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*Steam Chat is spreading Malware to your systems*

*Posted By: Praveen Kashyap
<http://www.hackersnewsbulletin.com/author/hnbulletin>* | Posted in: News
<http://www.hackersnewsbulletin.com/category/news> Safety Tips
<http://www.hackersnewsbulletin.com/category/safety-tips> | Time Posted:
January 6, 2015

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Now-a-Days most of the online awareness on Internet security is about to
inform you that, Never click any of the suspicious link from strangers, but
if any link comes from your best friend, then will you think about to click
on that link?

Like the above example, a popular PC gaming platform Steam is infected with
a Malware, which is infecting its users systems with that and then the
installed malware is infecting user’s friend systems.

Well, this is called the emotional hack :)

According to the security expert Graham Cluley, who first discovered this
malware in the chat system of the Steam Gaming Platform, the malware only
affect your close one(friend list,) which will automatically send link to
your friend.

*What actually the link contains?*

In case you receive a message on Steam that exactly reads* “WTF?????”* and
links to a JPEG image called screenshot, so it is all clear that this is a
Malware, and immediately you should contact that friend from whom you got
the message to tell about this malware and ask him/her to run a virus scan
onto system.

The Malicious link leads not to a strange picture, but rather to an
executable SCR file.

Once you clicked the link, the file will be downloaded and installed
automatically. The downloaded file targets Steam, means it may be able to
steal your login and financial information.

As already said above, this malware then, send that malicious link to your
friends list.

*Shocking:*

You will be shocked that half of the antivirus programs are not capable to
detect that malware, below are some of the antiviruses which are able to
detect the malware:

   - AVG
   - Malwarebytes
   - Kaspersky
   - Sophos
   - Symantec

But some of the famous antiviruses are there which are not detecting that
WTF Malware, like Microsoft, TrendMicro, Kingsoft or AegisLab. I suggest
you to use the free version of AVG or Malwarebytes and run it with extreme
prejudice.

All is clear now for the Steam users, so beware of the message containing
WTF?????




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