I just don't like the fact that they were allowed to cheat in probably a dozen or so matches if not more. I agree with jitspoe that immediately banning players with cheats makes it easier for potential cheat developers to test the detectability of their cheats, but ZGH and Penix are already listed as detectable cheats in the "underground forums". I think that by jitspoe waiting so long to ban offenders is causing some people to feel entrapped. If you look at the entire #c0NF team here, it is more likely that one player had the intentions on using cheats and he played around with a couple of them and after a few days wasn't caught. He then distributed these "undetected cheats" to his entire clan which used them because they were unaware of the consequences and now the entire team is about going down for cheating. I think that probably 3-4 of these players who have been legit for a year already would have never cheated if their foolish clanmate had have been caught and banned immediately.
So instead of banning one person with bad intentions, we've banned almost an entire team that was persuaded to cheat by this individual. Their reputations are tarnished and this team and all of its members (even those who hadn't cheated) will be under scrutiny for years to come.
Now we have a dozen or so matches that need to have their results over-ruled. Numerous teams have been playing #c0NF at a definitive disadvantage which could have been prevented. If I were running a tournament I would hate to have a team of cheaters do well, maybe even win a prize and come to find out a couple weeks later that they were playing dishonestly with cheats.
So why don't we just autoban the checksums of Penix, ZGH and the multi-hook? These cheats have been detected for way too long and you would be weeding out the bad players who have sought after cheats, as opposed to those who were convinced into cheating by friends or clanmates.
Next on the agenda: hardware based bans, so we're not banning all of Mexico or small villages when these idiots cheat. Most people know that the hardware checksums are being generated already, let's just put the banning capability into place.
Edit:
virus will hack this website^^
and this mof newb game for newbies1
:::::50k botnet ftw!:::::
Now you've got these script-kiddies threatening you over this. A 100-node botnet would kill your login server and grind a hault to every 'sv_login 2' server, would hate to see what kind of damage there would be with this supposed 50k botnet.
