Protect your Steam account with Steam Guard.

[Pikarya]

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What is Steam Guard and how does it impact me?

Steam Guard is an additional level of security that can be applied to your Steam account. The first level of security on your account is your login credentials: your Steam account name and password. With Steam Guard, a second level of security is applied to your account, making it harder for your Steam account to fall into the wrong hands.

When Steam Guard is enabled on your account, anyone attempting to login to your Steam account from an unrecognized computer must provide additional authorization. A special access code will be sent to your contact email address, and this code must be entered into Steam before your login is complete.

Once you've verified your email address with Steam, Steam Guard becomes available for your use. Once enabled, you will be required to access your email and provide the special access code from Steam Support when logging into Steam from any computer which we don't recognize.

TL;DR

Great idea, but they should sell authenticators specifically tailored for this design, or create Android/iPhone apps.

[Correction]

This is what bank of america uses. Should be good enough for steam, considering most people aren't going to use their steam accounts outside of 2-3 computers tops. Lord knows I don't want another Authenticator to lose.

[Callisto]

Sounds like a knock-off brand of deodorant.

[Pikarya]

Gabe Newell could use it right about now. We all know Ep.3 is going to be a stinkin' failure.

[Corrderio]

Can't be as bad as what they turned TF2 into the past few months. Next update: More pormo items that do absolutely jack shit!

Overall it's a good system though, I have no complaints.

[Fairy-Killer]

I do: Every frickin' time I try to log into Steam at college it makes me put in a new code and since the account is linked to my brother's email who is located conveniently 5 hours northwest of my temporary home, I can't immediately get this code. It'd be nice if they'd fixed this before implementing the damn thing.

[Corrderio]

I do: Every frickin' time I try to log into Steam at college it makes me put in a new code and since the account is linked to my brother's email who is located conveniently 5 hours northwest of my temporary home, I can't immediately get this code. It'd be nice if they'd fixed this before implementing the damn thing.

You can turn it off in your steam settings. Steam > Settings > Manage Steam Guard Account Security.

[Kaisha]

You can also change the e-mail associated with the account. ;/

[Fairy-Killer]

My brother uses Steam like none other and has to have the guard on there because he gets many viruses/trojans/keyloggers. We've had the steam account hacked a few times now... Just started up my computer from hibernation and it asked for a code and proceeded to log me out. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu....