Hey folks, I ran into something weird today while gaming on Steam. My game crashed and then Steam followed suit. I opened Task Manager to troubleshoot, and after some time, I noticed that Windows Defender flagged and deleted a threat related to Steam. There were four detections in total, all timed around the crashes. The threats identified were Behavior:Win32/GenRansom.A!cl and Behavior:Win32/BMCIBlock.C!cl, both targeting C:Steamsteam.exe. I've double-checked, and the executable is from my legitimate install with the Valve digital signature. I suspect it might be a false positive since there hasn't been any weird behavior or file encryptions on my end, and I haven't downloaded anything dodgy recently—only some safe utilities like GPU-Z and MSI Afterburner. Has anyone else dealt with something similar? Should I be worried or is it likely just a glitch?
2 Answers
You might want to upload the suspicious files to Virus Total. I had a similar experience with Defender giving me false positives recently, so you're not alone!
If you're concerned about malware, consider running a full scan with Malwarebytes Free too. It can sometimes catch things that Defender misses.
I did a full scan with Defender and an offline check, but I’ll definitely try Malwarebytes next. Thanks for the tip!