

You'll need to disable that add-on in order to use GameFAQs.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from work, school, a library, or another shared IP? Unfortunately, if this school or place of business doesn't stop people from abusing our resources, we don't have any other way to put an end to it. When we get more abuse from a single IP address than we do legitimate traffic, we really have no choice but to block it. If you don't think you did anything wrong and don't understand why your IP was banned.Īre you using a proxy server or running a browser add-on for "privacy", "being anonymous", or "changing your region" or to view country-specific content, such as Tor or Zenmate? Unfortunately, so do spammers and hackers. IP bans will be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis if you were running a bot and did not understand the consequences, but typically not for spamming, hacking, or other abuse. If you are responsible for one of the above issues. Having an excessive number of banned accounts in a very short timeframe.Running a web bot/spider that downloaded a very large number of pages - more than could possibly justified as "personal use".Automated spam (advertising) or intrustion attempts (hacking).With any luck steam will respond to my ticket sooner than later and we can get an answer to this once and for all.Your current IP address has been blocked due to bad behavior, which generally means one of the following: But it's likely a simple coding issue not security related,& Certainly not user related. I'm pretty sure that it's a legitimate window that's just verifying everything is current but I have read posts on the other forums including steam that may indicate an issue.

I think I missed three or so of your posts on page 1, but this morning I went back and read through it, and I'm thinking to myself "what are you talking about ?"īut then I came to the second page and it occurred to me that it was likely that you were either mistaken or confused about issue.Įasy enough to happen I mean there is posts in here about what you were referring to, but what DOP and myself and several others are experiencing is a rectangular window that pops up for about a second or two just as you launch steam, then it goes away ,& steam behalves normally. I will post back when I get a response from steam, and I know for a fact im not the only user who has submitted a ticket on this issue, hopefully it will be answered sooner than later. there is nothing else happening in this matter, other than steam launching as it is intended to, no restarts, no anything. Regardless of which of the two possibilities, or if its even a different issue i havent considered, It will be answered soon ,and we can put this to bed.Īnd to clarify again,(with this issue this thread is about) the only thing being questioned is why our clients are displaying a short window message about steam verifying/updating. My guess is one of two things.ġ- this is an intended function of steam, and is simply a part of the startup procedure.and the message is a "multi purpose" message for verifying/updating steam.Ģ- it is an issue with some component of steam inner workings, but has No real impact on how steam functions, and will be ironed out in a future release of the client. Mine is also Quite current, i have also gone beyond, since there seems to be some contention as to whether this is an actual issue or not, and submitted a ticket to steam support.

The date of the current version of Steam is March 22.
