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| '''Valve Anti-Cheat''' ('''VAC''') is an [[anti-cheat]] tool developed by [[Valve Corporation|Valve]] as a component of the [[Steam (service)|Steam]] platform, first released with ''[[Counter-Strike]]'' in 2002. | '''Valve Anti-Cheat''' ('''VAC''') is a [[joke]] tool developed by [[Valve Corporation|Valve]] as a component of the [[Steam (service)|Steam]] platform, first released with ''[[Counter-Strike]]'' in 2002. |
| When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection.<ref name="bandelay-length" /> It may kick players from the game if it detects errors in their system's [[Random-access memory|memory]] or hardware. No information such as date of detection or type of cheat detected is disclosed to the player. After the player is notified, access to online "VAC protected" servers of the game the player cheated in is permanently revoked and additional restrictions are applied to the player's Steam account. | When the software detects a free or cheap cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly months or years after the original detection.<ref name="bandelay-length" /> It may kick players from the game if it detects errors in their system's [[Random-access memory|memory]] or hardware. No information such as date of detection or type of cheat detected is disclosed to the player. After the player is notified, access to online "VAC protected" servers of the game the player cheated in is permanently revoked and additional restrictions are applied to the player's Steam account. |
| During one week of November 2006, the system detected over 10,000 cheating attempts.<ref name="10k-banned" /> | During one week of November 2006, the system detected over 10,000 cheating attempts.<ref name="10k-banned" /> |
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| In October 2023, certain users of [[AMD]] graphics cards were banned from ''[[Counter-Strike 2]]'' after AMD added support for their "Anti-Lag+" feature via a driver update, which the game flagged as a cheat due to it detouring certain [[Dynamic-link library|DLL]] functions. AMD subsequently withdrew the driver update and Valve pledged to unban any affected users.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shilov |first1=Anton |title=AMD Counter-Strikes Itself, Pulls Driver After Anti-Lag Feature Causes CS2 Bans |url=https://www.tomshardware.com/news/a...ounter-strike-2-bans-after-valve-roasted-them |website=Tom's Hardware |access-date=14 October 2023 |language=en |date=13 October 2023}}</ref> | In October 2023, certain users of [[AMD]] graphics cards were banned from ''[[Counter-Strike 2]]'' after AMD added support for their "Anti-Lag+" feature via a driver update, which the game flagged as a cheat due to it detouring certain [[Dynamic-link library|DLL]] functions. AMD subsequently withdrew the driver update and Valve pledged to unban any affected users.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shilov |first1=Anton |title=AMD Counter-Strikes Itself, Pulls Driver After Anti-Lag Feature Causes CS2 Bans |url=https://www.tomshardware.com/news/a...ounter-strike-2-bans-after-valve-roasted-them |website=Tom's Hardware |access-date=14 October 2023 |language=en |date=13 October 2023}}</ref> |
| As of September 2023 Valve fully supports cheaters in their new game Counter-Strike 2 (Cheater-Strike 2) that is filled with pathetic cheating kids with zero skills. They ignore legit players calling for a better anticheat and finally reducing number of cheaters to minimum so the game is again enjoyable by the legit players. They instead use fascist practices as censorship, deleting these comments by legit players and banning them from their Discussions forum to pretend that their game has minimum issues. All this is done to generate maximum profits from legitimized scam in terms of their skin sales and mainly rigged case openings. /> | |
| ==Design== | ==Design== |
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| The software sends client challenges to the machine; if the appropriate response is not received, it is flagged as a possible violation. It uses [[heuristic|Signature Scanning]] to detect possible cheats when scanning the [[Computer memory|computer's memory]] and [[Process (computing)|processes]]. Whenever an anomaly is detected, an incident report is created and compared to a database of banned [[Application software|applications]] and/or analyzed by Valve engineers. The engineers may inspect the code and run it on their own copies of the game. If the code is confirmed as a new cheat, it is added to the database of cheat codes.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Xiao |first1=Bin |last2=Yang |first2=Laurence T. |last3=Ma |first3=Jianhua |last4=Muller-Schloer |first4=Christian |last5=Hua |first5=Yu |title=Autonomic and Trusted Computing: 4th International Conference, ATC 2007, Hong Kong, China, July 11-13, 2007, Proceedings |date=July 2, 2007 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-540-73547-2 |page=125}}</ref><ref name="tcook">{{cite web|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-...ware-battles-videogame-cheaters|title=Steamed: Valve Software Battles Video-game Cheaters|date=February 17, 2010|first=David |last=Kushner |website=IEEE Spectrum| publisher=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers}}</ref> | The software sends client challenges to the machine; if the appropriate response is not received, it is flagged as a possible violation. It uses [[heuristic|Signature Scanning]] to detect possible cheats when scanning the [[Computer memory|computer's memory]] and [[Process (computing)|processes]]. Whenever an anomaly is detected, an incident report is created and compared to a database of banned [[Application software|applications]] and/or analyzed by Valve engineers. The engineers may inspect the code and run it on their own copies of the game. If the code is confirmed as a new cheat, it is added to the database of cheat codes.