Since most of my Steam friends are members of the Empires community I decided to post this here instead of speaking to all my friends individually. Recently my Steam account has been hijacked and my account was disabled by Steam Administrators. I went through the steps to re-enable my account and it was successful. When my account was hijacked you may have received a message telling you to join a fake group which seemed to be related to hacking of some sort. Trickster is one of them that I know for sure. I am sorry for any annoyance this caused you. Hopefully this won't happen again. On a side note; what can happen if your e-mail is unverified? My e-mail has been unverified since this incident. I have verified it now but I am wondering if that could have been the reason they go my password? Or it may have been a key-logger which my Internet security has not found. If you have any good scanners that detect key-loggers that are free that would be excellent.
Don't know special tools to search for key loggers. But every antivirus software should search for them. Also try antivirus software on a bootable ISO image. But else reinstalling the complete system is the only secure way to get rid of viruses. (Although some very resident viruses are existing. They install themselves into the memory of graphics cards, network cards, sound cards or into the BIOS).
Trickster's account already got hacked like 5 times, i'm sure he is smar... oh wait... consider him hacked already! :p @vlamnire As SIP said, only a reinstall of Windows will make sure there is no trojan left. I recommend that, especially if you don't know how you lost your account. If you don't want to reinstall, check your HD with ALL of these: 1) Stinger - anti-trojan tool 2) AVG - free anti-vir 3) Malewarebytes' Anti-Malware Verifying your e-mail just means that steam sends you a confirmation mail and the e-mail address can only be changed, if you have access to the e-mail. You should do this!
It only got hacked twice, neither of which was the fault of me clicking some stupid link. The latter however was the fault of me disabling windows firewall (my only firewall) because it was being homo. Personally, I use Spybot S&D and Avira. Also, always make sure your email account uses a different password to your steam account, and, if you get hacked, don't log onto your email account from that computer anymore. Personally though, I'd just reformat.
Spyware and virus cleaners.... don't really stop you from being haxored, do they? Although thumbs up for spybot
Or, just use gmail, check the logs to make sure only you are accessing the account, and stop visiting dodgy sites.
http://www.surfright.nl/nl/hitmanpro/ You can use this for 30 days free of charge,,, I bought it since its one of the best antivirus programs I know and it is extremely cheap.
I frequently use Malware Bytes. It's one of my favorite anti-malware applications; I'm downloading Stinger now too.
online scanners: http://www.eset.com/online-scanner http://home.mcafee.com/Downloads/FreeScan.aspx http://security.symantec.com http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ antivirus: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus http://free.avg.com/ww-en/download-free-antivirus.tpl-crp These are what I use when there appears to be something in my PC that doesn't belong there. ESET NOD32 antivirus (not the online scanner) works too but I didn't list it since it's not actually free. However you can keep it updated simply by googling for "nod32 username and password".
dude. I got message spams of someone trying to recover lost passwords of my account. the spams weere of the secret questions, which means they were actively succeeding in getting through Valve's security bullshit that doesn't involve my email. So thanks. No harm done though.
