Idle master "Vac Banned"

Why do you ask here and not in a dedicated CS:GO or idle master board?

In my experience, you can get kicked by using it but not banned.

It's not confirmed, but the Idle Master FAQ recommends not using it while playing Valve games. Just to be sure I never used it while playing anything on Steam really, but it's been quite a few years since I last used it.

No, i had that 2-3 times on, getting cards with TF2, nothing happened (except for having to reboot, and do some cache clearing).
Still best to not try it out too much and just keep it off whenever you go play such games, idlemaster is so fast anyway, just run it every few weeks once and you already get all cards in 1-2 hours.

From what I know and read through the source code on github, Idle Master/Idle Master extended doesn't inject anything to Steam or the game you are playing, so you should be fine. If I am correct VAC only detects if you hook into the memory of the game executable (maybe steam exe's too?). This is why you can have for example Cheat Engine open but not hooked to the game and you can play without a problem. If you hook into it though, VAC will go crazy.

Why people recommend not running anything like CE/Idle master/other similar programs while playing VAC secured games? Because you never know when VAC will get changed/updated in the future and what it may or may not look into, running processes etc and what it may or may not flag.

Wait and see, if you get banned then oh well. If you don't then take it as a sign of good luck and don't tempt fate again :)

1. There are reports for Idle Master that you can get VAC ban, especially if run together with a VAC enabled game.
2. Use ASF if you care about VAC.
3. If ASF is too complex for you and you'll continue to use Idle Master, don't play VAC games while it's active.

How about ASF, it's safe and easy to use (and can do a lot more)

Lugum is right, if you want your cards dropping fast use IM. ASF can do more things but that's irrelevant if you just idle games. What I don't understand is why somebody who is concerned about a VAC ban (as improbable it might be) would run any idler in the background while playing those VAC protected games.

Probably not, but there is this risk with IdleMaster.

Like many stated, just use ASF:

ASF

It's safe in regards about VAC bans (IM is not - especially with what you did. Not talking about actual reports, but how IM functions the possibility is there and this is bad in itself), has more features.

Though it requires some time to setup, it's not that hard and they also have support channels/forums, if you have problems setting it up.

You won't get VAC banned for idlers, valve can identify idlers and will just stop you from playing on VAC servers while its running and won't let you reconnect until you disable it and possibly restart steam.

I use ASF on PC and Steam X on Android. They both are safe to use.

Generally what happens is I always get asked if I want to stop the idling for a game if I start a new game, so they don't run on top of the other if that makes sense.

What I like about Steam X is that I can particularly idle or adjust the time spent with a game I played long time ago without farming cards for it or anything like that.

one simple golen rule when it comes to vac. if you are unsure, dont use it. if something happens you have been warned by the tool itself.
right now it doesnt trigger anything but this can always change, theoretically.
but as i said, if you are unsure and you are scared to lose your skins and account, dont use it.