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by arrivance 3086 days ago
I believe you are misremembering: what Valve said within their statement on /r/games is that the DNS entries were being used after the detection of the cheats.

Here's a quotation from Gabe's post:

>VAC checked for the presence of these cheats. If they were detected VAC then checked to see which cheat DRM server was being contacted. This second check was done by looking for a partial match to those (non-web) cheat DRM servers in the DNS cache. If found, then hashes of the matching DNS entries were sent to the VAC servers. The match was double checked on our servers and then that client was marked for a future ban. Less than a tenth of one percent of clients triggered the second check. 570 cheaters are being banned as a result. [1]

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_an...

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Ah, ok. Thanks for the correction.