Is it possible to get viruses from steam

[Jack_Philips]

about 2 years ago windows defender gave a notification about a virus named Tiggre aka Tiggre!rfn Tiggre!plock.İ cant find any concrete answers for whats the purpose of it now but it was chillin in steamapps -> common.It was hiding in some fake game files that i have never downloaded like pubg and dota files and names were exactly like this.I saw some people also claimin that you can get it if you are downloading games from steam on reddit.There is some discussions about it here aswell especially one anime game that dev claims its a false positive in 2017 but latest comment in that discussion is about 1 month ago which is i am not risking my pc for this.I am not downloading anything from web to this pc its only for gaming.I have another one to do it.But can it be false positive then how tf it created those fake files or can it come from games community servers.I removed it with safe mode and windows defender back in the day and i remembered it lately how was that possible.

[Aluvard]

Impossible - No.
Extremely unlikely - Yes.

It was probably false positive.

[RiO]

Originally posted by Aluvard:

Impossible - No.
Extremally unlikely - Yes.

It was probably false positive.

Seconding.

It's as likely to get malware via Steam as it is to get malware via e.g. the Google Play Store, or the Apple App Store. (Well-- okay; probably slightly more likely than those, due to Valve having less stringent checks on certain things than those walled garden platforms do.)

Which is to say: it's good to be observant about such things and not be a total sheep about it; but it's still extremely unlikely.

If you want to rule things out and want stronger confirmation of them being a false positive, submit the indicted files to a service like VirusTotal which has it scanned by an entire flock of different AV vendors and then check what all of them have to say.

[Jack_Philips]

Originally posted by RiO:

Originally posted by Aluvard:

Impossible - No.
Extremally unlikely - Yes.

It was probably false positive.

Seconding.

It's as likely to get malware via Steam as it is to get malware via e.g. the Google Play Store, or the Apple App Store. (Well-- okay; probably slightly more likely than those, due to Valve having less stringent checks on certain things than those walled garden platforms do.)

Which is to say: it's good to be observant about such things and not be a total sheep about it; but it's still extremely unlikely.

If you want to rule things out and want stronger confirmation of them being a false positive, submit the indicted files to a service like VirusTotal which has it scanned by an entire flock of different AV vendors and then check what all of them have to say.

My files are long gone so i cant but i saw someones tiggre rfn virus total scan and it was pretty much red but we cant exactly sure about mine.I dont know the exact reason but that anime game starlight of aeons got removed from the steam store start of this year after didnt fixing that false positive issue in 8 years which is also sus.Probably so much different games has things like this and we dont even know name of the malware or game to check out for more.I also dont know how that fake game files created on my pc aswell didnt see any similar cases about that malware so can it be related to false positive detection idk

[Lithurge]

It's not the ones your AV detects you've got to worry about.

Besides even if you aren't connecting your gaming PC to the internet for downloading if you're moving files from your other PC to that one or if you're gaming online with it there's still a risk, because nothing is ever 100% safe. Be cautious not paranoid and don't take everything you read on the internet at face value.

[Wolfpig]

Originally posted by Jack_Philips:

I dont know the exact reason but that anime game starlight of aeons got removed from the steam store start of this year after didnt fixing that false positive issue in 8 years which is also sus.[[/quote]


I doubt that a game gets removed for AV companies being not able to update their definition databases ;)
And no, it is not the job of a game developer to fix false positives for other companies, as they would do the mistake.

If the game had something in it which should not be there then it would have been removed long time ago or never ended up in the store.

[Jack_Philips]

Originally posted by Lithurge:

It's not the ones your AV detects you've got to worry about.

Besides even if you aren't connecting your gaming PC to the internet for downloading if you're moving files from your other PC to that one or if you're gaming online with it there's still a risk, because nothing is ever 100% safe. Be cautious not paranoid and don't take everything you read on the internet at face value.

thats for sure nothing is 100% safe also not paranoid at all this was more than 2 years ago and never got any sus thing since then the post was only for discussing an interesting topic

[Aluvard]

You've a better chance of being hit by lighting. Regarding mentioned game - I wouldn't be surprised if it really was due to overzealous heuristics, rather than a real malware case.

[black batler]

it is possible but hardly tbh

[Dura_Ace]

Possible? Yes.
Likely? No

I will repeat what others have said as statistically is is possible but highly unlikely.

I forget which linux repository was infected for over two years but the story broke either last year or the year before. So even linux can be made to serve up crap if the people serving it up made this possible.

[Lithurge]

Originally posted by Jack_Philips:

thats for sure nothing is 100% safe also not paranoid at all this was more than 2 years ago and never got any sus thing since then the post was only for discussing an interesting topic

Personally I'd say not connecting your pc to the internet veers towards paranoia. I've been using PC's and the internet since 1995 and not had a virus on any of them.

[Jack_Philips]

Originally posted by Lithurge:

Originally posted by Jack_Philips:

thats for sure nothing is 100% safe also not paranoid at all this was more than 2 years ago and never got any sus thing since then the post was only for discussing an interesting topic

Personally I'd say not connecting your pc to the internet veers towards paranoia. I've been using PC's and the internet since 1995 and not had a virus on any of them.

im connecting my pc to internet tho i am playing online games connecting to community servers or so.Downloading nothing and not even connecting to internet is different to me.I am using another pc for non gaming things and never seen any sus i am using it for downloading from web aswell.Also the thing happened to me and others was a false positive %99 percent but you know we are talking about some kind of conspiracy theory which is the main thing of this post

[PurpleCreativeValiant]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/207650/A_Virus_Named_TOM/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/861020/Virus/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1514900/True_Virus/

[Start_Running]

Possible, but unlikely,

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

It has happened before but they are extremely rare and not impacting more than a few dozen accounts when they do.

This was a recent one...

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/601892477917462878/