reallistically no reason to do so, but we won't argue about what others do.
We do not inspect or monitor:
- What websites you visit
- Personal files on your computer
- Network traffic from your applications
- Screenshots of your screen
- Anything else considered private
We do inspect and monitor:
- IP Address
- In game account name / character names
- Hardware information (like serial numbers)
- Operating system information (like version)
- Game related files
- Active running processes and drivers
The data stored by the anticheat is only accessible to the game owners. LiveGuard AntiCheat® does not have access to any of the above mentioned data without the game owners explicitly sharing it.
In the event that game owners decide to share data with LiveGuard AntiCheat® ("us"), we only store IP Address and hardware information (all which is considered public and not private data).
Community
We have a nice community available 24/7 on Discord which you can join.
The idea is to get help and offer help, so if you received help with some issue you are facing please try to offer the same for others.
Please be respectful with everyone and if you are unhappy with something contact support about it or just leave the server.