Hard drive virus?

Sounds like a load of bull to me.

Yeah, someone just sent me it too, have no idea why this BS going around.

Don't worry, if you copy and paste this message into 10 different threads the magical steam fairy will protect your computer from the evils of the internet.

It's been going on for a while apparently. There's a steam group, and some threads from 2011.

Oh and it's not something you should worry about.

Chain letter is cool. I guess.

Can confirm, I was virus.

It happened to me. I was unfortunate enough to have someone on my list who had the virus and I was immediately infected. My harddrive short circuited and all of my components exploded. It's a nasty one.

EDIT: Ha ha

It has been around for more than two years. If it was real, I'm sure Valve would have made efforts by now to solve the exploit used.

Nothing can happen to your PC by just accepting a friend request. Steam simply doesn't have any function that they could exploit that way through accepting a request.

Ok cool, thanks guys. Deleting this then.