VALVe Cracking Down On Cheaters

Posted by arsen at 15:08 13/4/2004.

As yet another VAC update hits our screens, it appears the top bods at Valve are working harder than ever to rid their game of the cheaters and hackers that infest CS.

As our resident configing/hacking smartarse, Seaweed recently pointed out in one of his columns, Valve have been successful in stamping out many hacks almost as soon as they are made public. At long last it appears Valve may be winning the war against the hackers and in an attempt to deal them another blow, Valve's Nick Shaffner has announced a bounty on their heads.

In true Ransom style, Nick revealed plans to offer a prize (non-monetary) to anyone who could give them information on any un-detected hacks or BETA versions of un-released cheats. He also made it clear that using cheats of any kind is a violation of the standard End User License Agreement.

So if you happen to know of any 'dirty' hacks in the pipeline, E-Mail Nick right now, before someone else claims your prize!

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Ripper
Rush!
15:08 13/4/2004
crack [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
`Spectre
Intrigue
15:08 13/4/2004
good job [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
arsen
Head Arse
UKTerrorist
15:08 13/4/2004

(This was an automated post)

As yet another VAC update hits our screens, it appears the top bods at Valve are working harder than ever to rid their game of the cheaters and hackers that infest CS.

As our resident configing/hacking smartarse, Seaweed recently pointed out in one of his columns, Valve have been successful in stamping out many hacks almost as soon as they are made public. At long last it appears Valve may be winning the war against the hackers and in an attempt to deal them another blow, Valve's Nick Shaffner has announced a bounty on their heads.

In true Ransom style, Nick revealed plans to offer a prize (non-monetary) to anyone who could give them information on any un-detected hacks or BETA versions of un-released cheats. He also made it clear that using cheats of any kind is a violation of the standard End User License Agreement.

So if you happen to know of any 'dirty' hacks in the pipeline, E-Mail Nick right now, before someone else claims your prize!

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ryano
theb0g
15:08 13/4/2004
Maybe with the decline in popularity of cs and the increase in valves measures to protect there is no incentive to hack cs. Especially with the impending release of Half Life 2.

I also heard that hackers have plans to foil Valve by having a whole string of cheats waiting for Half Life 2, made through the leaked version of the game.

That would certainly be a blow considering Doom being released at the same time. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
zui
15:10 13/4/2004
show me the money ill tell you where the cheats are [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
cobbeh
fluid element
15:10 13/4/2004
ok [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Hairy
Rush!
15:11 13/4/2004
No but i got a number for ray mallom.. hes the super cop around our way [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
w1cked
Croydon
15:11 13/4/2004
w00t! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Roar^
15:12 13/4/2004
GL VAC, actually doing something about cheaters is always a good thing. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ColdAsIce
ImaGine
15:16 13/4/2004
ul team accused. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
dbz
15:20 13/4/2004
would be nice if ppl actually put vac back onto there servers now

pld loads of pcw's on non vac servers last couple days people hacking there tits off [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Seaweed
15:21 13/4/2004
safe ¬_¬ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Landen
Point Five-O
15:30 13/4/2004
ohh good job. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
MaCcA^
15:31 13/4/2004
quality [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Venomous
BLACKLiGHT
15:33 13/4/2004
hehe, so now they are going to create their own cheats and give them in to valve for prizes? awesome :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Wardie
15:33 13/4/2004
Maybe with the decline in popularity of cs and the increase in valves measures to protect there is no incentive to hack cs. Especially with the impending release of Half Life 2.
I also heard that hackers have plans to foil Valve by having a whole string of cheats waiting for Half Life 2, made through the leaked version of the game.

That would certainly be a blow considering Doom being released at the same time.

