Steam Mining by our Hardware?

[OnMyOwn-]

Hey Guys,
its more than a week my steam is running slow or sometimes going on Deadlock, now my Premium Internet Security Said: " STEAM RUNNING A COINMINER " on your computer!
Watch this picture https://pasteboard.co/IETm3rs.jpg

SURPRISE!!!!!!! MF ?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Steam is not mining coins.

[OnMyOwn-]

Цитата допису cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

It is not mining coins.

:qr:

its Not ? CoinMiner.GA in Steam , its a Potentially unwanted Application using gpu or cpu !

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Цитата допису Mythic-:

Цитата допису cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

It is not mining coins.

its Not ? CoinMiner.GA in Steam , its a Potentially unwanted Application using gpu or cpu !

You have downloaded the malware from another source. Steam does not have that in the files.

[Throttle Kitty]

I mean, the new update is hogging tons of resources for no reason for some people.
"Steam's not doing that" is very uninformed and biased. How do you know?
All it takes is one rogue employee looking to make an extra buck to slide some code in.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Цитата допису Throttle Kitty:

I mean, the new update is hogging tons of resources for no reason for some people.
"Steam's not doing that" is very uninformed and biased. How do you know?
All it takes is one rogue employee looking to make an extra buck to slide some code in.

Valve did NOT incorporate a coin miner virus into the Steam client.

[OnMyOwn-]

Цитата допису Throttle Kitty:

I mean, the new update is hogging tons of resources for no reason for some people.
"Steam's not doing that" is very uninformed and biased. How do you know?
All it takes is one rogue employee looking to make an extra buck to slide some code in.

Well, using resources after new update forget about that, that could be right!

But this CoinMiner.GA ?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Цитата допису Mythic-:

Well, using resources after new update forget about that, that could be right!

But this CoinMiner.GA ?

Figure out when that virus was downloaded and what exact program let it download.

[OnMyOwn-]

Цитата допису cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Цитата допису Throttle Kitty:

I mean, the new update is hogging tons of resources for no reason for some people.
"Steam's not doing that" is very uninformed and biased. How do you know?
All it takes is one rogue employee looking to make an extra buck to slide some code in.

Valve did NOT incorporate a coin miner virus into the Steam client.

:qr:

Sir How u know that ? You're Sure ? u dont trust one of the best Antimalware Application ?
or its The political problem between the two companies ? xD

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Цитата допису Mythic-:

Цитата допису cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Valve did NOT incorporate a coin miner virus into the Steam client.

Sir How u know that ? You're Sure ? u dont trust one of the best Antimalware Application ?
or its The political problem between the two companies ? xD

Because it would have been seen by millions of users and dozens of antivirus/antimalware programs, spread all over the news sites and you apparently are the only one that has this issue.

What is more plausible?

A: You went to a shady site and got a miner installed on your PC.

[OnMyOwn-]

Цитата допису Spawk:

Цитата допису Mythic-:

its Not ? CoinMiner.GA in Steam , its a Potentially unwanted Application using gpu or cpu !

In a file that the Steam client tried to access. Not in the Steam client itself. A piece of software that's been around for 16 years, is used by over a hundred million users a month and which receives more than intense scrutiny from countless sources is less likely to be the carrier of malware than something you may have downloaded, don't you think? :)

That means its a Virus in my computer, injected in steam, and trying to steal something from my computer ?

[Spud]

something in Steam is burning resources like a mofo

[cinedine]

Цитата допису Mythic-:

Цитата допису cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Valve did NOT incorporate a coin miner virus into the Steam client.

:qr:

Sir How u know that ? You're Sure ? u dont trust one of the best Antimalware Application ?
or its The political problem between the two companies ? xD

Antivirus are frankly bullshiting most of the time.
This can be just as well be a case of a false positive when trying to start a game or be caused by some malvert you cought by using the overlay browser.

Click on the explanation link and see what file caused this before jumping to conclusions.

[OnMyOwn-]

Цитата допису cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Цитата допису Mythic-:

Sir How u know that ? You're Sure ? u dont trust one of the best Antimalware Application ?
or its The political problem between the two companies ? xD

Because it would have been seen by millions of users and dozens of antivirus/antimalware programs, spread all over the news sites and you apparently are the only one that has this issue.

What is more plausible?

:qr:

Yeah , thats why i shared this with u guys, to make sure its just me or all users having this Situation!

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Цитата допису Mythic-:

Цитата допису cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Because it would have been seen by millions of users and dozens of antivirus/antimalware programs, spread all over the news sites and you apparently are the only one that has this issue.

What is more plausible?

Yeah , thats why i shared this with u guys, to make sure its just me or all users having this Situation!

Not a single user since it was in beta Sept 17th.

[Throttle Kitty]

Цитата допису cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Цитата допису Mythic-:

Sir How u know that ? You're Sure ? u dont trust one of the best Antimalware Application ?
or its The political problem between the two companies ? xD

Because it would have been seen by millions of users and dozens of antivirus/antimalware programs, spread all over the news sites and you apparently are the only one that has this issue.

What is more plausible?

A: You went to a shady site and got a miner installed on your PC.

:qr:

You realize viruses hide.... right? That's their whole thing. If you instantly saw every virus you had, viruses wouldn't exist.

if they were instantly noticed, they would not work. The whole idea of these things is to be covert. It's like you are objecting to the existence of viruses themselves.

Anything and everything CAN have a virus in it. It takes one action, by one rogue individual to infect something. Once infected, these things can hide for a long time.

It might be super unlikely, but it's still possible.