What Venom reads

#What it reads

Once, and only while the check runs:

• The programs running, and the programs that ran recently, with where they ran from.
• The names of files in Downloads, Recent files and the Recycle Bin.
• Loaded drivers.
• Windows Defender and Windows security settings, and when they were changed.
• Whether recently run programs are signed, and by whom.
• The entries in the hosts file.
• Recently visited website names (Windows' DNS cache, names only).
• The FiveM folder, and the programs and mods in the GTA V folder.
• Which Windows account is signed in, and when Windows was installed.
• Whether Windows logs or records were cleared.

Players see this list and agree to it before the check starts.

#What it never reads

• The contents of any file.
• Passwords, messages or browser history.
• Anything on the screen, the camera or the microphone.

Venom does not stay installed and never runs again on its own.

#Why it cannot get anyone banned elsewhere

Venom only looks. It never:

• injects into another program or hooks anything,
• reads another program's memory,
• loads a driver,
• changes a setting or deletes a file.

It opens running programs with the most limited access Windows has, enough to read a program's path and start time and nothing else. That is the same kind of access Task Manager uses, so it cannot trip Riot Vanguard, Easy Anti-Cheat, BattlEye or FACEIT.

#Where the report goes

The report goes to the server's staff on Hydra Hub, over HTTPS, and nowhere else. It is deleted after 90 days. Staff decisions on the check, clean or banned, help the network recognise cheat files, using file fingerprints only, never player identities.