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Games like Dota2, TF2 and all competitive multiplayer games will have VAC. Which means Steam is pretty much NSAing a lot of Steam users out there.

This post has been edited by pikachu01: Feb 17 2014, 10:41 PM

i saw this at /v

someone rage quit Steam totally

Can't really get what VAC mean, and what is the effect?

I hope people just don't ignore this since it's Valve..
What if this was EA... it would mean the end of the world.

This post has been edited by Rei7: Feb 17 2014, 10:46 PM

in short, just rmb this

VALVE WATCHES WHAT YOU DO EVERYTIME YOU GAME

VAC stands for Valve Anti-Cheat. It's a watchdog that looks through your processes to look for rootkits/hacks that helps you cheat in competitive multiplayer games. They've gone one step ahead by parsing your DNS entries (you query a DNS every time you enter a new website). So if you enter www.omgwtfbbqp0rnofmylifechicksetc.com, Valve will pretty much know about it.

Sudah got ways to prevent them from reading our website url?
Like this Valve boleh jadi the next google.

Can't be circumvented unless you stop using Steam VAC enabled games entirely.

Got it now, if I doesn't go for any website during game then any data of mine will send to them?

No, DNS entries stay stored in your OS for around a day (varies). If you're running a VAC-enabled game during that day, it'll upload all the entries (hashed though) to Valve's servers to be examined.

If it's EA, I think a few notable YouTube celebrities would've made videos and petitions will be up at that very moment itself.

A few days later you would have drama/popcorn time like how it is with Totalbiscuit and his ever growing dev "friends".

Oh, means if I dun wan to give them my data I can only play offline? what when I didn't play games but just online on steam? will they get my data continuously too?

VAC is only activated when you play a VAC-enabled game.

You can see the list of games here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Anti-Cheat

This post has been edited by pikachu01: Feb 17 2014, 11:02 PM

problem is, the games with VAC are games that require internet to be fun

OH! haha, thought every game, then it will not affect me much

Well then, that whatever we browse they can see it? Hmmm, welp can't say I'm disturbed. Just the other week met some hacker sniper in TF2. The one that shoot through anything and get headshots. So all's well that end well.

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since steam got the gift link for us to send out the game to others, then why not give the cd key instead?got any different?

VAC getting much more terrible. Lots of cheater out there.

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