People are being targeted with fake fixes on Steam game forums. A forum reply promises to solve a bug or crash, but the steps they provide walk you into pasting a command into Windows PowerShell. That command installs a hidden cryptominer that quietly hogs your PC — and the same trick can be used to drop password-stealing malware.
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Don’t paste commands from forum replies into PowerShell or Terminal. If a ‘fix’ tells you to run one, go to the official game site or Steam support yourself and check there.
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