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Does VAC ban ever go away?

VAC bans are permanent, non-negotiable, and cannot be removed by Steam Support. If a VAC ban is determined to have been issued incorrectly it will automatically be removed. If you wish to discuss Valve Anti-Cheat with the community, you may do so here.
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How long does it take for a VAC ban to go away?

Social impact. The user's Steam profile is also marked with "ban(s) on record", which is publicly visible and cannot be hidden, regardless of the profile visibility of the banned account. VAC bans become hidden to other users after seven years of not getting another VAC ban.
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What is the oldest VAC ban ever?

VAC's initial release was with Counter-Strike in 2002. During this initial release, the system only banned players for 24 hours. The duration of the ban was increased over time; players were banned for 1 year and 5 years, until VAC2 was released in 2005, when any new bans became permanent.
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Are Steam game bans permanent?

Regardless of who was using the account at the time the ban was issued, game bans are permanent and are not removed.
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How do I remove permanent bans from Steam?

VAC bans are permanent and cannot be removed from an account. If a VAC ban has been issued incorrectly it will automatically be rolled back by the VAC team.
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WHAT TO DO IF YOU GET VAC BANNED IN CSGO!!

What is the longest bans in gaming?

The mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia, even went so far as to smash pinball machines during a press conference. Most bans were lifted by the early 1970s, but New York stood firm until 1976, which, at 34 years, makes it the longest ban in gaming history.
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How bad is a VAC ban?

VAC bans prevent you from playing on secured servers across all of Steam. Server administrators may issue a Server ban, but these are not as severe as a VAC ban. We cannot prevent Server bans at Valve; whoever runs the server can ban players for any reason they desire.
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Can you sell with VAC ban?

Depending on the severity of the violation, you may receive a temporary or permanent trade ban. If a VAC Ban, cooldown or overwatch ban has been registered on your account, you will no longer have access to the CS:GO store, or be able to make trades for CS:GO items, and you will no longer receive item drops.
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Is VAC ban worse than game ban?

VAC bans are permanent and cannot be removed from an account. If a VAC ban has been issued incorrectly it will automatically be rolled back by the VAC team. You can learn more about Valve Anti-Cheat here. Game Bans are used by game developers to address malicious behavior that falls outside of VAC detection.
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Does a VAC ban disappear after 7 years?

VAC bans are permanent, non-negotiable, and cannot be removed by Steam Support. If a VAC ban is determined to have been issued incorrectly it will automatically be removed. If you wish to discuss Valve Anti-Cheat with the community, you may do so here.
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Why did I get VAC banned for no reason?

all VAC bans come from the detection of a known cheat, whether it is used on the account itself or some sort of sharing has occurred (account, library or phone number). Users are responsible for the security of the account and all that happens on it.
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Can you get VAC banned twice?

As stated, you CANNOT get VAC banned in the same game twice.
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Does Steam VAC ban IP?

No it does not ban by IP, it bans the account only. Banning by IP, or hardware is useless due to how easily they can be spoof from user end, which why it's pointless banning that way.
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How do you bypass a VAC?

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  1. Close Steam client if open.
  2. Disconnect from the internet.
  3. Run Steam as Administrator.
  4. Inject VAC-Bypass. dll into Steam.exe process.
  5. After successful injection messagebox saying Initialization was successful! ...
  6. Reconnect to the internet.
  7. Press Retry in steam window saying 'Could not connect to Steam servers'.
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Does a VAC ban lock your inventory?

If you receive a VAC ban in Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, or Half-Life 2 all your items will be removed from your Team Fortress 2 inventory.
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How does VAC detect cheats?

It uses Signature Scanning to detect possible cheats when scanning the computer's memory and processes. Whenever an anomaly is detected, an incident report is created and compared to a database of banned applications and/or analyzed by Valve engineers.
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Can I trade my skins after VAC ban?

Nope, If your account is marked with a VAC ban any items in your inventory under the category CSGO are non-tradeable. VAC itself has nothing to do with account/trading limitations, and bypassing VAC after you have got a ban in the specific game will not let you trade away any items.
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Can you play other games if you are VAC banned?

A: No. VAC and Game bans should only prevent the user from playing on VAC secured servers in the game they received a ban in. A permanent ban should only be issued for your game if the user was caught cheating in your game.
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Why are high end gaming PC banned?

Niche Gamer reports Oregon is joining California, Vermont, Hawaii, Colorado and Washington state in banning the products because of the large amount of electricity they use.
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What 6 states banned gaming PCs?

What 6 states banned gaming PCs? At the end of July 2021, Alienware (owned by Dell) started making headlines when some of its prebuilt Aurora R10 and R12 gaming PCs suddenly became unavailable to customers in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.
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What was the worst year for gaming?

Top 10 Worst Years In Gaming History
  1. 1 1983 1983 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1983rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations. ...
  2. 2 2006 2006 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2006th year based on the Common Era/Anno Domini designations.
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What is permanent ban?

(Internet slang, transitive) To ban (a user) permanently.
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Can Steam ban you for too many refunds?

yes you can be banned from steam for exploiting their refund system.
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How do you know if someone is VAC banned?

VacList allows you to view and track Steam accounts and their ban status. You can search for accounts by either their SteamID, community URL, or vanity name. Logging in through Steam allows you to track accounts and view their ban status over time.
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