A game I downloaded after following the Megathread activated Windows Defender. Most searches in the reddit showed that it was a False Positive but I checked in Virus Total just in case and found this. The website was RePack-Games (I read the note but I didn’t find the game on the Goat sites), the game was Dynasty Warriors 8. I’d like to ask what my next course of action is here. The game also wouldn’t load after the cutscene when u select a character.
I do not know about this specific case, but many cracked copies are true false-positives. Only 28/74 flagged it as malicious. Sure, do your due diligence, but in general it’ll be picked by antiviruses as malware.
Community score being 36 makes me think this might be a well-known crack. Check the community tab there, see what the comments say.
Yet another reason I try not to pirate pc games or software (when I can help it).
If you’re going to do such things, get them from someone you ‘trust’
I run my pirated games in Linux sandboxed using firejail (Wine itself doesn’t sandbox anything as it’s only an adaptor layer) configured to block a lot of things including network access.
Then again I also run my non-pirated games in Linux in the same way.
movies, music and pdfs/ebooks should be “okay” to pirate though, since they are more read than executable programs, right …
i remember reading how some movies/shows came with a malicious lnk file that windows then picks up and gets infected
For the most part. Just dont download from sketchy sources
how do you know what source is sketchy?
Reputation.
well yeah, but where do you find reliable information about that? i know there is the megathread but that doesnt have every site listed on the good ones nor the ones to avoid.
Just assume every public tracker is compromised.
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