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Steam Cleaning: Valve Now Moderating Workshop Submissions
You may have visited Steam’s workshop in the past and thought to yourself “this Counter Strike section could do with a lot less scam submissions in the workshop.” For those unaware, distributors of unsavory material have been targeting the Steam workshop for years by submitting fake maps with alluring titles offering free skins or free knives, and then linking users to websites that would steal their information.
Dangerous yes, and for those smart enough to not fall for said scam, an absolute annoyance as they were a constant nuisance and ever present. Unfortunately for those rascally scam artists, that era has come to an end.
Valve this week has updated the process with which workshop items are approved, and now new submissions must be approved manually by Valve staff before they are publicly visible. The same goes for any updates to existing workshop items. For its part, Valve is promising speedy approval with most submissions being approved within a day.
“Newly submitted and updated items will be placed into a moderation queue. You’ll be able view and edit the content during this process, but other players will not be able to view changes until they’re approved. For updates to existing items, subscribers will have access to the previously approved version if there is one. The approval process should be completed in less than a day. If you have any questions on the process, please contact Steam Support“
The news specifically mentions that this change is targeting scams and account theft through the workshop, so it is unlikely that Valve is policing any content other than weeding out the fake giveaways.
Source: Steam
PSA: Battlefield Beta Phishing
Battlefield 1 is making big headlines and with E3 just days away, it only makes sense that some unscrupulous individuals are piggybacking on the hype to defraud users. According to reports popping up, the URL http://www.battlefieldbeta.com has popped up, among others, with fake signup links that steal your EA username and password.
MMO Fallout traced the domain back to Whoisguard, a service in Panama that allows for anonymous domain registration and, unsurprisingly, is used to hide the identity of people engaged in fraudulent and criminal activity. As always, users should remain vigilant when browsing the net and pay attention to the domain when deciding where to enter your credentials.
Bags Are Bind On Equip In Neverwinter
As part of an effort to curb damage from account theft, Neverwinter bags are being made bind-on-equip. The update took place during today’s maintenance and includes the greater elven silken bag, bag of holding, and greater bag of holding.
The update also adds a runic bag of holding:
Over the course of our game, we have added more potions, refinements and additional items that you will find on our adventures through Faerûn. However, we haven’t made efforts to increase the inventory space. The Runic Bag of Holding will add that additional space for those players looking to bring along more loot as they explore the world.
Bags already equipped will not be bound until they are equipped again.
(Source: Neverwinter)
[Community] Guild Wars 2 Authorized Logins
![[Community] Guild Wars 2 Authorized Logins](https://mmofallout.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/guild-wars-2_83015.jpg?w=800)
This week’s Community Concerns is all about Guild Wars 2, primarily questions about emails you may have received from ArenaNet regarding attempts to access your account. Guild Wars 2 utilizes a security method of email authentication whenever you attempt to log in from a new computer. Aside from being an excellent incentive to keep your passwords unique to each account, this method also acts as an early warning system that someone somewhere, has your password, and that you should change it immediately.
The top question I receive on this topic is how to know if these emails are legitimately from ArenaNet. The answer is that you should always assume that these emails are legitimate, change your password and possibly even run your anti-virus program just to be safe if you receive one. Never click on the authorization link unless you are explicitly expecting the email (you logged in and the game blocked you) because if the email is not legitimate, you will end up at a fake website and expose your computer. If the email is legitimate, all you accomplish is to authorize a thief to log in and ransack your account. You have nothing to gain and everything to lose by clicking the authorization, again unless you are explicitly expecting contact.
The second most asked question is how to know if the email is real when you do actually have to authorize your computer. If you receive two emails at the same time and both are asking for authorization, close the client and wait a few minutes, then log in again and the system will email you again. There is roughly a .00001% chance of a fake authorization just happening to be sent to you as you log in for real, and if you are blocked and receive only one email with your location details, you can safely assume that it is legitimate.
This is what the email looks like. Make sure to doublecheck the city, region, and country, before authorizing.
A log-in attempt from the following location is currently awaiting your authorization.
Address: [IP Address]
City: Hamburg
Region: NY
Country: USThis location is approximated based on information provided by your Internet Service Provider. If in doubt, deny the request and try again.
If you are certain this log-in attempt was not made by you, then someone else knows your log-in credentials and you should change your password immediately via Account Management.
For security purposes, we alert you each time your account is accessed from an unrecognized location. To authenticate this log-in attempt, please click the link below:
https://account.guildwars2.com/login/allow?token=[string of numbers & letters]&request=[string of numbers and letters]
Need help or have questions about your Guild Wars account? Visit our support site: http://en.support.guildwars2.com/
Thanks!
–The ArenaNet Team
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