{"id":157349,"date":"2025-03-21T19:58:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T19:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/valve-removes-video-game-demo-suspected-of-being-malware-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T19:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T19:58:54","slug":"valve-removes-video-game-demo-suspected-of-being-malware-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/valve-removes-video-game-demo-suspected-of-being-malware-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve removes video game demo suspected of being malware | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valve removed a video game from its online store Steam after users reported that a free demo for the game was installing malware on their computers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game was called Sniper: Phantom\u2019s Resolution, and promised to give players \u201crealistic [first-person shooter] mechanics, dynamic storytelling, and high-stakes missions,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250318021256\/https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3410050\/Sniper_Phantoms_Resolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">an archive of its Steam page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first reports that the free demo for the game may actually be malware came earlier this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pcgaming\/comments\/1jd12u3\/game_listed_on_steam_has_a_demo_that_is_a_virus\/?rdt=34227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">from several users on Reddit<\/a> who downloaded it and analyzed it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game\u2019s removal from Steam was first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/steam-gets-second-game-in-as-many-months-that-adds-malware-to-your-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TheGamer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, Valve had to deal with a similar situation, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/13\/valve-removes-steam-game-that-contained-malware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when it removed a game called PirateFi<\/a>, which turned out to be a plant for <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/18\/hackers-planted-a-steam-game-with-malware-to-steal-gamers-passwords\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">malware<\/a> designed to steal players\u2019 passwords, a type of malicious software known as an <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/31\/techcrunch-reference-guide-to-security-terminology\/#infostealers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">info-stealer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valve did not respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/21\/valve-removes-video-game-demo-suspected-of-being-malware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve removed a video game from its online store Steam after users reported that a free demo for the game was installing malware on their computers. The game was called Sniper: Phantom\u2019s Resolution, and promised to give players \u201crealistic [first-person shooter] mechanics, dynamic storytelling, and high-stakes missions,\u201d according to an archive of its Steam page.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-157349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}