My profile picture just got changed by a URL... This is confusing and worrying.

[Dingle Wangus]

A friend sent me a URL and I clicked it, and next thing I know is I get redirected to my steam profile with this weird penguin as my profile picture. When reverse google image searching the image, you get many steam profiles. The oldest one with that profile picture is a guy named "Super penguin" I am not sure if this is related, but here is his steam profile link: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Smith21
Additionally, what makes this the fishiest, is that I got the message from a guy I never talk to. I clicked the link because I thought it was simply a stat page or something. When I acted all confused, he just said "Haha" and did not reply again. Here is the URL if any of you are wondering (DO NOT CLICK. It may be malicious, I have yet to confirm it isn't, and I don't want anyone to get infected.)

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[Felix]

It's not malicious. It's just a silly prank that changes your avatar to that penguin (which is an official avatar for some game on Steam).

Remove the link from your post, please, else you're just giving more people the link to use themselves.

[Dingle Wangus]

Originally posted by Moon Pie Shelley Bean:

It's a very stupid thing to do to click on URLs from people - even if you know them. They may unwittingly have a system that is infected with malware or a bot is spoofing their contact details from your system.

Anyway - I do not allow javascript, activeX controls and such on my browser settings, which seems to prevent this link from causing any adverse issues with me.

I simply get the link to Hary {hy}'s leaderboard page.

I only really clicked the link because it was a steamcommunity.com link. Well, I'm glad it's just a prank.

[Felix]

St00f -> Please remove the link from your post. There's no need to pass the link on for others to use.

[ChrisW]

Just goes to show that all someone has to do is post a link on the forums and someone will click it.

[LOSRAYT]

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