FYI vac also bans off of reports from 3rd pary sites were butt hurt 12 year olds rant about how they got pwned, been going on for years and there not going to stop anytime soon. MW2 community started this trend. Also never make an account on any site like ownedcore or MPGH bc if your user name matches its another flag. Lets not pretend like vac actually does the detecting on its own every body in anti cheat communities knows it doesn't and theres a reason why other games make there own as well. If it detected it it would be automatic just like in WoW or any other game that uses a real anti cheat. The reason VAC takes so long is bc it matches Algorithms that match a cheating behavior, IE supersonic key presses and such or matching computing speed where a human should be the one in control, all other forms such as exploits and actual VAC bypassing injection will only be reported by other players. The reason 90% of vac bans are validated is bc of the 3rd party reporting sites, this is also why they don't want to tell you how, bc they don't know, bc VAC is automated. And before you guys come back stating info that steam gives you ..... of course they will never tell you the truth why would they want you knowing how it It internally works? And ask yourself how it detects boosting in MW games then ? there is no modification to the .DLL or executable files to do that, yet boosters are banned daily. Same as in DOTA2, and no automated system would ever be able to figure these things out ever. Steam doesn't want you to know they employ the same tactics Blizzard has for years, which is flag you and then investigate you ( which was also a key point why Blizzard vs Bossland suit swayed and Bossland won the case). There are reasons reputable anti-cheat Devs also do offer a chance for them to look into your case further bc auto flagging is very very un-accurate at times and can throw a false positive just like an Anti Virus program can. The problem is that everyone just follows like sheep to the call of steam assuring you that it works flawlessly, even tho there the worst ranked anti cheat save a couple ( punkbuster is tied bc it uses the system). But so long as so many people are sure it works they wont fix it and do a better job which could result in faster bans and extend cheat development times so they have to charge more to discourage people from buying them in the first place. Im not on the cheaters side but I have always known that VAC needed a rework and no one looks past there nose on the subject.
just NO, and DOUBLE NO
learn how vac works before throwing out false informations...pathetic
Important:
All VAC bans are permanent - Valve has a zero-tolerance policy for cheating and will not lift VAC bans under any circumstances.
What is VAC?
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 on VAC-Secured servers in the future.
While server admins may choose to ban specific players, server admins cannot VAC ban players. The VAC system is automated - contacting Steam Support to report cheaters is not necessary, nor will Steam Support act on any information provided.
The VAC system reliably detects cheats using their cheat signatures. Any third-party modification to a game designed to give one player an advantage over another is classified as a cheat or hack and will trigger a VAC ban. This includes modifications to a game's core executable files and dynamic link libraries.
Note:
VAC does not ban based on reports. Such data is only used for tracking and statistics purposes.
It is confirmed that if a user generates enough cheat reports from report violation on their community profile - vac will scan them earlier and more aggressively (vac doesn't scan everyone, it scans everyone over time - hence why some people last a bit longer than others)
I'd search you the post on SPUF by a valve employee but that'd require effort and personally I don't care about you
more bullshit please