Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC)
Easy Anti-Cheat is one of the most widely deployed kernel anti-cheats in PC gaming. Founded by Finnish company Kamu in 2006, acquired by Epic Games in 2018, and bundled with Epic Online Services. The kernel driver loads while a protected game is running. User-mode daemons EasyAntiCheat.exe and EasyAntiCheat_EOS.exe are catalogued in the Field Guide's processes section.
Easy Anti-Cheat's kernel driver loads while a protected game runs and unloads when the last one closes, so it is resident only during play, not at boot. During a session it can examine processes and memory on the machine it is installed on. It cannot see a second computer, a capture card, or hardware placed upstream of an input device's port.
The user-mode processes this anti-cheat runs, the ones that show up in your own process list. Each is catalogued in the Field Guide's processes section:
Catalogued by Vera from the anti-cheat maker's own documentation and named public reporting (Ars Technica, PC Gamer, Eurogamer, BleepingComputer, and others). Anti-cheats change; these notes reflect the public record as of June 2026. What is here is public evidence, never an accusation about a person.