
To be specific, it usually looks for aimbots, map hacks, and any other utilities that could possibly give you an unfair advantage by breaking the rules of a multiplayer game. Its memory scanning technology works like an antivirus program as it objectively scrutinizes your computer system for any potential cheating program. Dozens of titles, millions of players, and hundreds of thousands of cheaters have proven its monitoring, detecting, and banning capabilities.

This small effort started in September 2000 when issues of online cheating are massively growing.

PunkBuster's anti-cheat system supports tons of major proprietary game engines from well-known game developers such as Electronic Arts Inc., Ubisoft, Sony Online Entertainment LLC, and many more.
