when CoD players got banned by Steam's mistake) but they do crap like that?
VAC has sainthood status now, Valve social media staff often tells people it's 100% foolproof and bans are never appealed, people who claim they were unfairly banned are shitted on by the community and it's undisputable (although there were overturns i.e. my compiled Pascal and C++ programs) and claim the reason was "unknown low spread program" (yes, that happened, because clearly, unknown program = virus). This is bullshit, will be defeated now instantly that it came out and on the level of dumb antiviruses that delete exes (i.e. Person's OS (not even Steam) username is not a cheat (and Steam frankly has 0 reason to examine its name in any way for any purpose, for installing games just pasting will do and for everything else there is a Steam username). Or reinstall my TF2 and get banned so then I can tell you to stick it. Then perhaps I should make a fork that uses your username to get you banned and then proceed spit in your face when it happens and tell you it's your fault. Their response has been pretty similar too - "Works as intended, go away, we don't care". Steam was known to erase your entire machine (or at least what your current user had access to - so most likely all you data) because of lazy programming and hardwired assumptions (see here. It is not the first time Valve got caught by doing dumb/lazy stuff like this. How "effective" this approach is is very much documented by the fact that as soon as the botters caught wind of this they have changed the username they use and Valve can play a game of cat & mouse with them now.
#HACK HOW TO REMOVE VAC BAN ON STEAM SOFTWARE#
Unfortunately, it seems that Valve's software doesn't bother to actually check whether the machine has any malware installed, it bans anyone who has any account on the machine that matches a regexp. There could be a ton of reasons why someone could have an account like that on the machine - be it someone's name, maybe some AI project, perhaps a robotic feline, who knows. Username is not a signature of malware by itself. The problem is that everything is wrong here. The most problematic issue I see for Valve is not the lack of measurement of precision and recall for their VAC ban signatures, but rather the inability to obsess over their customer experience and react properly when relevant issues in their products are reported. So long-term, the signature is poor on both recall and precision.) (I said "had" because the recall rate is going to drop when the string gets changed by the cheat authors. In this case, the signature had good recall but poor precision, as those threads describe cases that make it plausible to have a "catbot*" username without cheating. Recall is the ratio between correctly-identified cheaters and the total number of cheaters in the system. Precision is the ratio between correctly-identified cheaters and the total number of people matched by the signature. A "legitimate" signature (or, for a better word, a good-performing signature) is one that performs well on both precision and recall ( ).
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