Kromis
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This is slightly OT, but aren't a lot of "wall hacks" just making some textures clear so you can see through them?
Except you can't use them if the server doesn't allow you to modified content
This is slightly OT, but aren't a lot of "wall hacks" just making some textures clear so you can see through them?
I have never used anything Steam...SP or MP...but this whole concept of No reversals and 100% accuracy seems too perfect...
Is VAC some Neuro-NET processor? a 'learning computer' >-)
Does someone (human) make a judgment or is it all automatic...the system recognizes an anomaly in the system (the matrix) and automatically triggers the ban on the account in XXX seconds...
Is there ever a brief or detailed description of WHY you were banned vs. the 'denied' message
I have never used anything Steam...SP or MP...but this whole concept of No reversals and 100% accuracy seems too perfect...
Is VAC some Neuro-NET processor? a 'learning computer' >-)
Does someone (human) make a judgment or is it all automatic...the system recognizes an anomaly in the system (the matrix) and automatically triggers the ban on the account in XXX seconds...
Is there ever a brief or detailed description of WHY you were banned vs. the 'denied' message
It should also be noted VAC doesn't ban immediately either. You can use a known hack for days, weeks, even months before you're banned. The cheaters, who people love to refer to as hackers (which they deserve no such credit), simply download the hacks from some skill programmer who has chosen to share their work. There will be cheaters who may never get banned, at least from MW2. They could have subtle, homemade cheats and never get detected. Now, with admin support on a dedicated server they could be banned from the server easily.VAC isn't an algorithm. It's Valve engineers investigating known cheats, dissecting them and how they effect the .exe when they're injected, and then programming VAC to find that particular signature. So somehow the OP's .exe was altered to match that of a .exe that has been injected with a known hack. So the method has no false positives.
It's the biggest plus and the biggest minus of VAC. The good news is that it never bans someone that didn't deserve it. The bad news is that it takes time for the Valve engineers to discover and account for the hack, so someone running a new hack can go crazy on servers for weeks or months before they get dealt with. VAC isn't used as the only anti-hack tool for all games except MW2. Everything else has got something like local admin, votekick, voteban, or Punkbuster going on. So there's a way to deal with hackers immediately and eventually VAC will kick in and bring down the perma-hammer. MW2 only has VAC. So you have to suffer the hackers until VAC kicks in, if ever.
Steam/Valve is pretty heavy handed when it comes to cheats, even if it's a false positive. I'd be more surprised if they lifted the ban. But good luck :]
Steam requires three positive checks of a cheat, generally this helps prevent "false positives."
Sorry for your loss. Can you still play games from other engines? I believe it only effects games of the same engine at a time.
I had a guy in my clan get banned from cod4 and cod5 for having a single player hack for Empire Total War that gave him gold. It is entirely possible to get falsely accused for having certain things in your RAM that get flagged by the anticheat. Even Balance refused to lift his ban and he was going as far as asking them if he could get on a plane and come demonstrate what caused his ban.
Because no system is perfect. I am not saying it did or didn't happen (in the OP, and ETW), but this 100% accuracy thing is total and complete BS.Why would a cheat for ETW hook the same information as a hack for COD?
I had a guy in my clan get banned from cod4 and cod5 for having a single player hack for Empire Total War that gave him gold. It is entirely possible to get falsely accused for having certain things in your RAM that get flagged by the anticheat. Even Balance refused to lift his ban and he was going as far as asking them if he could get on a plane and come demonstrate what caused his ban.
I had a guy in my clan get banned from cod4 and cod5 for having a single player hack for Empire Total War that gave him gold. It is entirely possible to get falsely accused for having certain things in your RAM that get flagged by the anticheat. Even Balance refused to lift his ban and he was going as far as asking them if he could get on a plane and come demonstrate what caused his ban.