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DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 7:02 pm
by JohnTrainHead
If a friend gives you a link to a site that starts as "http://captures-web" and ends with "screenshot.png", DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. If you do, a file will download and the link will be sent by you unintentionally to a bunch of people on steam. Not sure what else it does. I've seen the link posted with my account on profile pages of people who I am not even friends with on Steam. !*don-know!* I've seen the link all over Steam this afternoon. !*not-ok*! *!embar*!

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 7:23 pm
by mrennie
JohnTrainHead wrote:If a friend gives you a link to a site that starts as "http://captures-web" and ends with "screenshot.png", DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. If you do, a file will download and the link will be sent by you unintentionally to a bunch of people on steam. Not sure what else it does. I've seen the link posted with my account on profile pages of people who I am not even friends with on Steam. !*don-know!* I've seen the link all over Steam this afternoon. !*not-ok*! *!embar*!


Thanks for the heads-up ... unfortunately I think I might have clicked on it yesterday *!sad!* *!rolleyes!*

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 7:24 pm
by NSrailfan6130
Yes this TRUE, The link was sent to me by multiple people I don't know and it was sent to me by JohnTrainHead and he told me he didn't send it. DONT CLICK IT

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 7:28 pm
by NSrailfan6130
The comment or message will say Hi bro do you need it? after that is the link which I will not put in this comment for safety

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 8:59 pm
by JohnTrainHead
Apparently this scam is not new; I saw the link on someone's profile and it was posted back around the Winter Solstice. Now I've gotta get back to figuring out how to unlock my steam account. *!rolleyes!*

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:10 pm
by Chacal
I got the link in a Steam PM by JohnTrainHead, and BitDefender refused to allow me to go there.
I highly recommend BitDefender anti-malware.

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:38 am
by CSX2057
Yup I got that too from my profile. I deleted immediatly plus I notified on Facebook and my friends on twitch. I always like to keep them up to date.

CURSE YOU RUSSIANS HACKERS!!! !!bang!!

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:07 am
by imnew
Thanks for the heads-up.

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 9:02 am
by artimrj
Yep I got one from Johntrainhead too. Thanks John !*roll-laugh*!

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 9:27 am
by dejoh
I remember the days when a Trojan meant something else. !*YAAA*! !*YAAA*! !!howdy!!

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 11:16 am
by OldProf
dejoh wrote:I remember the days when a Trojan meant something else. !*YAAA*! !*YAAA*! !!howdy!!


You're thinking of "citizen of Troy", right?

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:19 pm
by NSrailfan6130
Yea JohnTrainHead I got another from you !*roll-laugh*!

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 5:11 pm
by NYWhiskey
I just got one from Arizonchris. It's spreading here, clean yourselves guys. !*roll-laugh*!

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 5:39 pm
by JohnTrainHead
How do I unlock my account? I've e-mailed Steam support and they haven't responded.

Re: DANGER: TROJAN ON STEAM

Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 11:51 pm
by Ericmopar
JohnTrainHead wrote:How do I unlock my account? I've e-mailed Steam support and they haven't responded.

Unlocked? Did they change your password?
If so try the Forgot password functions and see if that will get you back on.

I've gotten one of those messages so far, but I didn't open it.
I have no friends... *!twisted!*