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Re:Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D... by Cloudef on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @07:15AM (#25045106)
People are insane to begin with to install some rootkit on their system just to play a game.
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Re:Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D... by ss248 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:04AM (#25045477)
It's trivial (if you know what you are doing) to load kernel drivers from userspace by abusing windows bugs. If you trust a program to run in userspace, then it already has all the keys to the kingdom.

Welcome to windows security.

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Re:Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D... by pjmlp on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:28AM (#25045663)
Strange, I can do the same in Linux.

Welcome to GNU/Linux security.

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Re:Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D... by forest_dweller on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:34PM (#25048545)
A lot of the times you won't know unless you go digging through review comments or people have made a fuss over it.
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Re:Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @07:42AM (#25045318)
To some people, the priority is the game and they couldn't care less about the borderline malware required to do so.
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Re:Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D... by swebs on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:06AM (#25045484)
Most people installing these games don't even know what a rootkit is.
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