vgc.exe
by Riot Games
Gaming
Summary
Vanguard anti-cheat service (Valorant)
vgc.exe is the 1682nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 503 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Riot Vanguard and it is most often launched by services.exe.
1682nd
most commonly executed Windows program
503
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Riot Vanguard97.02%
- C:\Users\...2.98%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 9f88b355423c43c188b05562c7d0995626ba29694ed0d61e7caf6e6c32a275c824.45%
- 34455e3feec7a91747d8bed2658c5dde60d6e508ea2b8ca2fad2493931c9e84319.09%
- cb5fc6e4e255322e9e57b5b3dd407a3e9bb567a41724d5a53a5b414f6ffdc78018.89%
- d13fda549a3fc071f079edf5f06d14181f21210b896e7e521c2c0f6f580cc25e12.92%
- 91d9496aa08f16ecef02efc5cc0308039ae60d40555cf67448219712f2bc2bde12.33%
- 0badb38cab53e08ce33f4248b39a2b468b3425ce4885ee64714be5e9575d74b66.56%
- 3d94f94a9093ca713ae7868c8112c708a51448765a9d8fce05b837020ed73fcb2.98%
- cac615e7ac92c6082794abbdeed6d6ef56c08970a4ddaa0a1084079c7a97699f1.19%
- 9379664a2c483dab6fd29f41d35f12fc3a022518f47e7d0c65e0fe269103967d0.99%
- ed5ab2d4e03e78ba6c2968b034f6a79f0df7de7b14b58288e76eb745aab9d7a90.6%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- services.exe96.02%
- installer.exe3.98%
Top Children
- cmd.exe83.33%
- WerFault.exe16.67%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.