: Most modern loaders act as clients for subscription-based services. They verify user credentials and active licenses before allowing the cheat to run.

The use of hack loaders violates the Steam Subscriber Agreement and the game's Fair Play guidelines. Beyond account bans, the developers of these loaders have occasionally faced legal action from Valve and other publishers for copyright infringement and interference with contractual obligations.

The relationship between loaders and anti-cheat systems is a continuous "cat-and-mouse" game:

: Advanced anti-cheats (like Faceit or ESEA) look for suspicious behavior, such as one process writing to another's memory space.

: A standard Windows function, though easily detected by VAC.