Other players in the lobby will see your name in bright red with a "CHEATER" label above your head.

You weren't cheating. You just had a mod that changed your crosshair color. The anti-cheat flagged it as a “foreign asset.”

If you've been joining lobbies and noticing other players staring at you, voting to kick you immediately, or calling you a "hacker" despite you playing normally, you might have the dreaded .

often receive false positives due to synchronization issues between the game and the storefront’s DLC verification. Removal and Persistence The "CHEATER" tag is not permanent