School Blocks Steam do to "viruses"

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Quebec1390 May 5, 2017 @ 9:50pm

Our school has given freshman and juniors Macbook Air. A few months later they blocked steam and we are no longer able to use or open the application due to "viruses caused by steam". Does steam actually mess up your computer or was something happening with the other school related software?

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Guinchi May 5, 2017 @ 10:37pm

I have a mac and steam and no virus btw

[wan-clan.org] Gordy Freeman May 5, 2017 @ 11:17pm

They probably cannot afford the traffic and needed a "fob off" excuse to tell noobs.

ReBoot May 6, 2017 @ 12:59am

Several AV products flag games as malware and if the admin doesn't have a brain to think for himself, he might blindly trust the AV.

[wan-clan.org] Gordy Freeman May 6, 2017 @ 3:55am

Steam has no place in school anyway kid.

Pay for your own Internet connection.

Dr Pepper May 6, 2017 @ 4:20pm

Originally posted by Gordy Freeman (ACT, Australia):
Steam has no place in school anyway kid.

Pay for your own Internet connection.

To be fair he never said his school connection was being used. He has been given a mac book and presumably the school blocks steam from being installed so he cant use it at home either.

Shadow Slayer May 6, 2017 @ 6:38pm

Try renaming the application, using a virtual box, starting offline, ect.

Their Mac, their rules. FYI steam giving viruses is almost impossible. Notice how I said almost. It can happen, but only having the same chance as browsing the web. They will probably not listen to you, especially since its only for playing games.

If you really want to convice them, make a report containing this:
-Amount of users
-How long steam has been in service
-Valve as a company
-anything in their EULA or TOS that can help (aka legally saying steam software will not give a virus)
-**important** anything that doesn't involve games, preferably to do with education
Some examples: blender, Unreal Dev Kit, Source, and other software can be used for educational purposes. There is also some actual software on steam (not games).

Good luck