Cheat on another account can make your main account banned?

[akd]

CSGO is now free and I have some curiosity about the non prime scene. So i decided to make a free acount on CSGO and also try some free cheats to experience how it feels like to cheat (casual btw). I use the cheat on an USB Drive. After playing for about 1.5 hour, I logged out and delete the cheat. I never logged back in to the account since then. It was about 2 - 3 days ago. Today, I played with my friends on my main acount (this account). Mid game I got Vac Ban. So I'm curious to what happen. Did valve track my IP from my cheated alt? or something else?

P.S. I also downloaded cheat engine (literally today) just to mess around on some clicking games and it was not opened when I got banned. Is that also the cause of the ban?

2nd P.S. After the ban, I got a system message from my antivirus that i have a malware or adware or something. Is that also the reason that I got banned?

I just want to know the cause of the ban that's all. I'll accept whatever the consequences is.

[Snaggle]

VAC does not ban by IP address. It does ban if your accounts are connected by mobile number or game library however. Sounds like you might not have fully removed the cheat and it was detected when you played on your other account.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4044-qdhj-5691

[Supafly]

Originally posted by november:

experience how it feels like to cheat (casual btw).

Like that makes it any better.

You linked your accounts. Tracking IP is worthless as it's easy enough to spoof your IP, change it or mask it.

Vac detected the cheat on the account you cheated on while you played it. Free cheats are well known to VAC.

Malware is also quite common with free cheats. It's the payment you give to the suppliers of the cheats. They get to screw with and maybe profit from what ever they get from your system.

[Snivy]

Just clicking delete on a cheat may not be enough to fully get rid of it. Possibly they are filled with viruses and maleware.

Even the Support page tells you to fully format your entire OS to be sure that there will be no further consequences.

Nevertheless you cannot complain, you wanted to know how cheating feels like. The ban makes this scenario just even more realistic.

[vadim]

There are only two cases when two different acvount can get ban for the same violation:
1. Accounts have the same phone number
2. One account has acccess to tge game where it uses cheats via Family sharing

Latter is not the case for CS:GO.

[akd]

Ok thanks for the replies. I will be more careful in the future.

[Snivy]

Originally posted by november:

Ok thanks for the replies. I will be more careful in the future.

Now go reformat your OS. Start back from zero.