Idea: Feeding Overwatch program data into VAC for automatic blacklisting of cheats.

[Sebastian Nielsen]

Whats about this:
Collect the running programs from all people who are caught in overwatch. Call this collection A
Collect the running programs from all people who are deemed legit in overwatch. Call this collection B.

A - B = C

Automatically blacklist all programs in list C inside VAC, such as using these programs will trigger a VAC flag.

I think its great idea because then it will also automatically catch (and blacklist) all those "unknown" cheats (eg, private/paid ones) provided the cheaters that using these are caught in overwatch.

Yes, it will incur some false positives, eg strictly non-cheat software that cheaters (but not legit players) commonly uses will get "blacklisted" aswell, but that does really not matter, if mostly cheaters is using that non-cheat software, it does not matter if that non-cheat software is triggering VAC bans.

[BossGalaga]

Sebastian Nielsen の投稿を引用：

Whats about this:
Collect the running programs from all people who are caught in overwatch. Call this collection A
Collect the running programs from all people who are deemed legit in overwatch. Call this collection B.

A - B = C

Automatically blacklist all programs in list C inside VAC, such as using these programs will trigger a VAC flag.

1. Every program someone cheating has that someone not cheating doesn't have isn't automatically a cheat.

2. Many cheats use stealth process methods and append themselves to legitimate programs/processes.

[Sebastian Nielsen]

1: Which means that you can still use those non-cheat programs as second-class evidence that someone is cheating.
However, large amounts of data needs to be collected so this does not ban legit players.
The system could be "tuned in" using existing VAC statistics, and when the tune-in roughtly match each other, then the system could be pushed into production.

2: The above method could also be applied to loaded DLLs, software injected in other software (even if none of those is a game) and such.

[ KARR™]

So someone who is banned and happend to have Word and Excel open... and someone that doesn't get banned and doesn't have those open.... means that you want Word and Excel added to some sort of "omgz you must be a cheater" list....

[Sebastian Nielsen]

KARR: But you understand that not gonna happen. Many legit players is doing something productive, has Word or Excel open in the background when taking a break and play some CS:GO. So Word/Excel would easily get into both list A and B, and get subtracted away and not end up in list C.

Im not talking about doing a check against one cheating player vs one legit player, instead im talking about doing a match over a pretty large dataset, eg many cheating players vs many legit players. And how large the dataset should be, thats the "tuning" parameter, that needs to be tuned in.