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Wert456

Hey guys long time no see! I was away from steam due to school but I'm back now! so anyway, I was chillin with Gordon Freeman(read: playing half life 2) the other day when this guy messages me. it goes like this:(names changed)

Saturday, November 22, 2014

freaking weirdo: Hello sir i have good offer for you. I offer my Dragonclaw hook for your item. check my SS and offer me )
check my offer at screenshot removed

Wert568: what is a dragocant you post the image here?

so when I try to click the link instead of saving as an image it saves as a screensaver file. I didn't open it and I just went back to shooting some combines. when I came back to my pc in the morning after my virus scanner(Malwarebytes) did its rounds, it detected said screensaver file as a virus. Has anything like this happened to you guys?

9 years ago*

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CarlEric

O rlly?

9 years ago
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Bombspecialist

Goes to show, don't trust strangers.

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CarlEric

Remove the link...

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MartDrummer

Please remove the link.

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Avenarr

Yeah, that's the png steam-account-hijacking virus/scam that have been going around lately. i'd change my password, just in case, and like everyone else here is saying, remove the link from your post, so others don't click it accidentally.

9 years ago
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makromatee

Nice try!!!

9 years ago
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Suldok

It's getting very common lately.

Never click any links from your friends (especially strangers) if you don't know what it is.

If it ever starts to download .bat, .scr file then it's most likely a virus.

Also please remove the link to the image, other people might click it and accidentally get the virus.

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Suits

are you seriously linking it there?

9 years ago
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ArmadX

Remove the link, and remove the username, they're both against the rules here

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Wert456

That's not his real name. I changed it

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ArmadX

Ah ok I apologise then :)

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Wert456

whoops, I forgot to remove it. Sorry.

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ArmadX

Remove the username too, no calling out here

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Wert456

Thats not his name

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pentaerythritol

Yep, it's happened to me a few times. It's a steam hijacker virus, as usual, don't click strange links from people you don't know.

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