Theoretically it should only be running during gameplay, and that’s probably true as I’m sure security researchers would’ve pointed it out if games installed a persistently running rootkit. So it’s different than Crowdstrike which was running immediately from boot.
So there is that, if it caused your PC to crash it should be fine after reboot. The driver has God power though as far as your PC goes so if it was the point of entry for a malicious attack you could be really screwed.
Edit: apparently I’m wrong and it runs all the time what the fuck
Theoretically it should only be running during gameplay, and that’s probably true as I’m sure security researchers would’ve pointed it out if games installed a persistently running rootkit. So it’s different than Crowdstrike which was running immediately from boot.
So there is that, if it caused your PC to crash it should be fine after reboot. The driver has God power though as far as your PC goes so if it was the point of entry for a malicious attack you could be really screwed.
Edit: apparently I’m wrong and it runs all the time what the fuck
Vanguard is always running at all times.
Honestly no idea why it isn’t considered malware.