E-mail notification when your account logs in from different IP than usual.

[Chew Ass and Kick Bubblegum]

For security, steam should send a warning e-mail everytime when your account gets online from IP that is different from usual. It should also tell you from which IP your account was logned in.
This matters pretty much for paranoic people like me, who´s accounts got stolen but they managed to get it back.

[Satoru]

To be honest this is worthless.

This just tells you 'HEY you've been hijacked' and there's nothing you can do. This is more or less like a pager beeping you that you've been clubbed in the head after the fact.

You should be taking steps to PREVENT hijacks. If you're paranoid that's where you should be spending energy. Not on being notified that you're account is screwed over after the fact

Plus functionally you already have this feature

It's called SteamGuard

[Chew Ass and Kick Bubblegum]

My account has already been stolen once, there is something you can do, contact steam support, it helped me! Steam guard is useless for me, every week or two it refuses to connect from my computer, so I have to wait hour for e-mail with that special code. But my IP doesn´t change.

[Valeriaan]

Wouldn't this be an absolute nightmare for people with dynamic IP's, though?

P.S. This should probably be in "suggestions" and not in "discussion". ;-)

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Scimitar101:

My account has already been stolen once, there is something you can do, contact steam support, it helped me! Steam guard is useless for me, every week or two it refuses to connect from my computer, so I have to wait hour for e-mail with that special code. But my IP doesn´t change.

Ah so now we see what the 'real' problem is. Let me reiterate something

YOU ARE SOLVING THE WRONG PROBLEM

Steamguard should not be doing that, ergo you should be solving the problem of WHY does SteamGuard do that.

Generally speaking this is because of aggressive cookies cleaners that obliterate the cookies that Steam user to store your session. That's where you should be looking at. I can have SteamGuard enabled for MONTHS without issue. You have something that's wiping out the cookies for Steam. FIX IT.

Then

1) your idea becomes moot
2) Your account is more secure

However you should also do the following because it sounds like you need A LOT of help with account security

1) Enable SteamGUard THIS IS NOT OPTIONAL NEVER DISABLE THIS
2) use gmail
3) Link Google Authenticator to Gmail
4) Ensure your gmail password is COMPLEX and NOT REUSED ANYWHERE on the Internet
5) Install anti-virus
6) keep your OS up to date constantly
7) Be wary of phishing sites or sites that offer 'free anything'

Those steps will thwart all but the most dedicated 'hackers' and when I mean 'hackers' I mean 'idiots that make other idiots post their login information on a webiste to steal it'

[Chew Ass and Kick Bubblegum]

I just want an option "send e-mail when account logins from different IP", on/off.

To those websited with steam skin where you type your login, that is exactly the reason why my account has been stolen two years ago...since then I got about 5 or 6 chat messages with steam skin pages, after recieving the message the sender always goes off and doesn´t respond. Something has to be done with this.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by Scimitar101:

I just want an option "send e-mail when account logins from different IP", on/off.

Since an account hijack cannot be done without the hijacker accessing your email (Unles one follows stupidly bad security practices, like disabling steamguard) receiving an email warning is pointless, since the hijacker is already in control of the email, or changed it, so no email is received.
These warnings are only useful for systems like webmail interfaces where one can be simultaneously connected from several places at once. Since you can only be logged at one place at any given time, warning you that you have logged elsewhere is redundant.
It's either you or there is nothing to do with the warning, since you no longer control the account.

As Satoru said, you are solving the wrong problem. The system is pretty much secure as long as someone desn't follow unsafe practices.

Originally posted by Scimitar101:

To those websited with steam skin where you type your login, that is exactly the reason why my account has been stolen two years ago...since then I got about 5 or 6 chat messages with steam skin pages, after recieving the message the sender always goes off and doesn´t respond. Something has to be done with this.

Next time pay attention to the "The website you are going to open is NOT on Steam, do not put your username/passwords on that site" warning when opening an external link[www.google.com] from within Steam. I've received and read lots of those, yet my account is still safe.
No system can be made to stop users from doing stupid things.

[Chew Ass and Kick Bubblegum]

Since then I don´t open ANY links I get through chat or comment.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Scimitar101:

I just want an option "send e-mail when account logins from different IP", on/off.

To those websited with steam skin where you type your login, that is exactly the reason why my account has been stolen two years ago...since then I got about 5 or 6 chat messages with steam skin pages, after recieving the message the sender always goes off and doesn´t respond. Something has to be done with this.

Again SteamGuard is this option.

You MUST enable SteamGuard and KEEP IT ENABLED

You MUST protect your email using gmail and use google authenticator

You MUST ensure your email password is COMPLEX and NOT REUSED ANYWHERE