Not true, that is why the game was further delayed, so they could preent this from happening by editing the code slightly. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Undone^
ForsakeN
15:34 13/4/2004
most sensible thing you've ever said dbz [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
dbz
15:34 13/4/2004
s***loads of ppl took vac off there servers becoz it locked interp to 0.05 -0.1 and affected bullit reg

in the last vac update u can now set terp below 0.05 [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
spicyjj
15:40 13/4/2004
hairy; you may have his number, but you sure don't know his name. It's Ray Mallon aka. Robocop who cut crime in Middlesbrough by 18% in his first year as one of only 12 elected Mayors within the UK.

Excellent. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
abom
15:42 13/4/2004
a million pounds says in a few weeks they cracked it valve are s*** w**kers [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Ogg^
#Harmless
15:55 13/4/2004
s*** :x [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
AGeNt7eVeN
Clan Dirty
16:00 13/4/2004
[cheat site url edited out]

[cheat site] all ready tells them, what is and isnt detected? why not just visit cheat sites on a regular basis?

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[cheat site] SAYS:
At this point, I'm only interested in things not readily available via web search engines. I'm particularly interested in unreleased beta versions of major cheat programs.

- Nick
==============

What does VAC do anyway? ban Steam ID's? and for how long?

[Edited by arsen at 18:58, 13/4/2004] [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Hairy
Rush!
16:01 13/4/2004
Yeah spicy thats him.. he used to go to my gym and bench press transit vans [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
dL
Atari.Crew
16:01 13/4/2004
................... [ Score: -1, pointless | Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ensnare
Atari.Crew
16:01 13/4/2004
if only they updated it on a weekly basis :[ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Hairy
Rush!
16:02 13/4/2004
Or you could post cheat websites for everyone! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
dL
Atari.Crew
16:03 13/4/2004
maybe if they just invented some kind of super cheat worthy of pro wrestlers which picked up config cheats aswell

then just gave the hacker/configger a really harsh super ban which would ruin their job in the WWE [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
AGeNt7eVeN
Clan Dirty
16:05 13/4/2004
isn't there a global ban list? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Farley
quintessential
16:06 13/4/2004
Hopefully this will bring back people to the game, as the rapid decline in intrest for cs is not nice to see :(

gl VAC, and yeah they do check cheat sites, duh :P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
naan
16:09 13/4/2004
lol.exe still works like a dream tbh! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
cindy
16:10 13/4/2004
gg.

fact is software is created by humans and can be manipulated by humans. simple as.

But it is good that they are starting to crack down on hacks, havent seen which ones are blocked but i hope the OGC intelligence versions have been stopped after like half a year of not being detected. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
OverlordRob
Asylum.uk
16:21 13/4/2004
the decline in interest is not a cheat related thing...CS has been cheat infested for years now...people are just getting bored of lpaying the same maps over and over again and at the same slow pace

bring back 1.3 :) give us some fun on public again

it has to be said i havent seen a blatent cheat in a while though which is nice..and yes playing pcws on non vac servers is alwasy dodgy...avoid [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
dL
Atari.Crew
16:21 13/4/2004
give all hackers a rock bottom as punishment [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
AGeNt7eVeN
Clan Dirty
16:25 13/4/2004
ROFL @ Cindy's Previous Clans!

I had a cheat on our server the other day, by the name of SkiP we gave him a 1 day ID BAN, then about 4 days later there was another odd looking player and we asked him if his name was SkiP, lol @ his reply?

"If I tell the truth what will happen?"

Lol instant ban for skip, cheats are easy to spot, they have amazing aim but crap game sense? they dont look at the spots they should be covering! Have stupid high sensitivity noob things like that... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
TonyMontana
IEO
16:26 13/4/2004
Followed by a people's elbow tbh

As for public, I think CSDM is far superior :> [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
cindy
16:30 13/4/2004
^^ CSDM is mental and deserves to be banned. People spawning behind u just sucks :( [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
dL
Atari.Crew
16:41 13/4/2004
maybe get RVD to give them a fivestar-frogsplash after the peoples elbow is done, just to make sure they dont do it again

pro wrestlers @ cs 4eva! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Bodkin
2seXeh 2perfoRm
16:53 13/4/2004
"cheats are easy to spot..."

