I keep getting this error saying i’m using a vpn or cheating or something but i’m not how do i fix i haven’t played the game in over 1 year what can i do
whatever the problem you’d better figure it out and fix it before you keep trying to login. seen a number of posts were ppl claimed they just kept trying to login and got permabanned.
assuming this is your PC, then you should be aware of what is installed on it, after all you put it there. so if the fortnite error message you posted wasn’t enough of a clue, maybe you can get more info here https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/ and maybe try to request tech support if you’re that in the dark.
This happened to my boy when he was using mods for CoD on his pc. It got his fortnite account banned because they use the same cheat detection or something. If I had to guess it means that your pc is banned from fortnite. Just a guess though.
Review certificates and software installed in your pc. I had running a reverse proxy called Fiddler (Because I use it as a web developer) and when I open that app, I cant join any match.
Also, your IP or machine could be banned?
I have this issue as well. Please reply with any sort of way to fix it! I have uninstalled the game and redownloaded the game and it has not made a difference. 
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to append to what other said.
Make sure you are NOT running any 3rd party anti-virus… period.
Got norton… garbage get rid of it.
got avast?
kaspersky?
avg?
Mcafee?
literally ANY anti-virus you would need to install yourself is hot piles of junk and plenty of them now are interfering with anti-cheat, some of them are also creating virtual VPNs too among other things that are causing total havoc.
You should be running nothing except for windows security built into windows 8.x / 10 / 11 only.
I reset my brothers whole pc and it still is saying it when he loads into a game and he didn’t have cheats
would he be asking for help here on forums if he was hacking/ cheating?? come on…
did he ever get unbanned?
Aye bro you know if he was able to get unbanned?
windows security built in is trash though and i disablled my kaspersky and still got the same problem, fortnite trash fr
Be nice if they could actually ban the ones who are cheating. They really suck at keeping on top of it. Not sure if the high turnover of employees, or just laziness.
did you manage to find out anything?
Windows security has been repeatedly proven to be superior to all general 3rd party solutions…
also you can’t “disable” kasperksy and expect it to solve a problem, i’ve lost count of the number of AV software that has to be fully removed for it to work… plus that is ABSOLUTE trash AV… which is ironic.
ur pc is just banned
get a woofer or a new pc
I got hardware banned for cheating years ago, on a discord server I heard that hardware bans were revoked after a year or two. I did not believe it but I can now play on that same computer. I got banned maybe 4 years ago tho so I don’t know what’s the exact countdown
Kaspersky isn’t trash and anyone that actually knows about computers can tell you that
Ended up resetting the PC to see if it would help bc I couldn’t find a match on PC but on consoles it was fine and yeah it ended up working, it’s basically what OC said downloaded some BO3 cheats to get all gobblegums for Perkaholic and all that but instead of it flagging on BO3 itself it somehow flagged it on Fortnite, a game I wasn’t even playing at the time lmao it’s a very stupid system they have going on over there
Only those that have absolutely no clue what they actually are talking about would make that claim…
try again