Steam.exe deleting itself.

[I will NOT respect your frames]

So I was playing on a match of CS:GO and I couldn't hear In-Game voices. That was odd, because it was the first time that happened to me, so when I finished I told my friend to wait for me because I was going to restart CS:GO. When I tried to open it again, it told me that it was missing a DLL. I tried to check for the cache data but everything was ok. So I tried to restart Steam and when I tried to open it through a shortcut, it wasn't opening, it told me that I was missing the Steam.exe.

So I went to check the Steam files and, of course, I was missing Steam.exe. I tried to reinstall Steam again but it was the same. The file of Steam.exe appeared but when I tried to open it, after updating, it didn't open and I was missing Steam.exe again.

Anybody else having this issue?

P.D.: I have NOT downloaded any files in the meantime or clicked any links.

[Darren]

Files deleting themselves automatically means you have something on your computer that is automatically deleting them. So either you have got some malware on your machine. Or you have an anti-virus program that has detected something in your Steam.exe and keeps deleting it on you (likely a false positive which some anti-virus software does produce).

[Sorata]

Mine has also disappeared. I exited steam earlier and everything was fine but when I go to open it the shortcut can't find the .exe and the .exe isn't in the program files. Everything else is there, just not the .exe.

[Sorata]

OP, Do you have avast! antivirus? I do and another thread on here has a screenshot of avast reporting the steam.exe as a trojan and deleting it.

[Pokemon on my Xbox]

is your antivirus avast people are reporting their steam.exe getting deleted with that AV

[Père Pantoufle]

I had the same problem here (avast! and steam.exe deleted), did anyone on the other thread find a way to correct this ?

[Sorata]

The way I fixed it, I updated avast and its virus definitions, restarted, then went on to avast>settings>exclusions and added the file path for steam by going on browse, navigating to the folder which contains the steam install and checking the box.
Then I went back in to where steam was installed, found "steam.exe.old", made a copy and removed the '.old'. Used it to start steam, where it quickly updated itself and has been fine since.

[I will NOT respect your frames]

I scanned it with Avast! and it tells me that nothing was found, so it can't be that.

[Banana]

Originally posted by Zezti:

The way I fixed it, I updated avast and its virus definitions, restarted, then went on to avast>settings>exclusions and added the file path for steam by going on browse, navigating to the folder which contains the steam install and checking the box.
Then I went back in to where steam was installed, found "steam.exe.old", made a copy and removed the '.old'. Used it to start steam, where it quickly updated itself and has been fine since.

Thank you heaps! :D

[zingus, my beloved]

Originally posted by Zezti:

OP, Do you have avast! antivirus? I do and another thread on here has a screenshot of avast reporting the steam.exe as a trojan and deleting it.

♥♥♥♥ me Avast does Delete it claiming its a virus Thanks buddy

[Cgangsta123]

Originally posted by BlueBerry:

Originally posted by Zezti:

OP, Do you have avast! antivirus? I do and another thread on here has a screenshot of avast reporting the steam.exe as a trojan and deleting it.

♥♥♥♥ me Avast does Delete it claiming its a virus Thanks buddy

The only problem is the same thing happened to me but I don't have avast, I have Bitdefender. All did was I booted my computer up and then the errors started popping up. I then just re-installed steam but all of my games got deleted. Pretty lame that something deleted steam randomly, Hopefully all of my data is saved........ Fingers crossed.... ♥♥♥♥♥♥

[Колдун]

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[GPRO SUPERLIGHT]

It just happened to me.. Thanks for the info! :)

[M i X]

[76561198919641093]

Hey guys I think this would help ur problem if u still have this problem
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3329-WUJN-5636

[Rastix]

Originally posted by Sorata:

The way I fixed it, I updated avast and its virus definitions, restarted, then went on to avast>settings>exclusions and added the file path for steam by going on browse, navigating to the folder which contains the steam install and checking the box.
Then I went back in to where steam was installed, found "steam.exe.old", made a copy and removed the '.old'. Used it to start steam, where it quickly updated itself and has been fine since.

it helped. thanks