HELP I CLICKED A SCAM LINK!!!

[One Man Gang]

i accidently clicked one of those stupid scam fake links , i've been getting lots of these fake accounts , i accidently clicked one in a gta v discussion , i clicked it , waited and nothing happened , so i closed it , ppl wrote that it was a scam link down bellow so i realized that i 've done ♥♥♥♥ , whats the worst thing that woud happen and what can i do?


P.S.: i just changed both my steam acc and gmail password

[Claus]

Check your PC with a virus scan (thats obviously). What you can do else, is you can check the startup section in your registry & start menu, WINDOWS+R (Run) and then type in "msconfig" in "programs" or startup" are all programs that are going to be started up if you start windows. There you can simply de-check the programs, you dont know. These wont start anymore, unless you click on the .exe . Hope that helped, sorry for my bad english ;)

[Tev]

You probably clicked some image link that was actually a masked redirection URL that led to a download parameter suffix enabled URL; like one ending with &dl=1 where dl is an acronym for download and 1 is binary code for enabled.

IN SHORT: You were redirected to a website that downloaded a virus on your computer.

You should run an antivirus & -malware scan on your computer, I'd advice Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: https://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/

After that, register a Steam Support account at https://support.steampowered.com/register.php
-> Create a Steam Support ticket at https://support.steampowered.com/newticket.php

Fill out the ticket similarly:
Step 1
What product are you having an issue with?
Steam
What type of problem are you having?
Account Issues
Hijacked or stolen account
Step 2
Subject: <Enter topic title, can be as something simple as 'Hijacked account'>
Your Question: <Enter what happened here; Steam Support can likely figure out from the mass more or less what happened, but information doesn't hurt.>
Add attachment <for providing Proof of Ownership <- Clickable; if necessary>
Additional Information
Steam Account Login Name <The name you use at login; can also be found at https://store.steampowered.com/account/ as x's account>
CD Key <I do believe this is to be left empty in this context.>
Submit Question
Now wait 2-4 weeks; there's no official ETA - but that's how long it generally takes for them to respond right now.

[One Man Gang]

i dont know wtf is going on , my AV sais failed to scan

using norton 360 (i think thats how its called)

[Red]

To be double sure you're not infected do a virus and malware scan in Windows safe mode. Nothing can hide then.

[Red]

Originally posted by billMRF:

i dont know wtf is going on , my AV sais failed to scan

using norton 360 (i think thats how its called)

Opps didn't see this, yea go into safe mode and try again.

[lostMR2]

ok

[Faliment]

I dont know man...

[One Man Gang]

i took a look at my startup programs and there is just a program with no name, no publisher , and no icon , coud it be suspicious?
EDIT: startup impact is not measured and i cant open file location

[Red]

Originally posted by billMRF:

i took a look at my startup programs and there is just a program with no name, no publisher , and no icon , coud it be suspicious?

It might be a program that got left in the Start-up when you uninstalled a program and Windows didn't manage to remove that entry correctly.
But you shouldn't see irreversible changes made by removing a program from startup.
So if it worries you remove it.

[Red]

Originally posted by billMRF:

EDIT: startup impact is not measured and i cant open file location

Yea this sounds like what i said before, the location probably legitimately doesn't exist, but still appears like it is because it didn't totally uninstall.
This is speculation however.

If nothing appeared doing an anti-virus and anti-malware scan in safe mode then you're probably safe.

[One Man Gang]

i just finished a full scan , turns out i didnt have anything exceps some ''tracking cookies'' thanks to everyone that helped me