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Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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1200 different Steam Stealer malware samples discovered.
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
Russian mentality, get one up on anyone no matter the consequences. It really boggles the mind how in CS:GO players in UK have to connect to Luxembourg servers which are also host to Russian players who are predominantly the cheaters. Why don't they have Western Europe exclusive servers and Russian exclusive servers and the can 'go play with themselves.'
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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go4brendon
Russian mentality, get one up on anyone no matter the consequences. It really boggles the mind how in CS:GO players in UK have to connect to Luxembourg servers which are also host to Russian players who are predominantly the cheaters. Why don't they have Western Europe exclusive servers and Russian exclusive servers and the can 'go play with themselves.'
Kaspersky Labs is Russian.
PS,I like your xenophobic generalisation of Russians.
"Their mentality" in their case using your metric OFC is no different than Western Europe has done over the last few 100 years - even going to the extent of enslaving and destroying cultures for spices so they could get one up on each other.
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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CAT-THE-FIFTH
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Originally Posted by
go4brendon
Russian mentality, get one up on anyone no matter the consequences. It really boggles the mind how in CS:GO players in UK have to connect to Luxembourg servers which are also host to Russian players who are predominantly the cheaters. Why don't they have Western Europe exclusive servers and Russian exclusive servers and the can 'go play with themselves.'
Kaspersky Labs is Russian.
PS,I like your xenophobic generalisation of Russians.
"Their mentality" in their case using your metric OFC is no different than Western Europe has done over the last few 100 years - even going to the extent of enslaving and destroying cultures for spices so they could get one up on each other.
Let's leave the colonialism and postcolonial discussions aside. This is a tech site. We're talking about Steam and internet piracy, so lets stick to that heading.
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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Luke7
Let's leave the colonialism and postcolonial discussions aside. This is a tech site. We're talking about Steam and internet piracy, so lets stick to that heading.
Exactly and that's why somewhat xenophobic generalisations need to be countered. None of the powerful and rich countries in the world got there by being nice to anyone.
You could argue "the get one up mentality" is no different than all the posers here in Blighty who want to show off on social media that they are Keeping up with the Joneses,or capitalists screwing over the little guy just so then they can "get one dollar/pound/euro more up" on their mate.
Last time I checked cheating was not the preserve of Russian players,otherwise none of the US only servers in games would have anti-cheating stuff active.
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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Originally Posted by
go4brendon
Russian players who are predominantly the cheaters.
Wrong.
A recent post on the CS:GO sub reddit showed that the majority of cheaters (caught) as of Feb this year, were from the USA, by 3 / 4% - cant link to the thread as I am in work. Just because someone is better than you, or you have a bad game, does not mean they are cheating
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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Originally Posted by
Luke7
Let's leave the colonialism and postcolonial discussions aside. This is a tech site. We're talking about Steam and internet piracy, so lets stick to that heading.
That's one of the great things about Hexus though, while it may be a "tech site" they allow and encourage healthy debate / discussions..
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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Disturbedguy
Wrong.
A recent post on the CS:GO sub reddit showed that the majority of cheaters (caught) as of Feb this year, were from the USA, by 3 / 4% - cant link to the thread as I am in work. Just because someone is better than you, or you have a bad game, does not mean they are cheating
Worldwide maybe....but on our Euro servers?
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
So, the only way I can get hacked like this is if I open a phishing email/visit a dodgy site and actively allow the thing onto my system?
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Disturbedguy
Just because someone is better than you, or you have a bad game, does not mean they are cheating
Lies, LIES!!!!!!!!
The only way to beat me is precisely by hax and cheatz, for I am awesomenauts, I haz skillz and pwns you, Noobz, innit...! :p
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
Best anti virus is still your brain :P
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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Disturbedguy
Wrong.
A recent post on the CS:GO sub reddit showed that the majority of cheaters (caught) as of Feb this year, were from the USA, by 3 / 4% - cant link to the thread as I am in work. Just because someone is better than you, or you have a bad game, does not mean they are cheating
Was this accounting for relative CS:GO playing population sizes, or just counting the number of banned accounts?
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
This has been going for 10 years, i don't see how installing mobile auth would change anything. If someone is so stupid to give all details (be it phishing or just stupidity), they still will. What I hate about all this is that there is no way to tell steam NOT to use these idiot proof systems. I really don't care about any of the crapware and mobile auth apps, the steam guard is good enough for me yet steam seems to think 15 days to trade my wife a different sniper rifle skin is reasonable...lol
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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aniilv
the steam guard is good enough for me yet steam seems to think 15 days to trade my wife a different sniper rifle skin is reasonable...lol
I agree, Steam guard is pretty good.
