What Is Anti Cheat Software?

Companies have created software designed to detect the presence of stuff like am bots and that kind of thing. The anti cheat software is usually bundled with the game itself, and it's typically looking for examples of well known, identified cheat hacks. There are also server side anti cheat programmes which sit on the server you log into for multiplayer games. So every gamer who logs ito that server has this same anti cheat software that's scanning for example of hacks both client and serverside.