Valve caught sneaking viruses
>program allows user generated content>people download user generated content with viruses>wtf valve gave me malware?!Also its because russians and hues use wallpaper engine for piracy by sending "animated wallpapers" which are entire movies/shows/whatever the fuck.
>>741450257Is Wallpaper Engine produced by Steam? If not, how is it Valve that are the ones "sneaking viruses"?
>>741450257Brown
>>741450661erm achstually... no one cares chud incel
Have to say that maybe I'm old but I don't see the point of buying some animated wallpaper thing. It was funny novelty thing like 20 years ago but realistically you basically never even see desktop so why would you buy it when it's free thing anyway. Not in pirate way just basic free feature that's been around for literally decades
The funniest part is that everyone is aware about this Epic paid constant anti-Steam raid
I assume the malware is in the wallpaper submissions. Which isn't surprising since you can literally upload .exes.
Never used it, so I'm good.
>>741451164Waste of processing power to pretend you're running some cyberpunk machine. They probably also have a transparent PC case covered in LED cables.
>>741450595The retardation of Gabe cum swallowers everybody.Valve has a responsibility to keep trash off their store. None of you would give any other company that had this happen a pass, and everybody knows it.
>>741451164Yeah, I don't really get it, especially since at least I never even see my wallpaper. It's always either browser or video game on it.
>>741451731The trash isn't on the store actually. You go into the user created content section and get user created content.Specifically this was infecting coomer wallpapers with chinese names that downloaded exes you had to run.This is the modern equivalent of someone downloading 'naked_lara_craft.jpg.png.avi.exe' in limewire and double clicking it.
>>741451164They're cool for putting an animated video up in the background. I use Rainmeter as a better way of watching my storage capacity or CPU temps.
>>741452183>You go into the user created content section and get user created content.which is on the steam store
>kaspersky>wallpaper engineNext on the news you can download viruses off limewire.
fat jew takes 30% cut and curates the content - hes not a platform under CDA protection - hes a publisher fully responsible for all the content
>>741450257Already deboonked
The animated/video wallpapers and pictures are fine. It's the application ones that can have malware snuck into them. Wallpaper Engine even fucking warns you when trying to run them.
>>741452596it's on steamcommunity which is separate from the store
>wasting resources on an animated wallpaper which stays hidden 24/7 because you're either running a game or an internet browseralso>not using rainmeter
>>741453152which you access through steam and is hosted by valve
>>741451731I'd rather valve keep community content around on the off chance it contains viruses than do away with it completely under the guise of "security".
>>741453175or just download linux so you don't have to bother with this bloatware shit.
>>741453294but ultimately... are not the store
>>741453382>steamie instantly starts with the persecution complexis it really too much to ask for valve to buy one yacht or one mansion less and hire actual goddamn moderators?
>>741452934If they're so risky they should never have allowed those types in the first place. They even admit themselves they're few and far between in the first place, so now their name is tarnished for nothing. Mind-bogglingly stupid business decision.
>>741451164It's basically used by the Chinese to bypass their porn bans. Those tens of thousands of wallpaper engine players you see on Steam are just Chinese dudes jacking off.
>>741450257hit piece after hit piecetiresome
>>741453542I don't think you know what persecution complex means...ESL?
>>741453175Dang I remember running rainmeter a long ass time ago
>>741453175I always wanted to see various metrics in 20 difference places
>>741453542>is it really too much to ask for valve to buy one yacht or one mansionI don't think valve has any, and I agree they should.
>>741451164I see my main desktop often enough and I like wallpapers with depth, so giving them some movement or effects adds to the comfy level.That said, I never use community wallpapers so these things aren't relevant to me. I have a massive art folder so I just find an image I like, do a little something in the effect editor and throw it on my desktop. I only change it like once a year.
>>741451731That's the free market. Don't like it? Use Epic Launcher or shut up.The nerve of some consumers.
What with the nonstop anti steam spam the past few days
>>741453589>used by the Chinese to bypass their porn bansOne of the infected ones even runs NTRaholic, of all things.