As for the trade... let me get this straight you want a rifle skin and you are prepared to trade your wife for it? Is she a good cook? ;)
Joke...
I guess Steam should allow you to identify family players and trade more quickly with them.
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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Vorlon99
I guess Steam should allow you to identify family players and trade more quickly with them.
That would inevitably lead to some people claiming that they are family players when that isn't the case, then complaining about it when it all goes wrong despite any potential disclaimers agreed to as a result.
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Output
That would inevitably lead to some people claiming that they are family players when that isn't the case, then complaining about it when it all goes wrong despite any potential disclaimers agreed to as a result.
True, there will always be abusers and dodgers :)
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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Ttaskmaster
Lies, LIES!!!!!!!!
The only way to beat me is precisely by hax and cheatz, for I am awesomenauts, I haz skillz and pwns you, Noobz, innit...! :p
Think I just found my next signature block - thanks! :bowdown:
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Worms
Best anti virus is still your brain :P
Dot mine, cos I've got a tewibble code id de node ad de momend. :ill:
(seriously ... I'm totally bunged up and running out of hankies, be moving onto "Greensleeves" by nightfall.)
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Vorlon99
I guess Steam should allow you to identify family players and trade more quickly with them.
That would inevitably lead to some people claiming that they are family players when that isn't the case, then complaining about it when it all goes wrong despite any potential disclaimers agreed to as a result.
I'm sure there's a way that they could arrange this - maybe even take a "circles" idea from Google+, so "family" can be instant trades, "friends" need 24 hours, "aquaintances" are 3-4 days and "the world" is a week or more? And it's the seller whose circles control the release times. Just my 2p worth and an off-the-cuff suggestion.
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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shaithis
Worldwide maybe....but on our Euro servers?
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Was this accounting for relative CS:GO playing population sizes, or just counting the number of banned accounts?
Both irrelevant. The original comment is essentially "all Russians cheat / Russians are the biggest cheaters" - whether someone cheats or not isn't based on servers.
The thread I saw (which I will attempt to find this evening) showed that the USA had the highest number of banned, cheating accounts.
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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Disturbedguy
Both irrelevant. The original comment is essentially "all Russians cheat / Russians are the biggest cheaters" - whether someone cheats or not isn't based on servers.
No, but the visibility of cheaters is SOLELY linked to the servers you play on. Hence, FAR from irrelevant if someone is basing their statement on their own experiences.
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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shaithis
No, but the visibility of cheaters is SOLELY linked to the servers you play on. Hence, FAR from irrelevant if someone is basing their statement on their own experiences.
It wasn't based on someones own experience, it was globally...which is the point the original poster was trying to make / claim, so it was still someone irrelevant...
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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Ttaskmaster
So, the only way I can get hacked like this is if I open a phishing email/visit a dodgy site and actively allow the thing onto my system?
Lies, LIES!!!!!!!!
The only way to beat me is precisely by hax and cheatz, for I am awesomenauts, I haz skillz and pwns you, Noobz, innit...! :p
I'm sure that there are definitely more hackers as I get older..... definitely not my eyes.... or my reflexes.... or my tolerance for the few beers I tend to have at the same time.... Haxxzorz for sure.
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
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Disturbedguy
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go4brendon
Russian players who are predominantly the cheaters.
Wrong.
A recent post on the CS:GO sub reddit showed that the majority of cheaters (caught) as of Feb this year, were from the USA, by 3 / 4% - cant link to the thread as I am in work. Just because someone is better than you, or you have a bad game, does not mean they are cheating
Just ask the Olympic association if they cheat?
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
It's not Xenophobic to blame the very people who are reported to be the guilty party, we should cut Russia of the web, like North Korea. Just cut all the cables.
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
You'd start WW3 over a few hackers in CS:GO? Russia also has the capability to cut important undersea cables, which north korea lacks, and would inconvenience the internet browsing of western users, and we haven't cut north korea from the web - the NK government simply doesn't allow most citizens to connect to it.
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Re: Steam Stealer malware begins to proliferate says Kaspersky Labs
That trading thing delay used to annoy me to hell, but I kinda get it. Was a problem when getting a new PC.
Also some suspicion is always healthy whenever you get an email from any company you deal with (and has your money or access to your money).
