Easy Anti-Cheat is an anti-cheat service of Kamu Game Security, which uses state-of-the-art hybrid technology to counter hackers and fraud in multiplayer PC games and is either secretly installed during games or requires manual consumer involvement.
BattlEye by BattlEye Innovations from Reutlingen (Germany) is like Easy Anti-Cheat or PunkBuster a software that monitors players with the help of various identifiers during their own game session.
Malwarebytes is a widely used anti-virus and anti-malware program from Malwarebytes Inc. The software includes an integrated mechanism that can assess the hosts file as malicious. These misleading messages from malwarebytes refer to the presence of supposedly unauthorized versions where entries are present in the hosts file.
In January 2020, it was revealed that Avast had misused customer data and sold information from a total of 435 million active users to various companies. About 100 million devices were affected by this incident. This incident is another in a series of similar events and generally raised questions about the trust users place in security software manufacturers.
In addition to a function in Avast Internet Security that records all user steps (which menu has been clicked, what action has been taken?), there are other things in Avast's software that, point out with a large logo within their program how they "protect our privacy". In this sense, consumers are simply lied to.
