Backdoor virus on steam?

[76561198973722295]

I used an antivirus called hitman pro with early warning scanning and found steam.exe suspicious level. then I tried to check steam.exe to VirusTotal found the results of the Backdoor virus.

Is that a false positive? did your steam.exe also get the same thing? Please help
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[magicISO Sweden]

classic false positive. if you think that steam gonna give you a virus then you big wrong on that

get a better antivirus program or just use the one that come with windows

[✨Saint✨]

Originally posted by LeonBibbles:

I used an antivirus called hitman pro with early warning scanning and found steam.exe suspicious level. then I tried to check steam.exe to VirusTotal found the results of the Backdoor virus.

Is that a false positive? did your steam.exe also get the same thing? Please help
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https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b2da5845420d9a45932d70f6c61b895b4adfcbd8fd942d472880b5494c5b0068

Get another AV. HitmanPro AV is bad.

Edit: here is some more info;

https://allaboutcookies.org/hitmanproalert-antivirus-review

[davidb11]

Yeah, that's a bad AV for certain. If it messes up this bad.

[HIVEmind]

I got bms falcon mod flagged as a virus. probably a false positive but monitor it.

[blunus]

Never heard that IO Interactive developed an antivirus program. Get better AV.

[PocketYoda]

Hitman pro is used by quite a few and saying its a false positive and not knowing the op's habits on their pc is strange..

[Tarra Sama]

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Hitman pro is used by quite a few and saying its a false positive and not knowing the op's habits on their pc is strange..

TBF, search this forum and you will find a lot of kids saying, "IVE BEEN SCAMMED PLZ HELP!" or something like that. People complaining about a game or a dev that they can't fix or make a game work. So when people come to this forum and complain about things they don't understand something without doing a google search... Gotta point out the obv.

[Realigo Actual]

Does it say "heur" anywhere? That's not a signature match, it's a guess based on something that looks suspicious. Steam will have some of that for security purposes and VAC.

Probably a false positive. If it wasn't, you would just be hit with many, many others, and it's likely Valve would discover it and contact you and others shortly. If it was about you, they don't need Steam for that, they can break in the machine through OS and firmware. It's not impossible, but it's still some amount more unlikely.

[doomshadow612]

Most ‘anti virus’ programs are either backdoors themselves or ransomware

[Silenzeio]

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Hitman pro is used by quite a few and saying its a false positive and not knowing the op's habits on their pc is strange..

Funny how i've never heard of it until today.

Then again even basic AV that comes with Windows outclasses any freemium AVs and it's free.

Common sense is also free. But sorely lost to many people who use these forums.

So when Steam of all apps is flagged by an AV, that AV is ♥♥♥♥.

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by Silenzeio:

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Hitman pro is used by quite a few and saying its a false positive and not knowing the op's habits on their pc is strange..

Funny how i've never heard of it until today.

Then again even basic AV that comes with Windows outclasses any freemium AVs and it's free.

Common sense is also free. But sorely lost to many people who use these forums.

So when Steam of all apps is flagged by an AV, that AV is ♥♥♥♥.

You can't follow much in Av then Hitman pro has been around for many years. Hitman Pro isn't free.

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by doomshadow612:

Most ‘anti virus’ programs are either backdoors themselves or ransomware

Or just horribly bloated. Since the AV built in to Windows is perfectly sufficient, and free, other AV makers had to try and distinguish themselves and provide a reason for people to buy them, so they end up filled with half baked encryption tools, password managers, backup tools, ad blockers, AI and crypto junk, and usually their own spyware and analytics so they can sell your data as another revenue stream.

[Realigo Actual]

Originally posted by Silenzeio:

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Hitman pro is used by quite a few and saying its a false positive and not knowing the op's habits on their pc is strange..

Funny how i've never heard of it until today.

Then again even basic AV that comes with Windows outclasses any freemium AVs and it's free.

Common sense is also free. But sorely lost to many people who use these forums.

So when Steam of all apps is flagged by an AV, that AV is ♥♥♥♥.

Common sense might be free, but unfortunately isn't enough anymore when it comes to this stuff.

[Ben Lubar]

antivirus software is useful if you're running a service where users can upload arbitrary files. It's a lot less useful on a personal computer.

on a personal computer, just keep your software up to date. install security updates when they become available.

using antivirus on a personal computer as a replacement for common sense and official updates is a lot like having a metal detector in your house and thinking that makes you immune to swords.

it's not going to protect you until it's too late.

by all means, scan files you download if that makes you feel safer. but you should only be downloading that kind of file from places you trust.

generally, if there's one or two detections for a file on virustotal, it's a false positive. especially if the detections are from vendor names you're not familiar with.

an actual trojan will look more like this, where practically every antivirus product detects it: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/48cc1036a811eab0ae6680d52ece7554fd3ef707bbc4b6afd333d2eaacb3df7d/detection

[Ben Lubar]

Originally posted by xkaniix:

bruh -_-, go use Malwarebytes or Avast.

Malwarebytes is good for scanning, Avast too but is good for website WWW.
(example; you enter a suspicious site, avast will block it, which malwarebytes will not do)

No need, they already submitted the file to virustotal which scans using both of those and it came back clean.