Steam Isn't Secure

AkalamanaiaAkalamanaia Join Date: 2003-01-04 Member: 11833Members
in NS General Discussion
<div class="IPBDescription">Cdkey hacks</div> Last night my firewall reported a breach caused by Steam, i quitted steam. Restarted Steam and my cdkey was gone and Steam wanted me to reinsert it. steam isn't totally secure yeat...
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  • uranium_235uranium_235 Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9478Banned
    It ate your CD? I'm confused...
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  • sawcesawce Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10787Members
    edited October 2003
    So this means that somebody haxed your steam and stole your cd key?

    Sounds like a bug to me. At least your steam.exe didnt completely vanish twice like what happened to me a few weeks ago.

    <b>Edit:</b> By "Sounds like a bug to me." I mean it simply sounds like steam just forgot your cd key.
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  • AkalamanaiaAkalamanaia Join Date: 2003-01-04 Member: 11833Members
    Yup someone hacked my steam, stole cdkey.
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  • RaVeRaVe Join Date: 2003-06-20 Member: 17538Members
    Luckily you already have registered your CDKey to your current email account, so they will have a bit of trouble getting in with YOUR CDKey

    But if they manage....then yeesh, damn....
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    I'd say it sounds more like a Steam glitch which killed your .INI file. That or someone getting into your registry. In either case, the pic 'Oh nos! My megahurtz are being stoeled!!11!' comes to mind, reading through this and immediately blaming it on a hacker.

    Does your firewall have any kind of logging capability for intrusion attempts? In either case, run a virus scan (http://housecall.antivirus.com) and run Windows Update to make sure you have all the latest security patchs (assuming Windows XP on that one).
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  • antifreezeantifreeze The guy with the goods&#33; Join Date: 2003-05-12 Member: 16232Members, Constellation
    I r t3h x4x0r, i munched joor CD key.

    No really. If the firewall detected a breach it isnt doing it job. Firewalls are designed to stop access to unassigned programs and whatever else, not just detect them. And if in the remoteist chance your cd key has actually been stoln, first i will laugh at valve, then i will think wait, your registered so HA they cant do nuthing with it.
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  • Rush_Of_PeonsRush_Of_Peons Join Date: 2003-02-19 Member: 13728Members
    heh i laugh at this, i stil dont need strea mover here. Admins got **** off with it so havent implemented it , went back to cs 1.5 too although thats totally unrelated to ns ^^
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  • ShockehShockeh If a packet drops on the web and nobody&#39;s near to see it... Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9336NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    edited October 2003
    [EDIT]Ack. I just wrote a nice long post, only to realise Talesin effectively said exactly what I did.
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  • RyoOhkiRyoOhki Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12789Members
    edited October 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->At least your steam.exe didnt completely vanish twice like what happened to me a few weeks ago.
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    OMG! I wasn't the only one! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    <span style='color:red'>*All right, this appears to have served its purpose for the moment. All it does at this time is toss dirt at Steam which already has enough coming at it through few faults of its own. No other program would get this much flak. Heck, WON didn't and it was FAR buggier than Steam for MONTHS. But not too many were around to experience that, so they just got a shiny, moderately well-working authentication system. Welcome to early-version software, folks. Editing to avoid bumping this, so it can fall gracefully off the front page. -Talesin*

    *LOCKED.*</span>
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