What is Steam.exe? Is Steam.exe spyware or a virus?

What are you to do to fix Steam.exe related problems?
1. Run Security Task Manager to check your Steam.exe process
2. Run Registry Booster to fix Steam.exe related errors
3. Run Spyware Doctor to remove persistent malware

Process name: Steam
Product: Steam or Steam.exe or Counter-Strike: Condition Zero or Steam(TM) or Doom or PacSteam or Deus Ex: Game of the Year or Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars or Source Dedicated Server or Half-Life or Counter-Strike: Source or Team Fortress Classic
Company: Valve Corporation (www.valvesoftware.com)
File: Steam.exe


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Note: Any malware can be named anything - so you should check where the files of the running processes are located on your disk. If a "non-Microsoft" .exe file is located in the C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32 folder, then there is a high risk for a virus, spyware, trojan or worm infection! Check it out!


Users Opinions

504 users ask for this file. 2 users didn't rate it ("don't know"). 29 users rated it as not dangerous. 3 users rated it as not so dangerous. 7 users rated it as neutral. 4 users rated it as little bit dangerous. 6 users rated it as dangerous.


All comments about Steam.exe:
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DoNe it is a valve (half-life and allmods) connection control Prog  See also: Link
Steve Steam is known to use up alot o system resources if your having trouble running other games , it is suggested you close steam
Extreamly dangerous file, may cause fatal errors on infected pc's
Selecta Steam, Benötigt um HL:CS im Internet zu spielen. Jedoch öffnet es einen Port, den auch Trojaner benutzen  See also: Link
h2k.nl just steam... (counterstrike)
Mike Steam is used for games like CounterStrike and Half Life 2. Not dangerous at all.
Spongebob Deutschland is for a game counterstrike :)  See also: Link
joyman Its secure ! steam , valve and most important company of games
RAWBEAR uses 46 megs on my machine! Not dangerous but I choose when to activate it
Lancaster Silk Completely safe file used by Valve for running their games, like Half-life and Counter-strike  See also: Link
Nelix User for online gaming. If installed correctly no probs
Gamers! xD
glendor valve software/spyware/system hog
SoltoN May cause addiction to games such as counterstrike: Source, other than that its harmless
Max Steam delivers Valve’s games to your desktop and connects you to a massive gaming community
Will absolutely not dangerous, HL, HL2 and CS online multiplayer program, though personally i choose to close it down, it takes up alot of RAM
anonymus eine datei die das spielen von half life 2 oder cs möglich macht
Raphael Steam ist harmlos, wird zum Spielen von CS benötigt
valve software/spyware/system hog
l0g4n It enables you to play games such as counterstrike and halflife .etc.
Darren Obviously not harmless, but can use a lot of system memory. When not playing the Valve/Steam games, I recomend closing it.  See also: Link
elvispelvis if your not playing steam games (ie cs, day of defeat etc..) then it would pay to have this off as it fairly chews through cpu cycles not sure what its doing perhaps relaying system info to valve?
Adam harmless but takes alot of ram i usually choose when for it to start rather then it starting it self. uses alot of bandwith
valve software/spyware/system hog but necessary to play Valve game... :( (Counter-Strike, Hl²,...)
Nemorb Valve client, seems to be patched regarding vuln.
Syne Es ist nicht Bösartig, wen man ein gutes Anti-virenpogram hat stört ein auch die par spyware nicht. Hir ist ein gutes Virenpogram Link:  See also: Link
valves steam halt, harmlos aber frisst resourcen
M2K Game Produkt!
greylines allows access into your puter in which tampering can occur
Michael Monzon Steam is used to launched all of Valve's games, and is required. It is not harmful in any way, but may use up resources. Can be completely uninstalled or not used.  See also: Link
dataCore Steam.exe ist ein Programm das die Spiele von Valve verwaltet: Halflife 1/2, Counterstrike/Source, Mods usw... für das Betriebsystem harmlos aber hat so seine maken ;-)  See also: Link
Cyrius Steam... Used to play Half-life, Counter-Strike and other Valve products!  See also: Link
Valdi Cs = counterstrike
ujjwal bhalla from indi it says something like steam.exe. unable to load media library ths happens in half life 2 after the installiation of all 5 cds
HellSpawn Valve product needed to play online with its games  See also: Link
KARTAR für gamer die cs spielen is das erforderlich, aber sie müssen wissen das infos zu valve gesendet werden (z.b.cpu tack....) dies is ungefährlich, nur blöd das ein port geöffnet wird über den auch trojaner auf das system gelangen
Steamsymbol in der Taskleiste. Für Halflife, CounterStrike und ähnliches
James Its for Half Life and other games, but can also be a spyware for the creators. also a gateway to your computer for trojans etc
Toby hs It cannot be deleted and causes slowdown on over java applets, never install it, i have had two different computers which had steam on and they both crashed after installing it.
rambo steam.exe hs become a hidden program how do i make it visible
Mr.Silaz Counterstrike Online Updater und GameConnecter
Valve product launcher, but is using way more resources (including network access) than it should be. Spyware likely.
PZS Steam is a program that allows your computer to connect to the internet to play games associated with Half-Life.
user friendly anti-piracy software (what an oxymoron!)

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