fps drops in val

edit: after reading his comment he could mean that he got malware from elsewhere and it could affect his performance in valorant. If so I apologize and retract my statement, otherwise my statement still stands.

Not sure if trolling or just stupid.

Hello,

Valorant's Vanguard Anti-Cheat was developed and published by Riot Games, which is based in Los Angeles, California. While Riot Games may be owned by Tencent in the People's Republic of China, they are located in L.A. This means that Riot Games has to comply with the laws of the City and County of Los Angeles, the State of California, and the United States of America.

While the People's Republic of China has engaged in attacks on US government agencies and busineses, these seem to be for political or economic reasons and not targeted towards gamers or games that I am aware of.

If the People's Republic of China were to engage in hacking through something like Valorant's anti-cheat module, this would result in all sorts of economic, legal and political repercussions against Riot Games, Tencent and the PRC government. This would likely extend far beyond the United State to whatever countries Riot Games and Tencent do business in as well.

That means that there is a risk to the economy of the People's Republic of China. It seems very unlikely that the government would engage in such activities, as the likelihood for collecting anything useful is quite low commensurate to the level of risk of risk in destroying an $87 billion dollar business in their own country.

Of course, it is always possible that there are security vulnerabilities which could be exploited in the Vanguard Anti-Cheat software, just like software from any other publisher (Apple, Microsoft, etc.). But it would be foolish of the People's Republic of China to target one of their own companies and risk having it sanctioned around the world like Russian companies currently are for the sake of gaining some data from gamers, which is unlikely to have any commercial, economic or political value to their government.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

There are things called false positives in antivirus or malware removal software but my guess it's a CS frog or cheat developer trying to make other people lose confidence in vanguard anti cheat.