


Users can also change their profile name at any time. Watch careful with Steam Friends Anyone can add you to their Friends list, even if you have never chatted with them before.This helps keep your Steam account from being hacked. Here are some tips to keep your account info safe: There are ways that individuals may try to trick you into giving out your account info. Scammers are everywhere, and Steam is no exception. With Steam Guard, any login attempt from an unrecognized computer must provide an authorization code that gets sent to your email. This is essentially a two-factor authentication that you can enable for your account. Steam offers something called Steam Guard as an additional level of security for your account. They have many measures in place to help protect the privacy of your account and credit card information. Don’t follow any links, or go to any websites suggested in chat.You should also avoid following any links to websites suggested by someone in chat. The most common source of malicious programs are in.
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Fortunately for Mac users, most viruses and malware will be written to attack Windows computers. Tip 2: Portal game is rather short, however, there are some community maps available to extend the gameplay, for example, WCS Maps Pack ( wcs_portaltfv_mappack.rar) and Portal: Prelude ( portal-prelude-setup-1.1.5.exe).Downloading purchased games on Steam should be safe.

Portal also includes Source SDK, so the free Portal is an alternative to get the Source SDK which is required to play many free games on Steam platform. Tip 1: Even if you don’t plan to play Portal now, do register the free license of Portal to your Steam account, as once “purchased” (with no cost), the Portal will be available forever. The download is about 1.4 GB, surge to almost 5 GB for Steam users who never install any Source engine powered game such as Half-Life 2 (HL2). Once the Portal is added to the Steam account, it will appear on the Steam client’s Games Library for users to install onto PC or Mac. User will need to login to Steam account or sign up for a new Steam account. To get the free license, just visit the Portal Storefront from now until May 24th, 2010, and click on the Install Game button.
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The free Portal game is available for both Windows and Mac OS X systems.
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As part of Steam for Mac release promotion, where Portal is the first Source SDK engine-powered game available for both Windows and Mac OS X (Steam Play enabled), Portal is now available for free through Steam account until May 24th, 2010. Though Portal: The First Slice does offer free game playing, it’s after all still a demo, with limited chambers (levels). Portal has been well received and liked by gamers and players due to its innovative and interesting game play, and has since won over 70 Game of the Year awards. The standalone retail version of the Portal game was available only since Apthrough Steam. Portal was released in a bundle package called The Orange Box for Windows, Xbox 360 and PS3 on 2007. Portal is a single-player first-person action and puzzle video game developed by Valve Corporation, which many Steam users familiar with as its demo, Portal: The First Slice with eleven test chambers (00-10), that available as free download initially for Nvidia GPU (graphics processing unit) owners and later for all Steam users.
