Informations

When you get VAC banned, not all your games in your Steam Account get banned, you only get banned from a game engine.

Click here for the full list of games which uses VAC.

Example :

• If you cheated in Counter Strike 1.6, you'll be banned from the HL1 engine (Counter Strike 1.6, CS: Condition Zero, Half Life, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress Classic, etc)
• If you cheated in Counter Strike Source, you'll be banned from the EP1/Orange box engine (Counter Strike Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Team Fortress 2, etc)
• If you cheated in Left 4 Dead, you'll be banned from the Left 4 Dead only
• If you cheated in Red Orchestra, you'll be banned from Red Orchestra only
• If you cheated in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, you'll be banned from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 only

Since VAC2 (2005), all VAC bans are permanent. Before, with VAC1, there used to be 5 year bans and 1 year bans. Some people have been unbanned recently because they had 5 year VAC1 bans, and we got them in our database because their VAC status was checked by our site before their unban. Those who have been recently unbanned can be found in the VAC unbanned list.

There are other reasons why some people might be in unbanned list :

• It is a Cybercafe account which was VAC banned and then unbanned because the Cybercafe owner requested it
• It is a testing account of the VAC developers
• It was a VAC false positive and VALVe recognized it (rare case)
• The account has been hijacked and Steam support removed the ban (rare case)

Some Steam accounts have been deleted because they had no games and no one logged into them in a long time.
But, you might ask, why are they VAC banned if they had no games? That's because they had a game using VAC with Guest passes, free weekends, etc.