If found by VAC, then details of the matching DNS entries would be sent to Valve’s VAC servers. The details would be checked one final time, and that client would be marked for a future ban.

Over the weekend, it emerged that Valve's Anti-Cheat software (VAC) was scanning your computer's internet history and reporting a list of visited websites back to Valve. Obviously, the internet ...

If you know just one thing about Valve's Anti-Cheat system (VAC), you probably know that a ban issued through it lasts forever. As Valve's support page lays out clearly, "VAC bans are permanent ...

Over 60,000 Steam accounts were banned by Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) on Tuesday, July 17, marking the largest VAC wave in the platform’s history. But it was on Wednesday morning that the banhammer ...

Valve managing director Gabe Newell does not, it turns out, want to know what weird, horrifying things you do on the Internet when you’re not playing games through the company’s Steam service.

A user on Reddit has posted a decompiled module that claims Valve's anti-cheat service, VAC, is quietly going through your browser history and sending results back to its servers. Something Valve ...

Valve has updated its new multiplayer game Deadlock to let players turn cheaters into a frog.. Deadlock is a hero shooter that’s like a mash-up of all Valve’s previous games, including Team ...

Valve started swinging the banhammer on cheaters Wednesday, banning about 28,000 players. The Valve Anti-Cheat System (VAC) is an automated process which detects cheats installed on player computers.

Half-Life: Alyx is out today. Wild. It's been over a decade since we returned to the world of Half-Life, and Valve is making sure our first moments booting up the game are defined by raw fear.

GamingOnLinux highlights the document's 'Powered by SteamOS' logo, brand guidelines, and Valve's instructions regarding when and where to use this artwork on devices and packaging.

Non-cheating gamers were flagged as cheaters by a mistake with the Valve Anti-Cheat feature of Valve's Steamworks suite, which Modern Warfare 2 uses.