Not Gonna Be On For Awhile

[KarthXLR]

FREAKING SPY'S DESTROY EVERYTHING I LOVE.

[Benito Mussolini]

Ouch, that hurts...

Hope you get it all back, servers won't be as fun without you

[Luinbariel]

I'm sorry to hear about that, I hope its all able to be worked out to your advantage.

[Evil Cheese]

Wow... that sucks something awful. I'd be raging pretty bad if that happened to me. Sorry to hear that happened to you. Hopefully Valve can get this sorted out quickly.

[jorge]

Raped. Valve is usually cool about this though.

[Tricoden]

No! Spore D:

Hope you get your stuff back soon

[Spore]

Well I'm going to do the thing where I scan my CD key and put the information on. Then again there is one tiny little note...

Note:
In the event that a hijacked Steam account is banned by the Valve Anti-Cheat System, Steam Support will not be able to reverse the ban.

Edit:

Who are Spores enemy's? Why would they want him eliminated? Who would do such a thing?

GENTLEMEN, I've got one answer for you:

You're probably right. No wonder the messages 'I' sent people made no sense.

Edit 2: If anybody can point me towards what they think the best Anti-Virus program is (using Norton right now), please do.

[Evil Cheese]

Try AVG or Avast. They both are free.

[Spore]

Try AVG or Avast. They both are free.

Yeah, I got avast and I am performing a scan now. My Norton hasn't been updated in a few months since it expired so...

[Mission Difficult]

My favorite anti-virus is now Clamwin. A suggestion from ainmosni in another thread. Doesn't auto protect, but scans relatively fast, finds the shit, and is free.

[Versus]

Shit...that sucks. Hope you get yours back...

I REALLY hope mine doesn't get hacked...so many games on it. :<

[Fail Medic]

So, does changing password regularly help protect against this?  And I mena passwords with random capital / number characters? 

Or does that even .. I mean, is it useless to think password changing would help?

[Versus]

I don't think that would help.

also, send me fullsize of your avatar asap.

[Spore]

Full avast scan reveals no viruses. I'm smart enough not to pass out my account information. Don't know what happened.

[KarthXLR]

I'll bet it was a trojan or malware.

But you're using firefox, amirite? Doesn't it scan downloads for viruses automatically anyway?

[Geoff]

Full avast scan reveals no viruses. I'm smart enough not to pass out my account information. Don't know what happened.

Take a look at the link I posted.  So far people said only Kaspersky could pick something up.  Some people had to look at the trace of an outgoing connect, and most just reformatted.

[Spore]

[quote author=Spore link=topic=1409.msg38763#msg38763 date=1221443694]
Full avast scan reveals no viruses. I'm smart enough not to pass out my account information. Don't know what happened.

Take a look at the link I posted.  So far people said only Kaspersky could pick something up.  Some people had to look at the trace of an outgoing connect, and most just reformatted.
[/quote]

That thread is two years old. I wouldn't think it to still be relevant.

Edit: Sent in the cdkey with username written on it and awaiting a reply in a few days I presume. We'll see.

Day 1: No email response :<
Edit: Last online, 1 hour ago, what's he doing?! :<

[Spore]

Fast service is fast! Steam has reset my password! Of course the big question right now is whether I'm VAC banned now from the guy or not :3 Gonna do some more virus/trojan/meanies scans just to appease my paranoia. I mean, it could have been found out all kinds of ways. I did use that password for everything after all. Maybe somebody got a hold of it from some other source and found my username and just tried it. Who knows? Well, I'm half relieved.

[Fail Medic]

Fast service is fast!

Excellent news.  Here's hoping it doesn't happen again.  Have you considered a password keeper software with a master password on it and just generate S(*ciks098u2-style passwords for everything else?

[Spore]

Throw some links on for fancy pants security suggestions and I'll look into them. Oh, and I need to rebuild my friends list too.