Field Guide · Anti-cheat

nProtect GameGuard

nProtect GameGuard is a kernel-mode anti-cheat from the South Korean company INCA Internet, one of the oldest in the field and long deployed across Korean and Asian online games. In Helldivers 2 the developer describes it as loading while the game runs and being removed on uninstall. It has a documented history of conflicts with other software and false positives.

kernel · with gameLoads a kernel-level driver while the game runs, then unloads it when you quit.

How it loads

While a protected game runs

Firmware it asks for

None catalogued

Games catalogued

Catalogued as of

June 2026

What it can and cannot see

nProtect GameGuard runs in the kernel of the machine it is installed on while the protected game is open, where it can watch running programs and system memory for interference with the game. Like any anti-cheat that runs on your PC, it cannot see a separate, second computer or an external capture device that never touches the host it is watching.

The same boundary applies to every anti-cheat here. Anti-cheat that runs on your PC can examine what happens on that PC, to the depth its design allows. It cannot see a second computer, a capture device, or hardware placed between an input device and the port it plugs into. That is why the presence of an anti-cheat is not, on its own, proof of anything about a player, in either direction. Vera describes what runs; it does not decide what it means.

Games that use it

Helldivers 2

Sony Interactive Entertainment·kernel · with game

Source

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.