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iamdumberthanyou 2019 年 6 月 26 日 上午 11:55
Can you get viruses from Steam and it's games?
I've been using Steam for 4 years and never came across a virus from downloading games. My parents have a computer that's very fast unlike my laptop which is slow. They have very classified info on it and I downloaded Steam on it few months ago. I played on it and was super fast. Smooth quality and all that. Let get straight to the point. My parents think the computer will be compromised by malware and everything and all of our data, passwords, pictures; because of Steam. Like I said. I never came across a virus. They don't believe me. What should I tell them? I say its safe but for them, it's not.
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-$ilver- 2021 年 9 月 19 日 上午 11:51 
What about when a game asks for User Account Control? "Do you want to allow this app from an unknown publisher to make changes to your device?"

I've had this issue before, but never with an unknown publisher. How or why are they unknown? It is Big Mutha Truckers 2 and their discussion area is not even a page long with unanswered questions, so I am not even going to bother asking there. All things considered that is cause for concern. I may just ask for a refund, but was curious if others have came across this issue or why they would be an unknown publisher. Does giving access like that allow for bad things to happen to PCs? Are you only installing what Steam has already checked and deemed safe or something else out of Steam's control? Thank you.
Muppet among Puppets 2021 年 9 月 19 日 下午 1:29 
The only difference if it was a known publisher in that prompt would be a digital signature.
That is no guarantee of the content though.

In the case of steam the important part should be the source. If you load something else from the internet, and the signature fits to what you load, there is a better sureness you are not loading a fake thing (as long as the signature was not obtained by a malwarewriter and the malware is distributed under the mask of the product that fits the expectation).

Though, the actual source is always important! I assume steam is a source that checks what it lets people download.

The prompt itself likely means the game requires more than user rights.
Judgmental Amaterasu 2021 年 10 月 30 日 上午 10:25 
引用自 Bubi's 🌸
Check this discussions about a game having trojan
https://steamcommunity.com/app/893030/discussions/0/1776010325123194595/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/893030/discussions/0/1678063648162351437/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/893030/discussions/0/1741100729955370372/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/893030/discussions/0/1657817111857240161/

Those have all been verified as false positives and ignorant users jumping to conclusions because they read 2 people online saying something.
Muppet among Puppets 2021 年 10 月 30 日 上午 11:45 
引用自 Damp Wizard Sleeve
引用自 Bubi's 🌸
Check this discussions about a game having trojan
https://steamcommunity.com/app/893030/discussions/0/1776010325123194595/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/893030/discussions/0/1678063648162351437/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/893030/discussions/0/1741100729955370372/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/893030/discussions/0/1657817111857240161/

Those have all been verified as false positives and ignorant users jumping to conclusions because they read 2 people online saying something.
More than half of the antivirus at virustotal detect it as something. Some generic, others with a name. I am not sure i would like that on my computer
Haruspex 2021 年 10 月 30 日 下午 1:26 
Tale as old as time. Computer slow? Must be those damn games.

This has been the go-to of clueless parents since computers have been a thing.

I wish I knew how you could convince your parents otherwise. I went through an entire childhood with no success there. All I can suggest is to use your own hardware and leave your parent's to them. That way if something goes wrong they can't blame you or your games.
Washell 2021 年 10 月 30 日 下午 1:56 
引用自 Damp Wizard Sleeve

Those have all been verified as false positives and ignorant users jumping to conclusions because they read 2 people online saying something.
More than half of the antivirus at virustotal detect it as something. Some generic, others with a name. I am not sure i would like that on my computer
Some of those state explicitly it's a heuristic detection. As in, they haven't found the actual virus, but a bit of code that resembles it. The thing about the bit of code is that it can do good as well as harm. In the hands of a virus, it shuts down processes that protect your PC. In the hands of this game it shut down a process that doesn't closes properly. It's a quick and dirty workaround, but harmless overall.

