

If you receive a VAC ban, you will be unable to share any VAC protected games. And as always, never give your password to anyone. We recommend you only authorize familiar Steam Accounts and familiar computers you know to be secure. But we have one user who says he was banned on one account, when making a second account using the same IP it was banned after he was AFK racking up gameplay hours. It is highly unlikely that they do IP ban. If you’re banned by VAC, the ban is “ permanent, non-negotiable, and cannot be removed by Steam Support.” Are VAC bans IP based?

VAC stands for Valve Anti-Cheat, which is an automated system that’s designed to detect cheats installed on a Steam user’s computer. As Valve’s support page lays out clearly, “VAC bans are permanent, non-negotiable, and cannot be removed by Steam Support.” What happens when you get VAC banned? If you know just one thing about Valve’s Anti-Cheat system (VAC), you probably know that a ban issued through it lasts forever. For example, a VAC ban in Modern Warfare 2 will not affect Modern Warfare 3.

