Does valve check if a game has a virus

[Let It Marinate]

Does valve check if a game has a virus or not before being released on steam?

[Maho]

Yes.

Valve actively monitors and tests games to ensure they're safe and free of malware.

[Dr. Fronkensteen]

Yes.

[Let It Marinate]

But valve doesn't have 100% of control of what publishers are putting in their games.
For ex the street fighter v rootkit problem.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

That is for their anti-cheat. That is approved.

[Brujeira]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

That is for their anti-cheat. That is approved.

:qr:

True enough, it's CapCom's crappy coding that lead to the problem rather than any deliberate illwill towards the user. Plus, it's not like it's the only anti-cheat that uses kernel level access...

[Satoru]

Originally posted by wasdoll:

But valve doesn't have 100% of control of what publishers are putting in their games.
For ex the street fighter v rootkit problem.

That wasnt a virus

If you're going to classify "exploitation of game code" as a "virus" then feel free to all steam itself a "virus"

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by wasdoll:

But valve doesn't have 100% of control of what publishers are putting in their games.
For ex the street fighter v rootkit problem.

That wasnt a virus

If you're going to classify "exploitation of game code" as a "virus" then feel free to all steam itself a "virus"

Remember, people call cheating "hacking" on here, so calling an exploit a virus isn't too far away from their thinking.

[Vault Hunter 101]

Originally posted by wasdoll:

But valve doesn't have 100% of control of what publishers are putting in their games.
For ex the street fighter v rootkit problem.

I suggest you should notify your antivirus software creators about it, it's what they call "false positive" aka when safe program gets 'detected' as a virus

The game doesn't contain any rootkits

[Let It Marinate]

Originally posted by Vault Hunter 101:

Originally posted by wasdoll:

But valve doesn't have 100% of control of what publishers are putting in their games.
For ex the street fighter v rootkit problem.

I suggest you should notify your antivirus software creators about it, it's what they call "false positive" aka when safe program gets 'detected' as a virus

The game doesn't contain any rootkits

It did.
It was all over the news

[MalikQayum]

the answer is both yes and no i would say, it is uncertain what valve actually do check but one thing is for sure, they do check if the game actually launches.
This means that they actually approve the first build you send them, or it maybe be automated but either way a game can not be released before that process has happened.

that said once approved, valve does not check the build process again, so techniqually a dev/pub with malicious intent could upload a clean working game to get it approved then later change it and add malicious stuff to that new buil, since this new build wont be checked.

so to answer you, no they do not check it upon actually release whether or not you have later changed the game to have malicious stuff added to it upon release because a previous build has already been approved.

[talgaby]

Considering actual malware has been found once on Steam instead of a game, no. Maybe since then they wrote an algorithm that does that.

But up until now, Valve made no checks. This is how we could have game repositories where there was no executable or one where downloading the game resulted in a 0-byte directory since there was no repository.

Supposedly, they are now changing it and some actual humans will look at the uploaded data, but this excuse has been floating around for 4-5 years now.

[Let It Marinate]

So do you guys think it is actually safe and fine to buy games off steam?

[Let It Marinate]

Originally posted by talgaby:

Considering actual malware has been found once on Steam instead of a game, no. Maybe since then they wrote an algorithm that does that.

But up until now, Valve made no checks. This is how we could have game repositories where there was no executable or one where downloading the game resulted in a 0-byte directory since there was no repository.

Supposedly, they are now changing it and some actual humans will look at the uploaded data, but this excuse has been floating around for 4-5 years now.

So do you think it is actually safe and fine to buy games off steam?

[Washell]

Originally posted by Get Gaming:

So do you think it is actually safe and fine to buy games off steam?

Yes. There are tried and tested methods to check for malware that have been in place and functioning for decades, through floppy disks, cd's, dvd's and now digital distribution.

Originally posted by talgaby:

But up until now, Valve made no checks. This is how we could have game repositories where there was no executable or one where downloading the game resulted in a 0-byte directory since there was no repository.

Testing for malware isn't the same as testing for executables. Submitting a basic copy to valve as part of Steam Direct verification isn't the same as verifying the depository for release is uploaded in a functional state. You're making an awful lot of assumptions and correlations there that don't hold up.

[The Giving One]

Antivirus software reports Steam games are malicious

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4361-MVDP-3638