My antivirus started when I was in a VAC secured game

[hCerisu ❤]

I was playing TF2 when my McAfee (bloatware, I know) antivirus started up and began scanning everything. Knowing that it scans running processes, could this have triggered VAC somehow?

[[Industrial] A_HUMBLEBUMBLED]

unless it's changing the game files, no.

[Badstormer]

Seeing as McAfee is a known antivirus, odds are, VAC won't ban you, otherwise we'd see people being banned for using Windows Defender/malwarebytes/etc.

If you do get banned, then we now know that VAC will ban you for using an antivirus.

[Hextravert]

You will not get banned for scanning your computer—for crying out loud.

If there's any justice in the world, people who play fair and square have nothing to worry about.

[ReBoot]

If its bloatware and annoying you, why don't you replace it with something better?

[Space Coward]

Don't be afraid of VAC too much. Just don't mod any of your games if the mod seems a little strange or untrustworthy (ANYTHING involving an EXE, BAT, etc is a red flag) and you'll be fine.

There was a time when a few people were unjustly banned, the bug was fixed and the victims were unbanned and given compensation. The fear that you'll still be banned for no reason comes from the people who WERE banned for hacking, and just want to see the system go down now that they'll never play on VAC secured servers again. Don't listen to them. If you were for some reason unjustly banned, contact Steam Support and provide whatever proof you can that it was wrong.

McAfee will not cause issues with VAC. The worst I could see happening is that you once or twice will be dropped from a server because your client couldn't contact the VAC servers, in which case you can just rejoin.

[Laptop]

You won't get banned for using McAfee... now whether you should be using McAfee as an Antivirus is another issue entirely.

[Space Coward]

Laptop65 eredeti hozzászólása:

You won't get banned for using McAfee... now whether you should be using McAfee as an Antivirus is another issue entirely.

Norton 360 FTW

[Meow]

The Adventure Line™ eredeti hozzászólása:

Industrial humblebumbled eredeti hozzászólása:

unless it's changing the game files, no.

Yes, but it also scans memory for malware, implying it hooks processes

No, there is a difference between reading memory and editing it, a Anti-Virus just reads it, cheats need to edit the memory. VAC just looks for programs that edit the specific games memory, so Anti-Virus's are fine.

[Space Coward]

Tatsuya Hiroki (HU) eredeti hozzászólása:

@Kill-Cam Celebrity: Last time I used Norton it was so damn awful

Norton 360 is alright.

Anyway, point is, you're safe. It's not going to get a false positive just because McAfee is being useless as usual.

[MafiaK1]

kaspersky also fine ( i use it since 8years? )

[Hopper]

Built in Windows Defender is enough for me.

[Badstormer]

An argument about which antivirus is and isn't useful is just waiting to happen... Anyway, the important thing is: antivirus programs aren't going to get you banned unless they actually hook into and modify memory of the game you are in while connected to a VAC-secured server. Does that ever happen? No - not unless you have a terrible antivirus program (McAfee will not get you VAC banned, unless it picks up a false positive in CSGO's files). So, assuming the antivirus programs do not automatically delete/quarantine files, OR modify memory of open programs, you'll be fine if they just start a scan out of seemingly nowhere.

[Space Coward]

Well, [/thread] I guess.