How can I report a hacker?

[Malfunction]

I have this guy's Steam ID, a demo of him hacking, and I can get many people to back me up. He came on my favorite pub last night while no admins were around and started speed hacking and possibly using an aimbot (a little hard to tell while he was rushing around with a Para going full auto, sometimes landing headshots, sometimes not). The server is not VAC secured yet (not sure if it ever will be), but I thought players could report other players with evidence. Any help is appreciated.

 

[Dekstar]

Nope. Valve doesn't allow things like that because it's too easy to fake. Best bet is to contact your server admin with the demo and Steam ID and get them to ban the player. Other than that you can't get them banned from the whole game until VAC2 arrives .

-Dekstar

 

[Smoke]

Unlucky, any word on when VAC2 IS going to arrive? if ever

 

[Dekstar]

Unlucky, any word on when VAC2 IS going to arrive? if ever

There was a recent news post by VALVe saying a week or so, IIRC.

 

[Malfunction]

Well, the guy and his clanmember were both banned from the server last night, but I thought they had some blacklist or something. Oh well.

 

[Dekstar]

Well, the guy and his clanmember were both banned from the server last night, but I thought they had some blacklist or something. Oh well.

Ah that could be because either:

The server was reset during that time, and so all banlists were deleted (sometimes back-ups aren't made)

Or that the cheater was banned and wanted to get revenge so he/she/it changed their Steam-ID. This means the Steam ID that's used to ban them is no longer the same and so basically they're a different person, but they're not.

 

[sinkoman]

I could've sworn that Valve had a report thingy. I found it while browsing their, rather large, faq. I remember it saying that you should have a demo of the guy doing it, or a few screenies.

I'll try to find the topic.

EDIT: Found this . Guess you guys were right.

 

[Beerdude26]

You can also post their steamid in here, I'll ban him from my server too.

 

[sinkoman]

Hey, I think all servers should have a little black book. At the bottom of the MOTD, they have a list of people who are banned, and then they share their list with other server owners, who then pass it on to others, and it keeps on going around till the guy can play on nearly no servers. Then, when admins or clan members from other servers come to play, they see the message at the bottom of the motd, and then they block them from the server too. That'd be cool no?

OR, perhaps somebody could get a site up, where a php script controlls all of the people who are banned. Then admins from other servers can register with the site. There would be a little submit form, where admins could submit people for banning, then a panel of high profile admins would review the demo the guy had, or the screenshots, and then decide if he should be banned or not. Then if they chose that he should, they add him to the ban list. Then it would be up to admins to download a small .txt file, with a small .htm file that had all the people banned in it. They use the .txt file to mass ban people from their servers, and cut and paste the code from the .htm to have at the bottom of their motd.

Then regular players could join the ban site too, and submit their bannings too.

I think that'd blow VAC outa the watter.

 

[Malfunction]

Yeah, I know every server has their own blacklist, but I thought there was a large blacklist shared universally in the CS:S community, so as to keep most cheaters out of every server.

 

[Dekstar]

Hey, I think all servers should have a little black book. At the bottom of the MOTD, they have a list of people who are banned, and then they share their list with other server owners, who then pass it on to others, and it keeps on going around till the guy can play on nearly no servers. Then, when admins or clan members from other servers come to play, they see the message at the bottom of the motd, and then they block them from the server too. That'd be cool no?

OR, perhaps somebody could get a site up, where a php script controlls all of the people who are banned. Then admins from other servers can register with the site. There would be a little submit form, where admins could submit people for banning, then a panel of high profile admins would review the demo the guy had, or the screenshots, and then decide if he should be banned or not. Then if they chose that he should, they add him to the ban list. Then it would be up to admins to download a small .txt file, with a small .htm file that had all the people banned in it. They use the .txt file to mass ban people from their servers, and cut and paste the code from the .htm to have at the bottom of their motd.

Then regular players could join the ban site too, and submit their bannings too.

I think that'd blow VAC outa the watter.

www.steambans.com is a lot like this. There was also a community for 1.6 which does almost exactly that.