Valve added Steam Idlers to a list of VAC conflicting software.

It's clownish.

They ban things that have nothing to do with cheating but ignore well documented methods.

How do people get so out of touch?

A million dollars at a time it seems.

I think this is to hit and prevent faster cheating on those games,there is nothing mainly directed towards idlers.(It is not present yet in my local language)
Also, it won't prevent you from playing the game. Just disconnecting you from VAC secured servers.

I see here a good move from Valve for improving cheating prevention, as players were complaining that obvious cheaters could play weeks before getting banned.

Also, even if one of "famous idlers" (IM) use injection or similar technics, I don't see how users are affected as the idler process and threads aren't used to connect to any game servers.

It may not VAC ban you, but can render game unplayable for some time. Idle carefully!

There is no duration mentioned in your current link. Have you any source on that ?

While you give us this information as a warning (thanks for info between !), this is a good news for idling programs.
-> Use your idler as much as you like, if anything goes wrong, just close it.

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Good to know, thanks for the heads up!

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I was already doing that since i dont want to risk my account anyways:D! Thanks for the heads up doe!

haha you noob, you should idle cards on virtual machine ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

Considering that hypervisors are apparently considered just as bad as steam idlers, this wouldn't help much would it?

I wonder if having Sandboxie installed is enough to trigger anything if no sandboxed app is running. Good thing I don't play VAC-protected games so I don't have to find out.

Personally, I'm against Idling programs... it's just so lazy. Simply install a shitty Gleam game that has cards, launch it, then go do something. Watch a movie, go to the store, make some food, etc. Even if you're only gone for an hour, that's an hour closer to getting your card drops.

However, that is an extremely unfair punishment. Sure, you can idle to boost your hours to make yourself look like a "pro", but on games that have Stats, it's pretty easy to identify an idler when they have 1,000 hours on record and only been in 60 games with 50 hours of actual gameplay. And even then, it's not cheating, just stupid. Valve is just a little too proud of themselves that they can FUC... I mean VAC ban players.

What are the alternatives for ASF?

I followed everything in Valve's "Why am I triggering VAC guide" and couldn't figure out why I kept getting kicked from CSGO matches. Welp, I got a week-long ban now, so thanks for changing things without telling us Valve.

Might I ask, where the

EDIT: From Steam Support:

is comming from? Or was it a private chat/ticket?