Exactly. What's funny is that someone made a package that over writes the ads in CS 1.6, the next day Valve released and update to overwrite the ads and simply called it a "dll update". However some people were afriad to use it, thinking Valve would use VAC to their advantage and ban those who tried to remove the ads. Server owners and mod scripters are working on ways to get the ads removed though, so we'll see how that goes. This is just a bad idea all around for Valve, and once they realize that the players are the ones who run their games, you'd think that they would do the smart thing and remove the ads.