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So. Anyway, today I tried to sign in to a site to get some help.
But then I got blocked from doing this by fucking Sucuri. A firewall/defense program I never heard of before.
And as you can imagine, I got scared, and though it was malware. But I checked online, and seen that some others had similar issues with what I had, with this program just.......blocking some people for random reasons. Including the users of that site. And so I calmed the fuck down.
Did anyone ever had some similar issues?
Ok, here me out. I think there is some new malware risk, and that Steam may have some security issues, or even suffering an attack. See, I had decided to do some scans, and seen some worring signs. The files where, to my surprise, among the proton files I downloded from Steam. As in, downloded officially.
To be sure it was not a false positive, I looked through VirusTotal to be sure.
And then I found this. The file was scanned by numerous security vendors, and 22 out of the 73 vendors discovered a trojan. And among those vendors, where included Avast, Avira, ClamAV, Google, McAfee and Microsoft. This was bad, so I deleted it, and deleted the proton programs(and many other things from Steam, JUST TO BE SURE).
And I am not the only one who had seen this. I found two recent cases of people talking about similar cases on both GitHub, and on the the Steam Community.
Now, I dont want to accuse Steam and Valve of anything. They are likely victims of this.
But I post this, to spread some awarness, so Valve can fix this issue, if there is any, and not just a bunch of false positives.