VAC Ban Check
Check any Steam account for VAC bans, game bans and a community ban. Paste a SteamID or profile link, and you'll see Steam's own record beside every ban from the community lists Mizan reads.
Checking a whole server? Paste its status output into the lobby check.
What Does a VAC Ban Mean?
VAC is Valve Anti-Cheat. It looks for known cheat software on the computer of anyone playing on a VAC-secured server. When it finds some, it bans the account from that game's secured servers.
A VAC ban is permanent and can't be appealed. Steam Support won't remove one; Valve lifts a ban by itself only when it finds the ban was a mistake. Server owners can't VAC ban anyone.
The ban also reaches every account that shared the banned account's phone number at the time. Cheating in Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Day of Defeat: Source or Team Fortress 2 bans the account in all four. A banned account can still play single-player games, LAN games and servers that aren't VAC-secured.
What Does a Game Ban Mean?
A game developer decides a game ban, and Valve puts it on the account. The developer sets how long it lasts and what it blocks, such as playing that game online or trading its items. It covers that one game.
Steam shows only permanent game bans on a profile, so a temporary one doesn't appear. Appeals go to the game's developer, not to Valve.
Reading Steam's Record
Every Steam player page on Mizan shows Steam's record as Steam reports it:
- VAC bans
- How many VAC bans the account has.
- Game bans
- How many permanent game bans developers have given it.
- Last ban
- Days since its newest VAC or game ban. Steam doesn't say which game.
- Community ban
- Whether Valve has banned it from the Steam Community.
- Trade ban
- Whether its trading is banned or on probation.
- Account created
- When the account was made. Steam shares the date only while the profile is public.
What Does Steam's Record Leave Out?
VAC only sees VAC-secured servers, and server owners can't VAC ban anyone. A Garry's Mod, Rust or community Team Fortress 2 server bans cheaters on its own list, and Steam never hears about it.
Mizan reads the public ban lists of game communities. A player's page shows each ban under the name of the list that issued it, for what and whether it's still in force. The ban lists page names every list it reads.
A ban on a list is that community's decision, and Mizan doesn't review it. Think one about you is wrong? Read how to dispute a listing.