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In tactical shooters, common methods of cheating including wallhacks and aimbots are often used to gain the upper hand, and it's system like VAC that stop them in their tracks. Can you recover your Steam account from a VAC ban? \"If a user connects to a VAC-Secured server from a computer with identifiable cheats installed, the VAC system will ban the user from playing that game on VAC-Secured servers in the future,\" according to Steam's official description of VAC. With this in mind, any chance you thought you might have had to get your account back after it's been VAC banned is non-existent. Unfortunately for the cheaters of the world, a Steam account cannot be used to play in competitive games after it's been VAC banned. Related: How to fix CS:GO\u2019s \u2018VAC unable to verify\u2019 error \"The VAC system reliably detects cheats using their cheat signatures,\" Steam said. \"Any third-party modifications to a game designed to give one player an advantage over another is classified as a cheat or hack and will trigger a VAC ban. This includes modifications to a game's core executable files and dynamic link libraries.\" You can find which games are VAC-enabled on Steam by searching them out, which brings up a list of at least 600 games that you can be VAC banned from. To avoid a VAC ban, don't cheat or play games on Steam on a PC that has cheats downloaded, and you'll likely be fine. 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