Valve removes the video game demo suspected of being malware

Valve has deleted a video game from his Steam online store after users reported that a free demo for the game installs malware on their computers.

The game was called sniper: the resolution of Phantom, and promised to give players “shooting mechanisms (shooter in the first person), dynamic narration and high issues missions”, according to An archive of his Steam page.

The first reports according to which the free demo of the game could actually be malware came earlier this week Of several users on Reddit who downloaded and analyzed him.

The withdrawal of Steam’s game was reported for the first time by THEGAMER.

Last month, Valve had to face a similar situation, When he deleted a game called Piratefiwhich turned out to be a plant for malware Designed to steal players’ passwords, a type of malware known as Info-Stalener.

Valve did not respond to a request for comments.