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Geek Culture / Steam Virus in disguise - BEWARE!!!!

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Lover of games
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 04:36
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Quote: " Mudoskihobo: Dex: LISTEN if someone by the name of (Ashley Marc James) wants to add you to their list don't accept it. It is a virus. Tell everyone on your list because if somebody on your list adds him or her you will get it too. It is a hard drive killer and a very horrible virus. Please pass this on to everyone on your list. We need to find out who is using this account"' - from dark gunner"


as you can tell from the abose text, there's a virus going around in the shape of a screen name on steam, if you add this to your friends list, everyone on ur list will get it also, DO NOT accept a friend request from this virus, tell all your friends, co-workers, puppies, cats, birds, fleas, ect.....Ok, sorry about that.....anyways, this is serious HEAD MY WARNING

"Originally I was going to have a BS on it but you know how that would be. I can't walk around with the letters BS on me." More or less a qoute by Syndrome from Jack, Jack, attack
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MIDN90
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 04:44
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What if I add them to my friends list?

Head your warning? No thanks, I'm fine.

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Lover of games
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 04:50
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Quote: "What if I add them to my friends list? "


then all your friends will get it and have their hard drives erased, but don't head my warning, i don't care....Not to start a fight or something i'm just saying that it's just wise to be causcious

"Originally I was going to have a BS on it but you know how that would be. I can't walk around with the letters BS on me." More or less a qoute by Syndrome from Jack, Jack, attack
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MIDN90
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If you add me, you'll unlock Left 4 Dead 2... That's how awesome my account is.

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AndrewT
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 05:28 Edited at: 1st Sep 2009 05:28
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Quote: "if you add this to your friends list, everyone on ur list will get it also"


Wouldn't that mean that, by extension, almost everybody on Steam would have it? You say it attacks everyone on your friends list, and surely everyone on your friends list has at least on friend on theirs that isn't one yours, so it would spread to your friends, then their friends, then their friends, etc.?

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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 05:58
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@AndrewT:

Basically. This could just be a hoax or something but it's always good to be alert and watchful of these things.

"Originally I was going to have a BS on it but you know how that would be. I can't walk around with the letters BS on me." More or less a qoute by Syndrome from Jack, Jack, attack
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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 09:09
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Does this horrible virus have a name? Or is it just make believe so far?

Valve would not allow this AIDS to spread.

It's not even possible through steam I don't think. There's no file transfer, just text.

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prasoc
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 12:32
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Bah. I bet its either:

a) That is someones friend-turned-enemy and they want to get back on him

b) The guy's HDD crashed coincidentally around the time he accepted this unknown person.


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Silvester
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 16:48
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Funny story, just a screen name can't crash your PC You'd have to download some sort of an application and run for that to happen and for it to erease your Hard disk... Just a screen name on a buddy list can't do this.

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Shaun Of The Dead
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 17:11
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Yeah, Its just someone playing a trick on you. Adding someone as a friend cant cause any harm unless your friend gets your information (Only if you give it) So, dont be worried. XD

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 17:13
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You could be sent a malformed packet that performs a buffer overflow or something.

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Mahoney
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 18:35
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NeX is right. It is possible, but Valve would patch Steam in a heartbeat to stop it.

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David R
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 18:36 Edited at: 1st Sep 2009 18:37
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This is a blatant chain mail/IM chain and there's a 99% chance it has no factual basis what-so-ever

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Silvester
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 19:00
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Quote: "You could be sent a malformed packet that performs a buffer overflow or something."

That however wouldn't erease your hard drive, but merely crash Steam.

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David R
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 19:15
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Not to mention the fact you can't erase your hard drive whilst it's locked for use

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lazerus
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Noo its a signal of attack form of the monkeys from Marsss

scare tactics?

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 20:29
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Quote: "That however wouldn't erease your hard drive, but merely crash Steam"


Not so. A buffer overflow is the basis of many security flaws. If a buffer is expected to be a certain size and a pre-allocated array is used to store it, when the data is copied into the array the excess will flood into what lays beyond, usually the code for interacting with the buffer. Replace that with some DLL calls to download and execute an exe and you're away!

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heyufool1
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Posted: 1st Sep 2009 22:11
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Quote: "Not so. A buffer overflow is the basis of many security flaws. If a buffer is expected to be a certain size and a pre-allocated array is used to store it, when the data is copied into the array the excess will flood into what lays beyond, usually the code for interacting with the buffer. Replace that with some DLL calls to download and execute an exe and you're away!"

I hope you use your knowledge for good and not evil lol

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Dark Dragon
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2009 17:32
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Quote: "Steam Virus in disguise - BEWARE!!!!"

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Silvester
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2009 19:03
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Quote: "Not so. A buffer overflow is the basis of many security flaws. If a buffer is expected to be a certain size and a pre-allocated array is used to store it, when the data is copied into the array the excess will flood into what lays beyond, usually the code for interacting with the buffer. Replace that with some DLL calls to download and execute an exe and you're away!"


I stand corrected, however I highly doubt anyone would do such a thing... Unless they're really bored and have too much time on their hands.

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Posted: 2nd Sep 2009 21:50
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Quote: "Unless they're really bored and have too much time on their hands."

Isn't that all virus makers? lol

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