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		Jamie9912 on Feb 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patc... Don't popular antiviruses scan entire process memory?

adzm on Feb 23, 2023 [–]

Popular antiviruses often have exclusions for particular processes in order not to trip anti-cheat / tamper-detection code, as well. Especially for well-known anti-cheat mechanisms.

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