I have an honest question, maybe someone knows the answer.

[Arcos Of Black]

Is it possible to have your account hijacked from a simple trade? No links involved, no "Add this person and trade wth them". I'm talking an actualy, legit trade.

I lost my old account quite recently, and the last thing I happpened to do on it was trade with someone.

So, can anyone answer? Can an account be stolen twith a simple trade.

[rogan]

Nope, you probably clicked something

[Arcos Of Black]

Originally posted by ROGAN IS THE UNO MASTER:

Nope, you probably clicked something

Yeah, maybe. Usually I'm pretty smart about that kind of thing, and can tell a bad link from a safe one, and I don't remember clixking anything bad.. But I must have done something stupid, otherwise it wouldn't have happened.

[rogan]

Originally posted by Arcos:

Originally posted by ROGAN IS THE UNO MASTER:

Nope, you probably clicked something

Yeah, maybe. Usually I'm pretty smart about that kind of thing, and can tell a bad link from a safe one, and I don't remember clixking anything bad.. But I must have done something stupid, otherwise it wouldn't have happened.

Have you tried steam support or anything? Did you have email trade confirmation enabled?

[Arcos Of Black]

Originally posted by ROGAN IS THE UNO MASTER:

Originally posted by Arcos:

Yeah, maybe. Usually I'm pretty smart about that kind of thing, and can tell a bad link from a safe one, and I don't remember clixking anything bad.. But I must have done something stupid, otherwise it wouldn't have happened.

Have you tried steam support or anything? Did you have email trade confirmation enabled?

Tried steam support, got bots with every email. And..erm..heh, I'm an idiot ans turned off the email confirmation. All I lost were some items, so it's no biggie to me.

I just asked this question, because I wanted to know if my paranoia regarding trades was justified. Clearly it's not, and it should be safe for me to do trades.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

yeah you can't have it hacked simply by a trade
you either have to click on a link and it can automatically download a program into your computer, spyware/malware
or
click on the link and give your steam credentials
other than that the phispher bots, as much as i hate to say it
ARE STEAM ACCOUNTS
which means even though they are robots/programs, they still function like regular steam accounts and thus still follow the same rules and cannot simply have a virus that infects your computer from a trade

[Arcos Of Black]

Originally posted by >implying tf2 has logic:

yeah you can't have it hacked simply by a trade
you either have to click on a link and it can automatically download a program into your computer, spyware/malware
or
click on the link and give your steam credentials
other than that the phispher bots, as much as i hate to say it
ARE STEAM ACCOUNTS
which means even though they are robots/programs, they still function like regular steam accounts and thus still follow the same rules and cannot simply have a virus that infects your computer from a trade

Alright, thanks. Yeah, I suppose that does make sense, I've just been paranoid about trading since it happened.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

Originally posted by Arcos:

Originally posted by >implying tf2 has logic:

yeah you can't have it hacked simply by a trade
you either have to click on a link and it can automatically download a program into your computer, spyware/malware
or
click on the link and give your steam credentials
other than that the phispher bots, as much as i hate to say it
ARE STEAM ACCOUNTS
which means even though they are robots/programs, they still function like regular steam accounts and thus still follow the same rules and cannot simply have a virus that infects your computer from a trade

Alright, thanks. Yeah, I suppose that does make sense, I've just been paranoid about trading since it happened.

na even the most experienced traders get paranoid
just like irl even the most cautious drivers get nervous from time to time

[Arcos Of Black]

Anyway, thank you both. This makes me feel a lot better, and less paranoid.