Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)

Re:Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) by tines on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @07:01PM (#44314018)

Unlikely. Last I looked, VAC only looks at a few gross elements, like the names of the DLLs loaded into the game's process. If you don't match a blacklisted name, you're probably not detected.

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Re:Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) by fc417fc802 on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @10:30PM (#44314915)

And user account names. At least at one point you could catch a ban for having an account named "catbot" when running on a linux box. Admittedly that was probably quite a reasonable litmus test in practice even if not in principle.

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Re:Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) by antarctician on Thursday June 19, 2025 @07:54AM (#44317789)

I have a suspicion that that was FUD spread by the cheat creators. Back then I decided to test that by creating a user named like that and running Steam from there. My account did not receive a ban.

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