No information such as date of detection or type of cheat detected is disclosed to the player. It may kick players from the game if it detects errors in their system's memory or hardware.
When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. Valve Anti-Cheat ( VAC) is an anti-cheat software product developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002.