# Steam - how safe?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/steam-how-safe/70799
**Category:** random
**Created:** [November 17, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/steam-how-safe/70799 "2004-11-17T17:13:34Z")
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### Author: ![lunatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lunatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lunatic)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/steam-how-safe/70799/1 "2004-11-17T17:13:34Z")

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Howdy ya’ll,

I did a search for Steam and all I found were threads about Counter Strike :sure:

My guy’s kid runs Steam on my machine. Now I have SpyBot, AVG, and Norton AntiVirus and so far so good (knock thrice). But I am curious to know - how safe is Steam? I’m really not into the whole file sharing thing and I hate the idea of my computer being open to anyone and everyone. But I don’t really want to kick the kid off so what’s the deal? Is my machine at risk?

thanks ya’ll 😃