Apps similar to PunkBuster include Easy Anti-Cheat. It's paid, but Valve Anti-Cheat is free. Other options are BattlEye and SARD Anti-Cheat. In total there are four Anti-Cheat Tools like PunkBuster for Mac, Windows, Linux and the web.
Easy Anti-Cheat is the industry-leading anti–cheat service, countering hacking and cheating in multiplayer PC games through the use of hybrid anti–cheat mechanisms.
United States
BattlEye (BE) was founded by Bastian Suter in October 2004. Starting out as an external 3rd-party anti-cheat for Battlefield Vietnam, first versions were quickly released and it rapidly gained first acknowledgement.
Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) is an automated system designed to detect cheats installed on users' computers. If a user connects to a VAC-Secured server from a computer with identifiable cheats installed, the VAC system will ban the user from playing that game on VAC-Secured...
SARD Anti-Cheat empowers game developers and publishers with advanced technologies to prevent hacking and cheating in their MMO games.
Germany
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