Users who haven't enabled it, or can't, can still trade, but they'll have to wait up to 3 days for the trade to go through. "This means that anyone using the Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator to confirm trades is able to continue trading as always. Simply download WinAuth on any computer, login to your WinAuth account and it will start generating Authentication codes.The problem then lies in what happens when you don't have an Android phone or an iPhone lying around to use Steam Guard with: It relieves people from having their mobile phone by their side whenever they want to sign in to their Steam Account. WinAuth is 100% legit, open source, easy to use software. You simply need to register for a WinAuth Account and then add a Steam Mobile Authenticator on it by logging in to your steam account. WinAuth can be used with many Bitcoin trading websites as well as games, supporting (World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Diablo), Guild Wars 2, Glyph (Rift and ArcheAge), WildStar, RuneScape, SWTOR and Steam. WinAuth is a portable, open-source Authenticator for Windows that provides counter or time-based RFC 6238 authenticators and common implementations, such as the Google Authenticator. There are 2 methods to use services of Steam Mobile Authenticator without owning a Mobile Phone. I don't have a Mobile Phone how can I use services of Steam Mobile Authenticator? More information about Steam Mobile Authenticator can be found here : Therefore further security measures were introduced to enable best level of security. Why did Valve introduce Steam Mobile Authenticator?Īccording to recent report by Valve employees revealed that more than 77,000 Steam Accounts were hijacked per month resulting in serious consequences for the account holders that lose virtual items ranging from 0.04$ to 2000+$.
Enabling Steam Mobile Authenticator provides the best security measures for your account. What are the advantages of Steam Mobile Authenticator?Įnabling Steam Mobile Authenticator makes it impossible for hackers/crackers or scammers to hijack your account or take access over your account and trade expensive game items such as TF2 items, CS:GO Skins or Dota2 items. Your phone does not need to be connected to the Internet for the authenticator to work (however, your phone does need to know the correct time).
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