...numbers in their name!!!! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Tunny
Jay Bee Eye!
16:53 13/4/2004
Are the prizes good enough to justify me creating new cheats? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Demun
got:Game
16:57 13/4/2004
Vac updates, so cheats update , its like a nights work for hackers :i dont think there ever get rid of it tbh [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Necroboy
fightclubclan
17:10 13/4/2004
The difference this time is they have caught out alot of cheaters who have hopefully had their cd keys banned.

Anyone know how the ban system works now? It used to be somethings stupid like 3-4 warnings before a permanent ban. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Seaweed
17:17 13/4/2004
/me designs cheat reports it and wins a car [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
dbz
17:27 13/4/2004
its hard to get hold of a working cd key most of the hacked keys have already been registered on steam so basically if u aint got a spare key that aint been registered ur f***ed [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
polaris
church
17:36 13/4/2004
Just buy Half Life, it must be so cheap now they're giving it away for free. It's gone platinum whatever, it's been voted game of the year etc.

I bought it about 6 months ago when steam came out for £9.99 from PCworld :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
polaris
church
17:37 13/4/2004
Also apparently if you get VAC banned and then create a new steam account, you can play yet again. They're only rumours i've heard but I mean I'm not sure how VAC works, I think it bans your steamid and not your cdkey. Which is well, very f***ing stupid. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Stevenson
17:42 13/4/2004
haha I've looking on [a cheat site], and the amount of whining, hormonal children who've been caught out is hilarious.

Some cheat named Slay0r had constantly been re-released and again caught out within a matter of hours.

The amount of people banned in them hours thinking the new cheat updates were safe, must have been comical :)

[Edited by arsen at 17:43, 13/4/2004] [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Stevenson
17:45 13/4/2004
Thanks for that arsen, i won't do it again i promise! :P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Wolfie
WanadooWolfie
17:49 13/4/2004
was on a server this morning and every other minute, there was a 'xxxxxxxxx disconnected from secure server'.
Thought VAC was having a breakdown or something, just quite sad how many people do have cheats on their computer. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Hairy
Rush!
17:50 13/4/2004
arsen on the ball :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Seaweed
17:52 13/4/2004
polaris that isnt true, although for the first month or so of steam it wasnt verifying cd keys so you could indeed just register a new account with the same key. However that was fixed ages ago and duplicate accounts deleted. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Seaweed
17:53 13/4/2004
the amount of whinging on the hacking sites is proper funny, i say the ukt massive invades one of their forums. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
St00piD
Intrigue
17:53 13/4/2004
s*** we're f***ed [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
polaris
church
17:55 13/4/2004
Well that's what I've heard, I mean let's ask someone who got busted as they'd be able to tell us o [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Seaweed
17:55 13/4/2004
its true just look on the cheat site forums mate they're all begging for cd keys [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
polaris
church
17:56 13/4/2004
I don't know any sites, or want to look at them :o [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Seaweed
17:57 13/4/2004
k well trust me and stop spreading slander :x [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Stevenson
18:00 13/4/2004
lol seaweed i've already invaded a few [cheat sites]giving them a bit of abuse for having nothing better to do with their lives.

Seems like the cheaters are all worried as to what they will have to do in the future if they can't get their skill in a zip file.

ROLL ON THE VALVE WAR MACHINE. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
polaris
church
18:02 13/4/2004
I trust you, the first person that comes to my mind when you say .cfg is Seeeeeewead :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
FLOOiD
18:03 13/4/2004
Other night played 3 pcws, 1 player out the first, and then a player out the third got vac banned the next day.

Funny how one of the players was dreaM, and after we drew with his clan they all joined our channel HAHAHA YOU'RE s*** HAHAHAHA. Yes well done.

And the amount of players caught on public is amazing, it's like I'll join, and while I'm buying some poor c*** will get banned, then as I'm running to a bombsite someone else will get banned. Comedy.

ul intrigue you guys are gonna be f***ed!

