How to remove cheats from system

All Discussions > Steam Forums > VAC Discussion > Topic Details

ADM Mar 29, 2015 @ 3:04am

How do I remove cheats from my system so that I won't get banned on this account as well? I'm afraid VAC will detect cheats that I stopped using when I got banned on another account. I permanently deleted the cheating programs a while ago, but is that enough?

Last edited by ADM; Mar 29, 2015 @ 3:04am

< >

Showing 1-15 of 23 comments

C²C^Guyver |NZB| Mar 29, 2015 @ 3:05am

Reformatting is the only sure way. Deleting doesn't equal gone.

ADM Mar 29, 2015 @ 3:05am

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:
Reformatting is the only sure way. Deleting doesn't equal gone.

What is reformatting, and how do I do it?

C²C^Guyver |NZB| Mar 29, 2015 @ 3:06am

A complete wipe of your hard drives(s). Google it.

ADM Mar 29, 2015 @ 3:07am

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:
A complete wipe of your hard drives(s). Google it.

There's no way to remove just the cheat?

C²C^Guyver |NZB| Mar 29, 2015 @ 3:10am

Originally posted by Adam T.:
Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:
A complete wipe of your hard drives(s). Google it.

There's no way to remove just the cheat?

Again, deleting doesn't equal gone. When you delete anything in Windows, it's still there...Windows just cannot find it. So, reformat.

ADM Mar 29, 2015 @ 3:11am

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:
Originally posted by Adam T.:

There's no way to remove just the cheat?
Again, deleting doesn't equal gone. When you delete anything in Windows, it's still there...Windows just cannot find it. So, reformat.

So, I'll lose anything I don't back up when I reformat, or will everything be gone?

C²C^Guyver |NZB| Mar 29, 2015 @ 3:13am

Everything will be gone.

ADM Mar 29, 2015 @ 3:48am

So, if I used CCleaner to wipe all of the free disk space (i.e the crap I permanently deleted)?

Last edited by ADM; Mar 29, 2015 @ 3:48am

J4MESOX4D Mar 29, 2015 @ 4:09am

Only a full wipe would suffice in this situation. Most cheat files can linger, spread or be loaded with harmful material that you cannot track. Even some of the more serious ones can re-install themselves without your knowledge every time you delete them. Back-up everything that you need and then do a complete wipe of everything on your PC. It's the only solution and a peril of cheating and its more severe effects aside from just the VAC ban.

ReBoot Mar 29, 2015 @ 4:35am

... and here we have a example of CCleaner being a religion. Who cares about common sense when you can believe...

#10

ADM Mar 29, 2015 @ 9:53pm

Originally posted by ReBoot:
... and here we have a example of CCleaner being a religion. Who cares about common sense when you can believe...

I mention CCleaner once and suddenly I now follow a different religion.

#10/10Logic

#11

ReBoot Mar 30, 2015 @ 12:29am

I don't praise "a different religion" here. I praise the one and only non-religion. Amongst religions there's always the one which is not, like physics among the real-world god religions.

#12