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Steam for gaming

Discussion in 'General Software' started by Tony D, Mar 17, 2015.

  1. Tony D

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    Anyone heard of Steam for gaming? I have a computer that keeps getting re-directs. I've thrown a bunch of scanners at this machine and it's still getting re-directs. Wondering if this Steam application has anything to do with it.
     
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  4. Tony D

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    Yes - that's the application in question. Seems legitimate, but I haven't been able to stop the redirects. Looking at this because I'm not familiar with it. Could be it's just fine.
     
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    Hi Tony. Just been looking on the steam forum.
    One person fixed the redirect problem by Deleting the cookies (there were about a dozen) for store.steampowered.com fixed it.
     
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  6. Tony D

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    Thanks Dougie. I finally got it. I ran Junkware Removal Tool, AdwCleaner, RogueKiller, TDSSKiller, aswMBR, Malwarebytes AntiRootkit - all of which found threats except aswMBR. Redirects persisted. Turned off unfamiliar items in msconfig. Was unable to run ESET on-line scanner because of the redirects. Ran it in Safe Mode with Networking. It found issues. Problem persisted. Finally MalwareBytes AntiMalware fixed the problem. Yeah!
     
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    That's great, Tony. When you said you run a bunch of scanners and found nothing, I was looking else where.
     
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    My son has a couple of games that run on steam, and I've never had a problem with it affecting Windows, personally I've never liked it, it was a supposed solution to game compatibility across different versions of Windows, Glad you solved your issue just thought I'd chip in with a little info on steam.
     
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    Thanks for chiming in. This is the first I've seen Steam.
     
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    Never mind the games, this is the best sort of steam Tony.

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    Steam is Legit. It is a game service.
     
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    Just to pile on Steam is a widely used gaming source and not known for any real issues Tony!
     
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