I do not believe that is a secret, but that how they can be certain that VAC does not produce false positives.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Valtteri Kiviniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Of course it would tell via rcon say or some other way that server is > not secure anymore and then maybe do quick reboot for the server. > > And I know how VAC work because I am developing anticheat so I have of > course looked into VAC. And so does anyone else who has some asm/c/c++ > coding skills and wants to find out. Im not telling any specific details > about it, but I can tell that i'ts not very efficient and it does only > detect hacks which hashes it has on its database. So it's not really a > real time scan/protection against hacks because it needs to have the > hack what you are using in its database so it protects you for known > public hacks etc. > > Tom Leighton kirjoitti: >> Don't mind me, but that would enable people to be playing a match and >> then VAC to be disabled when it starts... leading to people believing it >> is vac secured when it is not. >> >> Also, I wouldn't trust ANY other program to "Protect my game from >> kernelhacks and aimbots", simply because we don't know how VAC works and >> I really do not want to piss it off... >> >> Valtteri Kiviniemi wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Could it be possible to add a cvar like sv_secure that would specify if >>> server is secure or not. I mean that you could disable or enable VAC via >>> cvar without having to restart the server. Or if that's not possible, >>> maybe add a command that would disable or enable VAC and reboot >>> automatically the server. >>> >>> The reason why im asking this is because we are developing a anticheat >>> called EasyAntiCheat ( http://www.easyanticheat.net/ ) which is not >>> compatible with VAC. And some customer wants to disable EAC and use VAC2 >>> (mainly because of some foreign CUP's that are not aware of EAC and >>> requires server to be VAC2 enabled). >>> >>> So it would be easier to customers if they just could enable or disable >>> VAC if wanted to. >>> >>> Just a suggestion. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
