Post: Just a reminder to not click everything people send you
10-02-2014, 10:30 AM #1
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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Today someone on my friend's list sent me a link saying hey look at my knife. I have no idea what that meant but that's another thing. The link looked pretty obvious that it was a virus download so I clicked it and sure enough it wanted to download a file. Well I canceled out of that and did some poking around on the domain and sure enough they are taking steam account information. The weird thing is the person who wrote this up logs whenever something uploads to his server. So there is a text file on there that has the links to download this stuff.

Basically this is a program that's masked as a screen saver installer (.scr). When you run it it grabs the following:

Config Folder
2x ssfn files

I am assuming they just drop these in the steam directory and as long as the account does not have steam guard, they are able to login? I am not entirely sure about that but if they couldn't then I don't see the purpose in stealing these files.
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10-02-2014, 12:24 PM #2
Toke
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Originally posted by 1UP View Post
Today someone on my friend's list sent me a link saying hey look at my knife. I have no idea what that meant but that's another thing. The link looked pretty obvious that it was a virus download so I clicked it and sure enough it wanted to download a file. Well I canceled out of that and did some poking around on the domain and sure enough they are taking steam account information. The weird thing is the person who wrote this up logs whenever something uploads to his server. So there is a text file on there that has the links to download this stuff.

Basically this is a program that's masked as a screen saver installer (.scr). When you run it it grabs the following:

Config Folder
2x ssfn files

I am assuming they just drop these in the steam directory and as long as the account does not have steam guard, they are able to login? I am not entirely sure about that but if they couldn't then I don't see the purpose in stealing these files.


Steam is basically the same as the Internet don't click a random link that looks suspicious in any way :p thanks for the heads up
10-02-2014, 12:56 PM #3
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Originally posted by Toke View Post
Steam is basically the same as the Internet don't click a random link that looks suspicious in any way :p thanks for the heads up

Well I'd say it's pretty common sense except:
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People are falling for it
10-02-2014, 01:59 PM #4
Toke
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Originally posted by 1UP View Post
Well I'd say it's pretty common sense except:
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People are falling for it


People are dumb? And couldn't you see what account its dumping into or is it just a keyloggers and they do it manually?
10-02-2014, 06:35 PM #5
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Originally posted by Toke View Post
People are dumb? And couldn't you see what account its dumping into or is it just a keyloggers and they do it manually?


Yea if you go through the files you could figure out who it is.
10-05-2014, 09:39 PM #6
Originally posted by 1UP View Post
Today someone on my friend's list sent me a link saying hey look at my knife. I have no idea what that meant but that's another thing. The link looked pretty obvious that it was a virus download so I clicked it and sure enough it wanted to download a file. Well I canceled out of that and did some poking around on the domain and sure enough they are taking steam account information. The weird thing is the person who wrote this up logs whenever something uploads to his server. So there is a text file on there that has the links to download this stuff.

Basically this is a program that's masked as a screen saver installer (.scr). When you run it it grabs the following:

Config Folder
2x ssfn files

I am assuming they just drop these in the steam directory and as long as the account does not have steam guard, they are able to login? I am not entirely sure about that but if they couldn't then I don't see the purpose in stealing these files.


Oh dang thanks for the heads up. I normally dont click any links but thank you for the heads up :yes:

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