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So I was playing a game online.
It's a fight/adventure game, Dauntless.
And everything is going well enough, but then another player, on a switch (Because the game allows players to see what other players are playing the game on. Some are on computer like me and other are on play station), sends me a invite to join their adventuring group, and immediately I get a Windows Defender Firewall Popup.
And I get worried because I don't know too much about this stuff and quickly read it and select an option I believe was to keep my network private and secure. But after examining it a bit more was to allow the game to access/communicate on my private network.
Because I deselected the public network and selected the private network.
I was thinking that was to keep my network safe and not allow anything onto my network or PC.
And then the game asked about a microphone which I don't have one but I kept the option button muted.
Do you understand what I mean? I don't mean to over explain but I figure you needed the context of what had happened.
Anyways I ran around a bit more in the game and the other other player that I accepted their invite into the adventuring group, shortly later disbanded the group. So I was on my own again which I was glad for.
So I decided to log off and figure out what had happen which ultimately lead me here.
***Question***
This is a long narrative for me to ask: could my network or PC have been infected or spied on? What I mean is could have that person have infected my computer or taken information off of my computer through me accidentally clicking allow? Is my network/PC secure still? Do I need to do anything?
The whole thing had me worried because I don''t normally play online games and it was strange how they offered an invite and then disbanded the adventuring group. Almost like it was to infect my computer or something.
Well, thank you if you read all of this and for any advice you provide.
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It's a fight/adventure game, Dauntless.
And everything is going well enough, but then another player, on a switch (Because the game allows players to see what other players are playing the game on. Some are on computer like me and other are on play station), sends me a invite to join their adventuring group, and immediately I get a Windows Defender Firewall Popup.
And I get worried because I don't know too much about this stuff and quickly read it and select an option I believe was to keep my network private and secure. But after examining it a bit more was to allow the game to access/communicate on my private network.
Because I deselected the public network and selected the private network.
I was thinking that was to keep my network safe and not allow anything onto my network or PC.
And then the game asked about a microphone which I don't have one but I kept the option button muted.
Do you understand what I mean? I don't mean to over explain but I figure you needed the context of what had happened.
Anyways I ran around a bit more in the game and the other other player that I accepted their invite into the adventuring group, shortly later disbanded the group. So I was on my own again which I was glad for.
So I decided to log off and figure out what had happen which ultimately lead me here.
***Question***
This is a long narrative for me to ask: could my network or PC have been infected or spied on? What I mean is could have that person have infected my computer or taken information off of my computer through me accidentally clicking allow? Is my network/PC secure still? Do I need to do anything?
The whole thing had me worried because I don''t normally play online games and it was strange how they offered an invite and then disbanded the adventuring group. Almost like it was to infect my computer or something.
Well, thank you if you read all of this and for any advice you provide.
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