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Revelation34 posted...

adjl posted...

I have both Steam and a virus scanner active, and I don't recall Steam doing any searching for installed software the last time I installed it. You would lose that bet.

It "does" but it's only when you install a game and it just installs visual basic packs.

Oh, that. That's to be expected. Any installer does that. I was thinking he meant during the installation of Steam itself.

DPsx7 posted...

You don't recall is not proof it doesn't happen. I say nearby during the install. I saw it.

I most recently installed Steam after replacing my laptop's hard drive last fall. You have pointedly avoided Steam entirely for over a decade. If you want to act like your memory on this matter is more credible than mine, you're gonna need some kind of concrete proof to offset that time difference.

DPsx7 posted...

Now we're getting somewhere. Steam was broken. HL2 looked normal before one of the several times it was blocked. A forced update then broke the game. Why did I need this update? Because level 2 of the virus was installed.

"Level 2 of the virus"? Are you listening to yourself? You downloaded a bugged patch. It happens (albeit much less frequently these days as PC hardware configurations are less widely varied than they were a decade ago). You either roll it back to a previous installation or you wait for a new patch to fix it (reporting your issue if you want it fixed faster). A clean install would also likely have fixed the problem. Instead, you decided to fall back on what seems to be an understanding of computers that you learned from your grandmother's cat and deleted everything.

DPsx7 posted...

The message was sent a while ago. It wasn't 'please update'. Instead they sent 'we've started tampering'. Wanna say it was a phone number or something was changed.

Without seeing the actual email and going entirely by your vague, paranoid ramblings, the only possible explanation I can come up with for what you're describing would be that your account has been compromised and somebody changed your information, and they wanted to verify that it was you. The email would have pretty clearly stated that intent, so I'm not sure how you could miss that, but you haven't exactly demonstrated a solid understanding of how these things work, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

DPsx7 posted...

Malware does like to collect data you know.

Malware doesn't send you an email asking you to reinstall and log in to the malware so you can update your data. You really don't actually know what malware is, do you?
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