>>741452934>Only effects retards pirating Chinese malwareTHE SKY IS FALLING AIIIIEEE HELP ME GABE-SAMA!!!!
>>741453294Wtf bro I just googled, "how to download computer virus" and opened "bricksyourcomputer.exe" how could Google give me viruses like that?!?!
>trusting a russian malware scanner
timmy get back to actually work on your dogshit store ffs
>>741454336hey, they added a shopping cart. can valve say the same?
Reminder fatso will die of fat in your lifetime, Valve will be erased from existance and PC physical relases (that were still a thing 13 years ago not 150) will come back. Gamers will rejoyce.
>>741454197Shitposters incestuously poking the new sore spot of the average anon (incestuous cuz they take the stupidest points from the last thread to reapply on the next thread).The origin of it all is Gabe Newell deciding to use his millions on something that wasn't hardware for once.
This seems like a good thread to ask. I downloaded revo uninstaller today and checked it on virus total before installing it and it said it has malware> Is it just a false positive?
>>741454439I could do without performative plastic like consoles. DRM is what needs to die.
>>741453175Does rainmeter still drain your battery?I thought it was the bee's knees in high school, but it would slash my laptop's battery life in half.
OH MY HECKING SCIENCE I NEED TO GO PURCHASE THIS KASPERSKY SOFTWARE ASAP TO PROTECT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>741454420steam had carts for the past like 15 yearsyou don't actually buy games don't you
>>741450257>All the virus addled wallpaper is anime porn.lol, lmao even.
>>741453175why would anyone need useless shit like ram usage on desktop? want to impress your mom making her think you're le ebin hacker?
>>741450257>Kasperskywhat kind of absolute retard uses that shit
>dumb butt hurt Steamies are getting BTFO by Pirate Chads (PC) Gamers again!Know your place, Steamies!
>>741454858What should I use?
>>741454883Common Sense 2022 (newer versions use AI)
>>741450257reminder that Kaspersky is run by the Russian government and shouldn't be trusted.
>>741454935I use bit defender
>>741451731>Valve has a responsibility to keep trash off their store.And they do. Wallpaper Engine ITSELF isn't the malware, the malware vector comes from the content WITHIN Wallpaper Engine.This is like blaming Google Play for an app that downloads Malware from a third party when the app itself has no malware (just a curl function that grabs malware if you point it at a malware url to curl from).And being fair to Valve: Google Play has WAYYYYYY more sketchy malware applications on their storefront despite their automatic scanning than Valve does on Steam.
>>741454475one flag is usually a false positive. and 5 seconds of googling shows that Wacatac specifically is usually a false positive as people have made programs with visual studio that randomly get it despite being 100% clean. you're fine.
>>741450257>"Steam Wallpaper Engine">this implies it's something Valve put out, when it's just more software on the storeCunt. Funny how often Valve's been getting hounded by everyone ever since Gaben spanked a Rothschild.Anyway,>China and Russia use Wallpaper Engine as a workaround past laws and firewalls for decades>some of the third world uses Wallpaper Engine as a workaround past laws and firewalls too>commonly use the service for cheeky shit like transferring files>barely anyone uses WE as actual wallpaper software>eventually someone uses the service as a way to trick people into downloading viruses>Valve gets blamed for itSometimes I wonder if Gabe's doing the yacht/mansion stuff to eventually just nope out of civilization and just go retire 1000 miles away from the nearest country.
>>741450257Who the fuck is Kaspersky?Why am I supposed to know every single Polish Kike like a trained dog?
>>741453175>Wasting CPU cycles on all that shitDo normies really?
>>741451731>Valve has a responsibility to keep trash off their store.and they did? >>741452934>>741455140formerly really trustworthy antivirus before it was taken over by the Russian government.
>>741450595Google app store is also filled with viruses. I do however want Steam to start going back to a stricter indie release guideline considering the amount of AI coded slop there is now.
>>741455167millenials used to
>>741455167I mean my wallpapers only take up less than 1% of my CPU so I don't feel like it's an issue lol.
How dangerous is it leaving these unpatched? I don't want to update my bios in case it kills my laptop.
