Is steam.exe virus?

[mundhetriya62]

I did a total virus scan for all startup programs as usual today. And It detected steam.exe as a virus... What to do???


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Found a quick solution on the internet for it.
1. remove steam from autostart
2. add steam to the whitelist

1. To remove autostart:-
open this in Regedit:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and just remove entry for steam from there.
This also speeds up booting time for the low-end system.(Hope you know what it means, coz I don't.)

2. to add to whitelist:-
Open windows security> virus and threat protection> manage settings > add or remove exclusions
click on add an exclusion> folder
Select a steam directory and click select a folder...

DONE!!!

This will stop others from detecting steam as a virus...

Hope this helps. :)

[mundhetriya62]

This link says something different:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/752ac6ab6ec58c14bcbae0409ac732e4846a37838919806d1cf1b4cd19095f82/detection
If it was any game, I would Hapily delete it, but after uninstalling steam, my games stopped working.... I already paid for my games, so why cant I play them..... If steam is virus, then steam should fix it.... Or is it just my system? Did anyone else tested steam.exe with virus total..... Trojan is not a small thing.

[Night]

Steam isn't a virus or any form of malware, I agree with Aachen saying that it's a false positive.

I ran my Steam file through VirusTotal and nothing was detected.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7bcc5574d338a650fe8ed3984023fad6d431d1f708f9860f7577f86e5cbf683c?nocache=1

Make sure that you have downloaded Steam from: https://store.steampowered.com/about/

[mundhetriya62]

Originally posted by imNTGames_:

Steam isn't a virus or any form of malware, I agree with Aachen saying that it's a false positive.

I ran my Steam file through VirusTotal and nothing was detected.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7bcc5574d338a650fe8ed3984023fad6d431d1f708f9860f7577f86e5cbf683c?nocache=1

Make sure that you have downloaded Steam from: https://store.steampowered.com/about/

I think you ran the scan on the shortcut file, try the same on the steam.exe file.

[mundhetriya62]

For steam.exe in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe
This shows the virus today:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/752ac6ab6ec58c14bcbae0409ac732e4846a37838919806d1cf1b4cd19095f82
One week ago it was fine:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c1b2db9983f081d0629dba424458d0fe66a093ca9c56d89f03b715d3cdde18eb

[Zekiran]

If it is the same steam exe as it was, your virus scanner is picking something up and not understanding what it is.

Did you change your steam system IN ANY WAY?

I mean, that is the steam executable. It's supposed to be there. It's worked for over 17 years for hundreds of millions of people.

Unless you got it from "somewhere other than steam" - which IS possible, if someone told you to dl it or get a 'new one here' or something ... it's a false positive and their system needs to understand what it's seeing isn't a virus.

[mundhetriya62]

Yup, Steam update steam.exe regularly,
Old steam.exe week ago was 3.92MB and had no virus report of virusTotal.
New steam.exe today is 4.07MB and it has a virus in the report of virusTotal.
I think this new update is getting detected as Win.Trojan.Generic-9907912-0. They might have added some code which might be a virus.

The system I use is kinda part of the office network. So They won't let me keep virus files in it. I been using steam for like 3 years without a problem, but today this virus report came up... And uninstalling steam is leading to stopping any games which I purchased from running.

I tried reinstalling steam, but the same thing is happening... I tried to get an old copy of steam that did not have a virus... But steam auto-updated it to this new version which is a virus file..... What to do... Where to contact steam support... I mean is there such customer support existing for steam?

[Callahan420]

Just whitelist the steam.exe in the antivirus.

[Zekiran]

Steam doesn't distribute viruses. Whitelist the folders, it genuinely isn't going to ever be a virus.

Go to that virus scanner's website and tell THEM. it's throwing a false positive on something that it shouldn't.

[mundhetriya62]

How to white list steam.exe on virustotal.com?

[Zekiran]

Ask them, I didn't write it.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Originally posted by mundhetriya62:

Yup, Steam update steam.exe regularly,
Old steam.exe week ago was 3.92MB and had no virus report of virusTotal.
New steam.exe today is 4.07MB and it has a virus in the report of virusTotal.
I think this new update is getting detected as Win.Trojan.Generic-9907912-0. They might have added some code which might be a virus.

The system I use is kinda part of the office network. So They won't let me keep virus files in it. I been using steam for like 3 years without a problem, but today this virus report came up... And uninstalling steam is leading to stopping any games which I purchased from running.

I tried reinstalling steam, but the same thing is happening... I tried to get an old copy of steam that did not have a virus... But steam auto-updated it to this new version which is a virus file..... What to do... Where to contact steam support... I mean is there such customer support existing for steam?

It isn't a virus. It is a false positive. Hence literally no one else posting about it.

[[N]ebsun]

It could be a false positive, or it could be infected by a virus that is trying to spread by embedding itself into other executable files on your system. Is it actually in the steam install directory ? maybe you have a virus that is just named the same as steam.exe to try hide.

Do a virus scan with another scanner, and if there is any doubt, download a new version of the steam installer, and reinstall.

[mundhetriya62]

I just confirmed this with 3 of my friends and they are also receiving the same virus report for their steam.exe. is it still false positive, or are you guys just guessing?
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/752ac6ab6ec58c14bcbae0409ac732e4846a37838919806d1cf1b4cd19095f82

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Originally posted by mundhetriya62:

I just confirmed this with 3 of my friends and they are also receiving the same virus report for their steam.exe. is it still false positive, or are you guys just guessing?
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/752ac6ab6ec58c14bcbae0409ac732e4846a37838919806d1cf1b4cd19095f82

You know what just uninstall then you obviously aren't going to listen to anyone.

[mundhetriya62]

Also, virustotal.com scans a file with 70+ antiviruses.