:D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ReCoN^
18:13 13/4/2004
Guess ill stick to configing then [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
dL
Atari.Crew
18:20 13/4/2004
everyone accuses everyone... why even bother just let the anti cheats do their job and stfu if you have nothing of value to contribute

either that or stone cold steve austin will pay you a visit in the months to come [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
David Smith
Infinity-eSports
18:24 13/4/2004
I hate cheats just as much as I hate whining players. I can't stand idiots who shout cheat when a decent player enters their game and wipes out their team single handedly with a few well placed USP shots. It’s not hard to do in a world of public servers full of stupid inexperienced players, and then the even more inexperienced admin shows his ugly head and bans the only decent player from the game for cheating. That winds me up and it’s the reason I only play LAN and on private servers with people I know.

What’s needed as well as increased anti cheat functions is adequate admins who do their jobs properly. Yeah you can't admin a server 24/7 but while there is no admin available lock it off as a private server.

Maybe a GUI derived report cheat function could be implemented easily enough in to the current GUI, so players with some knowledge of what is happening can cast their opinions on who is cheating and report/vote ban them with a majority vote.

Personally I know of several Windows operating system flaws that allow for transparency related benefits for CounterStrike. They are not even cheats; they are Windows faults and can't be detected through VAC or any other anti-cheat gateway.

No matter what Valve does there will always be someone out there with an advantage. The fewer of them out there the better but there will always be someone.

What it comes down to is better report features and better administration features built in to Counterstrike would be just as beneficial as anti-cheat updates.

As for those dumb admins out there who are quick to ban a player using skill rather than cheats, grow up!

I say bollox to cheats and dumb admins!

Time will tell if what Valve plan to do will have any good results but I expect we will still be in the same position next year.......And the year after........Etc. Still stuck with poor admins and too many cheats.

:/ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
MonkH
18:26 13/4/2004
Bodkin
2seXeh 2perfoRm
16:53, 13/4/2004 "cheats are easy to spot..."
...numbers in their name!!!!


like 2s2p? :P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Loxam
Lite
18:31 13/4/2004
Quick, to GOOGLE! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Anisty-
Prozac
18:31 13/4/2004
you're so boring david [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Loxam
Lite
18:32 13/4/2004
CS-Manager, the non-cheat ridden cs! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
w00kie
euthanasia
18:35 13/4/2004
numbers in your name is so 80's [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
-Naz-
fightclubclan
18:45 13/4/2004
cheats are about as easy to spot as crap clans [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
beLL
18:46 13/4/2004
whats a name of a cheat site forum plz, i dont play cs but wanna read the s*** they say. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ColdAsIce
ImaGine
18:48 13/4/2004
beLL @ google? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
beLL
19:02 13/4/2004
come on u must no loads :x [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Seaweed
19:23 13/4/2004
jsut got an email back from valve nice to see they're actually reading and monitoring everything. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Otis
Rush!
19:30 13/4/2004
seaweed, GLC are f***ing class, serious dude, cheers for pointing them out :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Seaweed
19:46 13/4/2004
lol Otis nps spread the word /me mcdonalds for sunday lunch [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
N3M-
endeffect
20:10 13/4/2004
/me creates some hacks and e-mails valve :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
jammin
20:21 13/4/2004
Bell forgive me for asking but if you dont play cs why comment on UKT which is surprisingly enough a counterstrike site(hard to believe sometimes i know). Can we start taking the p*** out of C4u yet im bored of cheat stuff. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
RuLe|
20:37 13/4/2004
wp valve caught a few people out already, not mentioning any names dreaM :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
PFCalcio
THX
20:59 13/4/2004
Instant lifelong ban for all cheats. Australian Olympic Committee have got the right attitude ... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
$aVa$
ImaGine
21:04 13/4/2004
lol at that dreaM guy, he's one of these players cheating his ass off vs you and still cannot beat your clan, then joins your irc channel to tell you how s*** you are ...

god i love online cs

NOT! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
gand
21:41 13/4/2004
is that a new dreaM mateys? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
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