>>741452934>Application type Wallpap--I'm going to stop Wallpaper Engine right there.WHAT THE FUCK is an "Application" Wallpaper. It's a FUCKING WALLPAPER. It should be in the following formats:-.png-.gif (if you're an animated weirdo)-.jpgTHAT. IS. IT. **WHY THE FUCK** is an .exe becoming a "wallpaper?"
>>741455236>I do however want Steam to start going back to a stricter indie release guidelinefuck no. it took decades for most indie devs to actually be able to release shit on steam. the most we should get is human verification from Valve that it's an actual game.
>>741450595Deepthroat the entire boot, tranny
>>741455305Read >>741452934
>>741451164Wallpaper Engine never should have been anything but open source freeware. The notion of paying for it is beyond laughable.
>>741450595People have been pirating porn games through it too lol.
Has Valve even made enough good games to warrant the constant glazing by fanboys?
>>741455330are you dumb? wallpaper engine is a program that lets you have animated wallpapers. they allow wallpapers in video and program formats.
>>741450661>I sold poisoned bread but its the farmer that harvested the grain's fault your honor!
>>741452934>Steam automatically deletes them from the hard diskThere you go :)
imagine how much power wallpaper engine has wasted across all its users
>>741455167ricers are the opposite of normalfagsAnd yes, they do. Check the ricer general in /g/
>>741455434
>>741455421I mean... that is a very good legal argument actually. It's not the baker's fault if the grain they got was poisoned unknowingly. It would literally be the fault of the person who poisoned it???
>>741455362No my post is unrelated to the OP thing. This just seems like a thread where people who know things about malware are hanging out.
>>741450257I'd rather belive to schizoid epsteined crook McAfee than to a motherfucking Ivan Kikesperski
Linuxgods we won again
>>741455410No, because the only good game that they made was Half-Life 2!
>>741455330.scr has existed for of three decades and is literally just an exe file
>>741450257Wait until gamers and journalists realize mod dll files are basically exes too.
>>741455330>-.gif (if you're an animated weirdo)You're insane. Gif was never meant to be a format for 1920x1080 or 4k animations.
>>741451731How goes your blatant smear campaign?
>>741455809>Gif was never meant to be a format for 1920x1080>he doesn't know.
>>741455890I know it's capable of it. It's just trash compared to better animated formats.Even moot, half a century ago allowed webm posting to replace gifs because of how inefficient that format is for even slightly higher res animations.
>>741455350>the most we should get is human verification from Valve that it's an actual game.Which they don't bother with, hence the NUMEROUS asset flips (possible malware vectors [if you want to be dishonest, most of them aren't going to be if we're being honest]), and abandoned shit that never takes off Early Access or delists themselves to stop sales from people that buy into their dead/paused developed titles.You (indies) can be pissed about "Steam Greenlight" all you want, but at least the system worked in that finished shit would release without "this title hasn't been updated in 6 years, are you sure you want to buy this 'Early Access' title? :(" notice on them.
>>741455419>and program formats.WHY. THE. FUCK. IS. AN. .EXE. A. FUCKING. ANIMATED. .GIF!?This isn't "stupid" this is a basic fucking question..EXE IS A FUCKING EXECUTABLE. IT'S IN THE GODDAMN NAME."Program/Application EXEcutable." **IT SHOULD NOT BE** a "wallpaper." That is not the filetypes purpose.WHY. THE. FUCK. is "Wallpaper Engine" using .exe/application files?Being generous, it should be using:-.mp4-.aviAnd other movie formats if .gif/animation image files are needed. It should NOT be using an application format.
I just get my wallpaper the old fashioned way: Google image search. What exactly is the purpose of Wallpaper Engine?
>>741450257>"Steam Wallpaper Engine"By the way, that "Steam Cyberpunk 2077" has been making numbers, eh? Congrats to Gabe for the recent "Steam Genshin Impact" launch! And who couldn't forget how he personally crafted and published "Steam Forza Horizon 6"! And right after his "Steam Claire Obscur: Expedition 33" won last year's GOTY too!
>>741456176Never used steam's wallpaper engine myself, but those exes probably have some kind of interaction and aren't just a video loop.The interaction might be to react to user input, like clicking them makes them do something, or maybe they read some system stats or get the weather from the internet like the ricer applets do.
