In these times, many users use their computers both when working in the office, and later to entertain themselves at home. As we said, in the second case, one of the most common uses is to play, either online or locally. But that is not all that a computer offers us when it comes to having an entertaining time, we can also use the Internet to talk with others, see movies and series, etc. But with everything and with it, in these same lines we are going to focus on an aspect directly related to the games.
Games have security features
And it is that, as it happens with the components of many other sectors of the softwarethe games also require their sections of security. These prevent against hacking or illegitimate copying of the same, its misuse to introduce malware, or traps during the execution of these. And it is that, largely due to its widespread use, many users try to take advantage of the vulnerabilities of these security solutions. game softwarefor their own benefit.
The time is when games included their own tricks like Doom, in which, by introducing various codes, we could have ammunition and infinite life, ended many years ago. Currently, cheating in games, unfortunately, has become commonplace as well as lucrative for the people who are in charge of working on the vulnerabilities of the anti-cheat protections that are used and, at present, there is no game that be 100% sure.
It is for all these reasons that, as expected, the developers of these tend to incorporate various integrated tools that take care of all this. It is for all this that we are telling you that along these same lines we are going to focus on one of these security systems used by some games current.
What is the EasyAntiCheat process in Windows
Specifically, in this case we are referring to the modes of operation that are not allowed by some users when playing, which are known as cheats. This is something most players disagree with, but some take advantage of the rest. That is why some developers try to put an end to it in one way or another. It is precisely for this reason that a process in Windows comes into play that perhaps we have ever wondered what it is for, we refer to EasyAntiCheat.
To begin with, we will say that this is a process that on certain occasions we can find running in the background in windows. Well, you have to know that it is actually a tool specially designed to stop and catch the cheaters in games online multiplayer. Hence the utility that it is running on the system without us realizing it.
In this way, at the same time we are playing a online game that uses the EasyAntiCheat component, it runs in the background on the system. Thus, what is achieved is that the cheaters in a certain title can carry out their tricks. At the same time, the tool ensures that cheaters do not know exactly what is happening. This is avoided by not explaining in depth the internal workings of the method. It must be said that, roughly speaking, the tool looks for unknown or unreliable game files, as well as debuggers, which crash the game per se.
Where to see if it is running
It must be taken into account that the vast majority of the applications that we run in Windows have their own process. But these are not the only ones that create an element of this type. We tell you this because there are many other processes that may be running on our computer without us noticing. Well, to know first hand what processes are running on Windows, just open the System Task Manager. This is something we achieve through the Ctrl + Shift + Esc key combination.
This is a utility offered by the operating system of Microsoft to be able to know immediately what processes are running. At the same time we will be able to see the consumption of resources of each one of them, which can be very useful for us. Therefore, we now know that in the event that we suddenly encounter a process called EasyAntiCheat.exeWe already know what it refers to.
What we should know is that as a general rule we won’t even notice that EasyAntiCheat.exe is running in the background. Of course, unless we access the commented section of the Task Manager, where we will see it running. It should be mentioned at the same time that this is something that runs while we play. In addition, it is not used with all current titles, only with some of them, especially suitable for those of us who play on-line.
Can I delete it?
As we have already seen, EasyAntiCheat is a necessary program for many online games to function normally. If we don’t have it installed, or we have closed it, we simply won’t be able to validate our session on the server and, therefore, we won’t be able to play.
It is not an essential process for the proper functioning of the computer, so if we do not want it to be open, we will be able to close it without any problem. Of course, taking into account that online games can give us problems. In the same way, we can also delete it from the computer without our Windows going to give any problem. Although, yes, we recommend you uninstall it normally instead of forcibly deleting it to avoid possible problems.
It’s a virus?
Although if we are not involved in the world of video games this name may be suspicious, we must be calm. As we have explained, EasyAntiCheat it is not a virusbut rather a program designed to detect and block player cheating on the Internet and promote “fair play”.
Of course, we must make sure that the version of the anti-cheat that we have installed is legitimate, and not versions that have been modified by users to allow cheats, or old versions that we find on the net. In doing so, we run, as always, the risk of falling into the hands of hackers.
How to download or reinstall EasyAntiCheat
As we mentioned before, this is a tool that is not suitable for all the games that we can install and run on the computer. Serve as an example that one of the most popular and that surely many of you play that uses it, in the popular Fortnite. Therefore, if you play a game with this game or any other that uses it and you see that process in Windows, leave it where it is. And it is that, if we eliminate what we are commenting on, it may be the probable case that the game, like Fortnite, no longer works.
It is also important to know that the moment we stop playing and close the software, the EasyAntiCheat.exe process should disappear. The same will normally happen uninstall the gamewhich should uninstall EasyAntiCheat.
In the event that we did not install it together with the game installation process and then it does not work, we can do it later. We achieve this from the same directory of the software, since they usually include a file called EasyAntiCheat that will allow us to install EasyAntiCheat_Setup.exe by hand.
All online multiplayer games that use this protection system against cheaters update this application as a new game update is released in order to adapt to the latest cheats detected and prevent them from being used by strangers, therefore, Every time we update the game, we need to give the EasyAntiCheat.exe application permission to connect to the internet.
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