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Kr4ken·Jan 1, 2018

None anymore, the cheaters have already stopped using catbot as their usernames. https://github.com/nullifiedcat/catbot-setup/commit/c2d22ee9.... This is further proof of how poor of a response this was by Valve.

In GNU/Linux local username triggers Steam VAC ban

Kr4ken·Jan 1, 2018

Innocent users are the only ones that will get caught up by this anymore, the cheaters already worked around this(https://github.com/nullifiedcat/catbot-setup/commit/c2d22ee9...). Yes, cheaters were the first to report it because they were the first to experience it.

In GNU/Linux local username triggers Steam VAC ban

rnhmjoj·Jan 1, 2018

They have already implemented randomly generated names: https://github.com/nullifiedcat/catbot-setup/pull/11/files

In GNU/Linux local username triggers Steam VAC ban

bdz·Jan 1, 2018

In Team Fortress 2, there is a group of people who host multiple cheat-controlled aimbotting bots, which run around on servers, destroying everyone playing in the other team. These are called cat-bots. To host these bots, you need to set up a Linux environment. Then you can use a script, which automatically prepares your system for hosting the bots. One of the things it does is it creates multiple users in Linux (to run multiple Steam instances), all of them starting with "catbot". https://github.com/nullifiedcat/catbot-setup And the script creators already changed every mention of "catbot" to "kisak" (name of the Github moderator for Valve) https://github.com/nullifiedcat/catbot-setup/commit/58582f81...

In GNU/Linux local username triggers Steam VAC ban