>>741456176The legit application "wallpapers" are typically silly interact-able minigames like clicking on cute sheep that hop around your desktop or some shit. Those are in their own "Application" category that's filtered by default.
>>741450257I am using WE, am i fucked? Or am i fine if i didnt download any infected wallpapers?
>>741456438Ever heard of comcast's facebook?I'm more of an at&t's 4chan user myself.
I like Wallpaper Engine
>>741456438>>741456726heh
Wallpaper engine is just the chink porn and piracy platform.
>>741456176I assume the application wallpaper is some form of interactive background image, which in practice is a program that runs on boot and puts something on your desktop like those ancient interactive buddies, except here it's one big image.I can also immediately see why it's turned off by default; shit sounds taxing on the PC and god only knows what an executable program does outside your vision.
>>741456176>WHY. THE. FUCK. IS. AN. .EXE. A. FUCKING. ANIMATED. .GIF!?it's not???? the ones that are exes let you interact with the wallpaper, though you can also do that with scenes (proprietary wallpaper engine format) which are much more secure and they recommend people use that. exes are just an option.>>741456050yeah it's almost as if people could improve things.
>>741456720Were you a fucking moron and used an application wallpaper from some rando with a sketchy Chinese name? If not, you're fine.>>741452934Read the dev post.
>>741456176It should be using lua at most, the devs are just retarded.
>>741451731calm down timmy. just focus on attacking other storefronts like the little soicuck you are
>>741456720At any moment the wallpaper can be updated with malware
Can you make your smear campaigns a little less obvious next time?
>>741456720May I ask, what kind of retardation makes someone use a whole application to display wallpapers on your computer?
>>741457816That's just how it works. In windows, mac and most newbie friendly distros of linux, the wallpaper application comes preinstalled, but it's an application all the same.Some retards just want to do extra ricing that the default wallpaper app doesn't allow.
>>741457604They don't get paid for subtlety.
>trusting kaspersky of all things
>>741458351broken clock, etc.
STEAM IS FINALLY FINISHED. FUCK YES. HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.GABE WILL BE HOMELESS SOON. AHAHAHAHAHA YOU LOSE ALL OF YOUR GAMES
>>741452934Phew. Time to redownload my big titty hex maniac wallpapers.
>>741458461yeah, but it's not a clock, it's a pile of shit
>>741450257>wallpaper engineOnly retarded NPCs use dumb shit like this.>>741455140udnerageb&
>>741451731based. valvecucks would suck gaben dry given the chance.
i've noticed that wallpaper engine is basically just using steam's workshop servers as a filesharing service there's so much porn on the workshop it's crazy.
>>741456860Why would you use Japan time and not German time for Ceci?
>>741455421I mean, yeah? If the farmer poisoned the grain, it's totally his fault.
>>741455330Simply put, we can't have flash wallpapers anymore because nobody resisted hard enough when flash got discontinued.
>>741450257I don't even use wallpapersmy background is just solid black
>>741453547if applications are so risky why are computers legal?fucking nigger moron
>>741450257No one but third worlders use Wallpaper Engine, I am not surprised that it's full of third-world issues.
>>741460754Flash was trash.
>>741459278Same snoozefest whataboutisms from the Gabe cum guzzlers. Sad!
>>741450257>russian malware found virusesWow, shocking
>>741451613I do! I am also not poor!
>>741450257That game isn't made by Valve
>>741458137the problem is that the smear campaign doesn't have the effect of turning me against valveit has the effect of turning me against indians
>>741453175Not only do the wallpapers stop when not focused if you want, but also you are EXTREMELY poor and brown if said wallpaper affects your resources
>the header of the workshop when viewed from the steam client
>>741457816It cost me like 3 bucks to get access to animated wallpapers with a bunch of neat little reactivity elements made by dedicated autists on the Workshop a decade ago. I've got more joy out of it then I have a large fries from McDicks which was the same price.
>>741461431t. former Steve Jobs cultist
>>741462548>Implying that I'm an iToddler
