Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game. Every time you play a game a function is called to screenshot your PC’s screen, in case Vanguard thinks you might have something suspicious, it screenshots your ENTIRE PC screen (all monitors).

Edit: Not trying to spread false info this was shared to me via a friend and there is other data to back up that this is real https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/anti-cheat-bypass/634974-vanguard-taking-screenshot-pc.html

https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/valorant/484475-vanguard-screenshots.html

  • bountygiver@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    the code posted in the forum is only pointing out the capture and send to server function exists, but not what calls those functions, so still don’t know if it affects other games until they posted the full article as promised. Btw, taking screenshots as anticheat is not new, they use this to catch overlays/cheat application UIs