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Post by Retro on Jul 14, 2010 1:47:53 GMT
I know this isn't the largest site full of Valve game players. But for any of you who play Left 4 Dead/2, Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2 or any other Valve styled/sourced games....don't visit FPSBanana.com for the time being.
It's virus ridden, got infected. Even just loading the site can infect your computer. The Valve community is really throwing on the warning for this one.
Again, I know thats not a huge audience here, but it's worth the mention.
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Post by Alex on Jul 14, 2010 2:01:53 GMT
What is it when it's not killing your computer?
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Post by Warped‽‽‽ on Jul 14, 2010 3:05:27 GMT
I got this warning through some steam community earlier. It's an FPS community content website or something.
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Post by Retro on Jul 14, 2010 9:54:00 GMT
FPSBanana is the central website for downloading community map maps, skins, mods and sprays. It's widely used by the L4D/2 and TF2 communities.
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Post by Ringo (2015 Edition) on Jul 14, 2010 10:48:06 GMT
I'll have to remember that then....I just got access to Steam. Having no space on my drive for it, had to install it in my E: drive, as it needed 50,000 GB of space in an empty folder. Not that I play horror style FPS games, but Left 4 Dead 2 sounds brill. Have to check it out when these viruses are killed off.
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Post by madhair60 on Jul 14, 2010 10:54:23 GMT
(Steam) needed 50,000 GB of space in an empty folder  |
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Post by Warped‽‽‽ on Jul 14, 2010 13:15:08 GMT
I'll have to remember that then....I just got access to Steam. Having no space on my drive for it, had to install it in my E: drive, as it needed 50,000 GB of space in an empty folder. Not that I play horror style FPS games, but Left 4 Dead 2 sounds brill. Have to check it out when these viruses are killed off. Mmm-kay. Having access to Steam won't mean these viruses suddenly jump-ship to your PC. There might be a few infected servers, potentially? But I'm not sure about that. I know a few TF2 servers went down to update last night, whether it was virus related as well I have no idea. Aaaaaaaaaaand I'm assuming your Steam taking up 50,000GB is a typo. A massive, super-duper typo. If not, I would uninstall Steam, sounds like a virus. Oh, and can I have your hard drive after too? |
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Post by Rory. on Jul 14, 2010 14:47:35 GMT
...I have steam...my computer has 20GB free on it currently...
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wat.
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Post by Mark on Jul 14, 2010 14:52:53 GMT
I'm a mac, so probably less at risk.
But nothing's come up on my virus scanner, so I think I'm alrightish.
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Post by Retro on Jul 14, 2010 17:32:18 GMT
I'll have to remember that then....I just got access to Steam. Having no space on my drive for it, had to install it in my E: drive, as it needed 50,000 GB of space in an empty folder. Not that I play horror style FPS games, but Left 4 Dead 2 sounds brill. Have to check it out when these viruses are killed off. The virus is on the website FPSBanana. Not Steam. Not servers. Just that website you get the stuff from. It's not transferred via files, it comes from one of their adverts being malicious. Steam is actually a very small program, doesn't even use 1 GB and runs on almost any computer. It's just a browser and launch hub. I don't get why people seem to keep thinking it has huge specs. You could get it and use it to play retro games on. Really, I'm at a loss to find a reason why people shouldn't have Steam. Even as a PC gaming hub is massively beneficial for being free. It's like not having another browser than IE. Finally, if you're looking for horror in L4D, you won't find it. It has it's moments when tons of enemies spawn suddenly, but it's not really a horror game. |
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Post by Warped‽‽‽ on Jul 14, 2010 17:54:36 GMT
I'll say that Steam is generally pretty good. Well, better than that.
But every so often it does have a hissy fit and just continually freeze at you for awhile, then carry on, then freeze again, then carry on, then freeze... etc. Y'know it's bearable since it's so useful as essentially the 'Facebook of gaming' if you will.
However when it used to open on startup and slow everything down to a crawl, that is annoying. Checking the option to disable it opening at startup didn't work either, I had to go to services.msc and tell it to open when I told it to. And only when I told it to. (But maybe they've fixed that now, was a long time ago when I first got Steam)
Anyway, my point is if I wasn't someone who was that tech-savvy and didn't play games all that much, then all Steam would do is piss me off when I'm not using it.
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Post by Nam on Jul 14, 2010 20:00:46 GMT
However when it used to open on startup and slow everything down to a crawl, that is annoying. Checking the option to disable it opening at startup didn't work either, I had to go to services.msc and tell it to open when I told it to. And only when I told it to. (But maybe they've fixed that now, was a long time ago when I first got Steam) I don't think Steam does that anymore. It doesn't do it on this machine, never has, and this machine has never once needed MSconfig opened on it. And ehh, Steam's alright if you like the games it has on it. If you're a fan of PC gaming it's essential, if not, you can get most of it for consoles in my experience, but I've no idea what Steam's full library is, so I'm probably wrong. I wouldn't say anybody needs or should have steam, unless they are a PC gamer. I get little to no use out of it myself TBH. |
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