What is "HLTV" server?

[Dinoza]

kinda newb about those things, what that?

[Allwaysupdated]

hltv is a big news site for the csgo esport scene

[SuperHans]

a server hosted by the site hltv.org

[Dinoza]

And are those servers safe? Cause a random pug invited me to the so called HLTV server last night but I couldnt move, so he told me turn off your antivirus so I left the server cuz it was weird, and I had some new zip.file called "HLTV" that had some "00000" and .exe in it, but I delete it, cuz I had some paranoia that the guy tried to hack me...

[SuperHans]

DinozaDuDe původně napsal:

And are those servers safe? Cause a random pug invited me to the so called HLTV server last night but I couldnt move, so he told me turn off your antivirus so I left the server cuz it was weird, and I had some new zip.file called "HLTV" that had some "00000" and .exe in it, but I delete it, cuz I had some paranoia that the guy tried to hack me...

yeah, you will never get any zip files containing .exe files for joining a server, certainely not a HLTV one, you were right to be paranoid.

Its not an official HLTV server, HLTV is a 100% legit site, they are just using the well known HLTV name to try and phish for peoples account details.

you should be alright but may want to run a scan or something to double check there are no files elsewhere.

you made the correct decision, and kept your skins safe.

[Dinoza]

SuperHans původně napsal:

DinozaDuDe původně napsal:

And are those servers safe? Cause a random pug invited me to the so called HLTV server last night but I couldnt move, so he told me turn off your antivirus so I left the server cuz it was weird, and I had some new zip.file called "HLTV" that had some "00000" and .exe in it, but I delete it, cuz I had some paranoia that the guy tried to hack me...

yeah, you will never get any zip files containing .exe files for joining a server, certainely not a HLTV one.
you made the correct decision and kept your skins safe :D

Y lets hope no harm is made there, I even delete the zip map files I got there + that hltv file, and also did avast reboot scan found nothin and malwarebytes scan in safe mode found nothing aswell, but I tell u there is some new weird scam/hack around, that gets u by joining custom servers, I was not able to move when I join the server, and the guy told me "turn off your defender or antivirus thats the cause" and I instantly altf4 and block him, why would antivirus block me from moving that was hella weird...I used to delete ALL unkown friends screw em

[SuperHans]

;490123938433147533 původně napsal:

Y lets hope no harm is made there, I even delete the zip map files I got there + that hltv file, and also did avast reboot scan found nothin and malwarebytes scan in safe mode found nothing aswell, but I tell u there is some new weird scam/hack around, that gets u by joining custom servers, I was not able to move when I join the server, and the guy told me "turn off your defender or antivirus thats the cause" and I instantly altf4 and block him, why would antivirus block me from moving that was hella weird...I used to delete ALL unkown friends screw em

People will go so far out of their way and send these sort of things to thousands of people just to try and get a $20 skin, its crazy really.

[Dinoza]

SuperHans původně napsal:

;490123938433147533 původně napsal:

Y lets hope no harm is made there, I even delete the zip map files I got there + that hltv file, and also did avast reboot scan found nothin and malwarebytes scan in safe mode found nothing aswell, but I tell u there is some new weird scam/hack around, that gets u by joining custom servers, I was not able to move when I join the server, and the guy told me "turn off your defender or antivirus thats the cause" and I instantly altf4 and block him, why would antivirus block me from moving that was hella weird...I used to delete ALL unkown friends screw em

People will go so far out of their way and send these sort of things to thousands of people just to try and get a $20 skin, its crazy really.

y, atleast I know now that even joining custom servers can lead to being scammed o_o but I wonder even I did check the hltv file, avast told me the file is safe but it had 2x "000000" and some .exe thing in it thats what made me worri

[aYE]

Picking up an old thread, to make sure that the information is correct.

OP's question was,
What is "HLTV" server?
HLTV stand for "Half-Life TV", and is a broadcasting server for Half-Life (and naturally Counter-Strike), developed by Valve. The webpage HLTV.org, however, is an well-known portal for HLTV broadcasts.

More recent version of HLTV, supporting CS:GO, would be SourceTV.
See this tread by Dennis Stanistan on how to setting up SourceTV.