You share 20% of genes (code) with a potato, are you now a cannibal?
最後修改者:Washell; 2021 年 10 月 30 日 下午 1:56
wuddih 2021 年 10 月 30 日 下午 2:26 
引用自 Damp Wizard Sleeve

Those have all been verified as false positives and ignorant users jumping to conclusions because they read 2 people online saying something.
More than half of the antivirus at virustotal detect it as something. Some generic, others with a name. I am not sure i would like that on my computer
cautious files are not present in public Steam depot since more than 2 years and probably related to development.
-$ilver- 2021 年 10 月 30 日 下午 8:03 
Don't put code that resembles a false positive.
Kitsune 🌸 2021 年 10 月 31 日 下午 7:14 
引用自 Damp Wizard Sleeve

Those have all been verified as false positives and ignorant users jumping to conclusions because they read 2 people online saying something.
More than half of the antivirus at virustotal detect it as something. Some generic, others with a name. I am not sure i would like that on my computer
yeah i still dont know if its dangerous or not so never downloading
mkael5000 2022 年 11 月 7 日 上午 4:23 
You will not get any previously known virus from steam downloads directly. That content is scanned and verified to be clean.

Though games are usually not programmed in a very secure manner, so many of the games themself has various security holes, which can be used to get access into your computer if a certain party is interested enough of your data.

Also the same way it is possible to write for example a worm, which can exploit certain game to infect the system after a game ins installed and running and keep on spreading to other machines running the game (if I would be a game studio, I would have a honeypot machine running my game and monitor all unexpected behavior of the computer to catch that kind of attacks asap).
Hennix 2022 年 11 月 7 日 上午 4:25 
引用自 mkael5000
You will not get any previously known virus from steam downloads directly. That content is scanned and verified to be clean.

Though games are usually not programmed in a very secure manner, so many of the games themself has various security holes, which can be used to get access into your computer if a certain party is interested enough of your data.

Also the same way it is possible to write for example a worm, which can exploit certain game to infect the system after a game ins installed and running and keep on spreading to other machines running the game (if I would be a game studio, I would have a honeypot machine running my game and monitor all unexpected behavior of the computer to catch that kind of attacks asap).
you are a ghoul
NybbleMe 2022 年 11 月 7 日 上午 5:37 
"They have very classified info on it" then you shouldn't be using it. If you mean private personal information like social security numbers and tax info and financial info then...yeah that's safe. Just don't go pirating ANYTHING from the internet cuz that stuff often isn't. but classified implies they're govt employees and it's a govt laptop and you shouldn't be touching it ever.
Drossdude 2023 年 2 月 9 日 下午 10:33 
引用自 Jerry
“a while back, one game was removed after it was found to be mining bitcoins”

I have recently discovered a few more games that appear to be mining bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies on my device, as even being in the menu runs my 4070ti at 100%. The more popular ones are Rock Simulator and Paint Drying Simulator, and I made the mistake of getting them both. I have reported both, but steam has not removed them and I am not sure what to do. I am also wondering if it is possible that they could continue mining crypto on my PC even after I have uninstalled them, much like contemporary mining malware.

Not sure if you are able to answer my questions, but please go about reporting the above games, and hopefully informing anyone who was planning on purchasing them to NOT.

Thank you.
最後修改者:Drossdude; 2023 年 2 月 9 日 下午 10:33
Illasera 2023 年 8 月 19 日 下午 6:43 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJZjWXxUEl4&t=344s

street fighter 5, installed rootkit that can be used to give an attacker full control.

"But capcom removed it by now" - An avid reader.

Yes, they had, and, if it happened before, what stopping it from happening again?

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So , let us think, a software like steam, that sole purpose, is to download files from the internet (steam servers), overwrite your files as well as delete and add new files during updates, most of them will be .exe and .dll binary files that can host malware that you are probably going to run, as they are part of your game / software you got from steam.

do you think you can get infected by steam games?
the answer is YES, of course you can get malware from steam.

"But they are scanned , checked and double checked" - No, impossible, even virustotal com that runs 70 anti-viruses let some slip by, you have self-modifying code, you have scripts that an interpreter can run and cause problems, windows WMI calls (So you don't even leave a file to be marked as malware), (You can even do it with a simple .ini file (desktop ini canary), the list goes on.

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AND LET'S NOT FORGET, that steam has a service running in the background when you boot up your machine with full privileges (service means running in kernel mode) and nobody knows what it does (I asked steam support, i got a no answer, answer (Ahhhh, we don't know, its our tech team, they know))
最後修改者:Illasera; 2023 年 8 月 20 日 上午 5:38
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