EAAntiCheat.Installer
EAAntiCheat.Installer.exe is the small installer that sets up and registers Electronic Arts' in-house anti-cheat on your PC. Because the same anti-cheat protects many EA titles, you will see this executable across EA's catalog rather than tied to one game. EA describes the system as a kernel-mode anti-cheat and anti-tamper solution, first shipped with FIFA 23 in 2022 and rebranded 'EA Javelin' in 2025.
On loading behavior, EA states plainly that its anti-cheat runs only when a protected game is running and that all of its processes shut down when the game closes, so it is kernel-mode but not boot-persistent in the way Riot's Vanguard is.
Battlefield 6GameBattlefield 6Open plate → (2025) is the title that made this most visible: on PC it requires UEFI Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 to be enabled, because Javelin relies on a firmware-backed trust chain to detect tampering. That requirement currently blocks Linux and the Steam Deck, which drew the main public friction around the launch (covered by Tom's Hardware). EA's own progress reporting cites large numbers of blocked cheat attempts across billions of sessions.
If you have a recent EA game with this anti-cheat installed, the installer is expected. The anti-cheat itself runs only while a protected game runs.
This process belongs to Battlefield 6, curated in the Field Guide's Games section.
Catalogued from Vera's own observations across real sessions, surfaced only after the process has been seen on multiple independent machines. The reported publisher and category come from the process itself and Vera's curated app catalog. File paths are never published.
Vera Project. “EAAntiCheat.Installer.” Vera Field Guide (Process). The Vera Project. https://www.veraproject.xyz/field-guide/processes/eaanticheat-installer