The Steam Service on your machine requires maintanence (Help!)

[Timotheus]

So when I booted up my PC today and opened steam, I was greeted with a popup.

"The Steam Service on your machine requires maintanence.

This service helps Steam install or update games, enables anti-cheat detection in some titles and assists with other system level tasks.

Reinstalling the Steam service requires administrator privileges."

I could either click "INSTALL SERVICE" or "CANCEL". I clicked install service, not thinking twice it wasn't valve. It froze and the administrator prvileges thing came up and it said it was a verified publisher, from valve. So I accepted it, not thinking twice. I then noticed, wait a minute. "Maintanence". Thats a spelling error. I quickly ran into task manager and stopped the official steam service, and it made it go away. I then opened steam again, and it was fine.

So, was it a hijacking service? Did steam just spell something wrong?? I'm running malwarebtyes and avast scans right now, nothing yet. Please help

[emoticorpse]

https://www.reddit.com/r/steamsupport/comments/ftgbwg/the_steam_service_on_your_machine_requires/

looks real, but I don't remember ever seeing it

[Timotheus]

Originally posted by emoticorpse:

https://www.reddit.com/r/steamsupport/comments/ftgbwg/the_steam_service_on_your_machine_requires/

looks real, but I don't remember ever seeing it

Yea I was there, some dude in there found a trojan in his steam files, so I'm wondering if its again, real, or its a hijacking thing. Because the misspelling is so odd.

[emoticorpse]

Originally posted by Kapitan Timofeyevich:

Originally posted by emoticorpse:

https://www.reddit.com/r/steamsupport/comments/ftgbwg/the_steam_service_on_your_machine_requires/

looks real, but I don't remember ever seeing it

Yea I was there, some dude in there found a trojan in his steam files, so I'm wondering if its again, real, or its a hijacking thing. Because the misspelling is so odd.

Well, I doubt it came from steam. If you think there's a chance some shady files you downloaded and ran did it, I would take proper precautions.

[Timotheus]

I ran a scan with malwarebtyes and avast, nothing.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Don't put any game client in OS startup. Put a shortcut where you want it, then right click it and click on RUN As Admin.

[Timotheus]

What do you mean by "Don't put any game client in OS startup"?

[76561199047579146]

Try to uninstall steam completly,scan for viruses,and again install

[Timotheus]

Ah ok. I did install it but then it froze and I just killed it through task maanger. I scanned for viruses and found nothing. My steam is fine, its just. The spelling error is so, odd.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Just what I said.
They have start with Windows options, never use that.

Dont uninstall Steam if you have games installed, just do a steam repair

Go to where steam client is installed, delete everything in that folder EXCEPT FOR THE FOLLOWING...

Steam.exe (app)
DepotCache (folder)
SteamApps (folder)
UserData (folder)

Also delete what's inside...

C:/Users/AppData/Local/Steam
^Check the AppData/Roaming folder also.

Now with all those old junk clutter of files gone, you will have only lateat client files with latest version freshly downloaded. To do this, now right click Steam.exe and click Run As Admin. Wait for the download to complete and for the client to load. Any client settings you had are all defaults now, so be sure to change what you need.

When you are done using a game client, make sure it gets fully exited. Avoid restarting/shutting down the PC before exiting all your game clients. As this could undo some things you changed while it was running. And the client will think it crashed and this could corrupt some files.

[76561199047579146]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Just what I said.
They have start with Windows options, never use that.

Maybe that was scam or smth like advertisement,idk rly i had same pop up but without misspell,i installed and works good

[Timotheus]

Oh you mean as soon as I start my PC it automaticly launches and checks for updates? You mean that?

[Timotheus]

Originally posted by Nemanja ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Just what I said.
They have start with Windows options, never use that.

Maybe that was scam or smth like advertisement,idk rly i had same pop up but without misspell,i installed and works good

Maybe you did have the same popup and just didn't notice the misspell, who knows

[76561199047579146]

U should turn off that when pc launches,steam doesn't put that,it check for updates when u normally launch steam,not when u start windows

[76561199047579146]

Originally posted by Kapitan Timofeyevich:

Originally posted by Nemanja ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Maybe that was scam or smth like advertisement,idk rly i had same pop up but without misspell,i installed and works good

Maybe you did have the same popup and just didn't notice the misspell, who knows

No i didn't i read it all,and i scanned pc and didn't had any spyware or smth

[Timotheus]

Alright, just turned off "Run Steam when my computer starts", if thats what you mean.