Reviews on the SMS Veri-Code system?

[The Male/Man]

Has anyone gotten haxxed since they started using it?

[Tev]

Considering it only affects your login, if you allow people access to your computer you're still equally as screwed.

[The Male/Man]

Teutep a écrit :

Considering it only affects your login, if you allow people access to your computer you're still equally as screwed.

True, but rarely are haxxers within strangling distance.

[Tev]

Rarely?

More like 90% of the hijack scenarios here.

People downloading and running malicious files opening up backdoors to their PC.

[The Male/Man]

Teutep a écrit :

Rarely?

More like 90% of the hijack scenarios here.

Huh. Then perhaps I made an uninformed estimation.

Btw, this pic looks uber smexy.

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/418063062075179494/4C909CDD73CCDF7A03932493D100CCBFDC58CBA6/

What game?

[Tev]

You wouldn't believe if I said that's Call of Duty: Ghosts.

So let's pretend it's Crysis 3.

[The Male/Man]

Teutep a écrit :

You wouldn't believe if I said that's Call of Duty: Ghosts.

You're right, I wouldn't believe that, but thank you for telling me anyway.

[The Male/Man]

Teutep a écrit :

People downloading and running malicious files opening up backdoors to their PC.

... Wait, so you mean when someone else downloads and runs malicious files on your PC?

[Tev]

King Void a écrit :

Teutep a écrit :

People downloading and running malicious files opening up backdoors to their PC.

... Wait, so you mean when someone else downloads and runs malicious files on your PC?

No, I mean when people post an "image" to you and you download and run it on your computer (actually a .scr -file)

Or when people tell you to go on a TeamSpeak IP and you're told to download a 'plugin'.

Or you're on a lookalike website and there's a "SteamGuard.exe" which people decide to download and run. (Like OpenID even required that, because it doesn't.)

[The Male/Man]

Teutep a écrit :

King Void a écrit :

... Wait, so you mean when someone else downloads and runs malicious files on your PC?

No, I mean when people post an "image" to you and you download and run it on your computer (actually a .scr -file)

Or when people tell you to go on a TeamSpeak IP and you're told to download a 'plugin'.

Or you're on a lookalike website and there's a "SteamGuard.exe" which people decide to download and run.

And the people who post them are within strangling distance in 90 percent of Steam account hijackings?

[Tev]

King Void a écrit :

Teutep a écrit :

No, I mean when people post an "image" to you and you download and run it on your computer (actually a .scr -file)

Or when people tell you to go on a TeamSpeak IP and you're told to download a 'plugin'.

Or you're on a lookalike website and there's a "SteamGuard.exe" which people decide to download and run.

And those people are within strangling distance in 90 percent of Steam account hijackings?

The first and the second examples.

Pretty much.

You can look at most threads on Help & Tips and you'll get the same idea.

Plus there's this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/wiki/scamtypes

[The Male/Man]

Teutep a écrit :

King Void a écrit :

And those people are within strangling distance in 90 percent of Steam account hijackings?

The first and the second examples.

Pretty much.

You can look at most threads on Help & Tips and you'll get the same idea.

So if someone were to hijack your account in a similar scenario, there's a high chance they would be close enough for you to immediately attempt to strangle them?

[Tev]

I didn't say they physically have to be close enough.

I said that you infect your own PC and you'll allow them remote access to it.

Something that's an alternative method to a login doesn't really play much a role if your Steam -client is up and running on your computer where most of the action is done.

[The Male/Man]

But you said that 90 percent of the time, they're within strangling distance. How can you strangle someone who isn't physically gracing you with their presence, unless you're Mr. Fantastic?

[Tev]

Erm, that's not what I said?

What I said was:

Teutep a écrit :

Rarely?

More like 90% of the hijack scenarios here.

People downloading and running malicious files opening up backdoors to their PC.

Backdoor as in a security hole.

[The Male/Man]

Teutep a écrit :

Erm, that's not what I said?

What I said was:

Teutep a écrit :

Rarely?

More like 90% of the hijack scenarios here.

People downloading and running malicious files opening up backdoors to their PC.

I said rarely are haxxers within Strangling distance.

You said they are for 90 percent of the hijackings on steam.