Valve eliminated a online game from its on-line retailer Steam after customers reported {that a} free demo for the sport was putting in malware on their computer systems.
The recreation was referred to as Sniper: Phantom’s Resolution, and promised to provide gamers “life like [first-person shooter] mechanics, dynamic storytelling, and high-stakes missions,” based on an archive of its Steam web page.
The first studies that the free demo for the sport may very well be malware got here earlier this week from a number of customers on Reddit who downloaded it and analyzed it.
The recreation’s removing from Steam was first reported by TheGamer.
Last month, Valve needed to cope with an identical state of affairs, when it eliminated a recreation referred to as PirateFi, which turned out to be a plant for malware designed to steal gamers passwords, a sort of malicious software program referred to as an info-stealer.
Valve didn’t reply to a request for remark.
