Virus or bot?

[POOP33]

Some Bot thing is going around i just want to worn you not to download any thing that you get in a steam chat. the like I got was: http://screen-lighting.com/sshot721.png

How it happens-~-
A bot sends everyone these 3 lines:
Elodin: Hi
Elodin: Will you exchange these things? (screenshot http://screen-lighting.com/sshot721.png )
Elodin: Go trade, bro


Protect yourselves please

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Its the new phishing method, I've been getting messages from people or comments left on my profile. Very annoying.

[Donitsi]

It should be quite obvious to not click on links that strangers send. It's unfortunate how many people get phised like this. I see new thread about this almost every day.

[Un-Gamer]

Originally posted by MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™:

Its the new phishing method, I've been getting messages from people or comments left on my profile. Very annoying.

New? New since when? To my knowledge, scammers have been phishing users with that tactic for quite a while now. I could be wrong though, as I do not trade much.

Edit: I suppose the tactic I may have been thinking about is the one in which a random user sends you a sends a friend request and then tells you through a private chat message to trade with someone on a fake Steam Community website. Fake in that the URL is misspelled.

[Jimo]

Originally posted by Anonymister:

Originally posted by MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™:

Its the new phishing method, I've been getting messages from people or comments left on my profile. Very annoying.

New? New since when? To my knowledge, scammers have been phishing users with that tactic for quite a while now. I could be wrong though, as I do not trade much.

It's fairly new. Sounds like this is the .scr file that scammers are using to hijack inventories. If you fall victim to it you'll want to run a malware scanner on your machine.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=337490163

[James_UK]

Just had one of these come through myself except it had extra messages like "dont click that", "it's a spam virus". Possibly someones account got hijacked maybe?

[Cà Phê]

I fell victim to this. One of my trusted friends sent me it and now I'm a bit worried of losing my account. Bright side is that I manage to remove it but the downside is having to apologize to each of my friends and hope they actually forgive me.

[Theblaze]

Originally posted by Tremmors:

I fell victim to this. One of my trusted friends sent me it and now I'm a bit worried of losing my account. Bright side is that I manage to remove it but the downside is having to apologize to each of my friends and hope they actually forgive me.

Just change your passwords immediately not only on Steam if you used the same password over and over.
Also scan your computer for viruses/trojans if you downloaded something from the link.

Your friends Steam account probably got hijacked because he fell into it, just also tell him to change his password and scan for viruses/trojans if you have other contact methods but Steam with him.

[delta459]

I'm glad that i checked before using it, lets hope that lots of people see this.
remember to remove the chat history!

[Crack Sparrow]

I checked today and I immediately posted a thread on a forum I'm on.
Try to spread this as much as you can and warn all your friends about it

[finn]

Also falled for it, AVG even warned me for it but I thought it was being annoying but no it was right for once.
After I got it I removed it and made the anti virus programs do their job.


zaterdag 8 november 2014
Burgersaurus: Hi
Burgersaurus: Will you exchange these things? (screenshot http://screen-lighting.com/sshot721.png )
Burgersaurus: Go trade, bro
jansenfinn: Ehm
jansenfinn: AVG says it's a virus
jansenfinn: Hi
jansenfinn: Will you exchange these things? (screenshot http://screen-lighting.com/sshot721.png )
jansenfinn: Go trade, bro
jansenfinn: Hi
jansenfinn: Will you exchange these things? (screenshot http://screen-lighting.com/sshot721.png )
jansenfinn: Go trade, bro

Yeah.... don't click on it.

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Originally posted by Anonymister:

Originally posted by MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™:

Its the new phishing method, I've been getting messages from people or comments left on my profile. Very annoying.

New? New since when? To my knowledge, scammers have been phishing users with that tactic for quite a while now. I could be wrong though, as I do not trade much.

Edit: I suppose the tactic I may have been thinking about is the one in which a random user sends you a sends a friend request and then tells you through a private chat message to trade with someone on a fake Steam Community website. Fake in that the URL is misspelled.

I've probably been hit hundreds of times already using the other tactics, this image link version is just a newer version of the same thing. I never had one leave one in my profile comments before that's for sure. But yes phishing as a tactic is very old, but this new one of asking people to look at some picture of an effect or whatever is a different take on the same old trick.

[AHTOXXA]

virus

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Originally posted by James_UK:

Just had one of these come through myself except it had extra messages like "dont click that", "it's a spam virus". Possibly someones account got hijacked maybe?

Or ass covering, the trick relies on people clicking quickly, since an image is innocuous. Its not like past ones which were mangled steamcommunity type urls. So people are less suspicious, the guy who sent me the link through chat had a message on his profile telling me not to click it....I doubt he got his account back that quick. Its more likely a way for the bot to reduce the chance it gets flagged quickly.

[Jimo]

Whenever that script it ran it sends a message out to everyone on their friends list to attempt to have them click it too. The script steals the inventory from right underneath peoples noses. The person who fell victim to the script can likely see the messages being sent out and hes trying to stop their friends from clicking on it.

This is starting to remind me of the MSN Messenger days lol

[TopCrop]

Hello. I have made a video to warn people on Steam about this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArQS-dD-7G8&feature=youtu.be