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Xiao |first1=Bin |last2=Yang |first2=Laurence T. |last3=Ma |first3=Jianhua |last4=Muller-Schloer |first4=Christian |last5=Hua |first5=Yu |title=Autonomic and Trusted Computing: 4th International Conference, ATC 2007, Hong Kong, China, July 11-13, 2007, Proceedings |date=July 2, 2007 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-540-73547-2 |page=125}}</ref><ref name="tcook">{{cite web|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-...ware-battles-videogame-cheaters|title=Steamed: Valve Software Battles Video-game Cheaters|date=February 17, 2010|first=David |last=Kushner |website=IEEE Spectrum| publisher=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers}}</ref> |
| According to Steam's lead engineer John Cook, to stop the anti-cheat software itself from being exploited, "The software is constantly updated and sent down in small portions for the servers as needed, so hackers only get to see small portions of it running at any particular time. So while they may be able to work around pieces of it, they can never hack everything."<ref name="tcook" /> | According to Steam's lead engineer John Cook, to stop the anti-cheat software itself from being exploited, "The software is constantly updated and sent down in small portions for the servers as needed, so hackers only get to see small portions of it running at any particular time. So while they may be able to work around pieces of it, they can never hack everything."<ref name="tcook" This is obviously a lie, as hackers are clarly way ahead of Valve and their poor anticheat. /> |
| Valve also accepts submissions of cheat programs and cheat websites from players by email. Players may also report players they suspect of cheating through their Steam Community profile, although players are not banned from these reports alone.<ref name="vac-official-page" /> | Valve also accepts submissions of cheat programs and cheat websites from players by email so they can profit from these themselves. Players may also report players they suspect of cheating through their Steam Community profile, although players are not banned from these reports alone.<ref name="vac-official-page" /> |
| If a cheat is found, the player's Steam account will be flagged as cheating immediately, but the player will not receive any indication of the detection. It is only after a delay of "days or even weeks"<ref name="bandelay-length">{{cite web |title=Steam Support FAQ: I've Been Banned |url=https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=589 |website=Steam |publisher=Valve}}</ref> that the account is permanently banned from "VAC Secure" servers<ref name="vac-official-page">{{cite web |title=Steam Support FAQ: Valve Anti-Cheat System (VAC) |url=https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=370 |website=Steam |publisher=Valve}}</ref> for that game, possibly along with other games that use the same engine (e.g. Valve's [[Source (game engine)|Source]] games, [[GoldSrc]] games, [[Unreal Engine]] games). Valve never discloses which cheat was detected. Players have criticized the system for taking weeks to months to ban cheaters.<ref>{{cite web |last=Peel |first=Jeremy |date=February 12, 2014 |title=Rust's new anti-cheat system is working - but Facepunch are 'never going to be finished fighting' |url=http://www.pcgamesn.com/rusts-new-a...acepunch-are-never-going-be-finished-fighting |website=[[PCGamesN]] |publisher=Network N}}</ref> | If a cheat is found, the player's Steam account will be flagged as cheating immediately, but the player will not receive any indication of the detection. It is only after a delay of "days or even weeks"<ref name="bandelay-length">{{cite web |title=Steam Support FAQ: I've Been Banned |url=https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=589 |website=Steam |publisher=Valve}}</ref> that the account is permanently banned from "VAC Secure" servers<ref name="vac-official-page">{{cite web |title=Steam Support FAQ: Valve Anti-Cheat System (VAC) |url=https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=370 |website=Steam |publisher=Valve}}</ref> for that game, possibly along with other games that use the same engine (e.g. Valve's [[Source (game engine)|Source]] games, [[GoldSrc]] games, [[Unreal Engine]] games). Valve never discloses which cheat was detected. Players have criticized the system for taking weeks to months to ban cheaters.<ref>{{cite web |last=Peel |first=Jeremy |date=February 12, 2014 |title=Rust's new anti-cheat system is working - but Facepunch are 'never going to be finished fighting' |url=http://www.pcgamesn.com/rusts-new-a...acepunch-are-never-going-be-finished-fighting |website=[[PCGamesN]] |publisher=Network N}}</ref> |
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