what do I do if I have downloaded and installed the infected game?
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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Cool, then what will be the 1337x alternative?
thepiratebay.org what else would it be? #sweden
Hmm I've heard that site nowadays is just the shadow of it's former self.
I learned about https://torrentgalaxy.to/ recently. I'm not positive it's a good alternative though.
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At the risk of asking an incredibly stupid question, but if I only ever torrent video/audio, scan everything I download with defender, and only ever use a recently updated version of vlc, what's the risk?
I remember getting viruses in ye olden days, but afaik the main problem is malware now.
This is about a game, which is a .exe. In your case, it's probably not an issue, but games will be. Pdfs also had an issue for a while, but I think that's solved. As far as I'm aware, there aren't any video/audio codec or VLC issues to be worried about though, so you should be good.
Movies and audio are very rarely infected, almost never. That depends on bugged software, so that you can be relatively safe of.
Executables... well... no anti virus can protect you in reality from dumb double-clicks. This is because viruses are trained against anti virus software until they can't be recognized. There are mathematically an infinite number of patterns to run a program to trick all kinds of anti viruses. So in reality you can't be safe. Once that's done by an expert virus creator, the best you have to protect you is a behavioral detection of viruses, which may or may not work.
So, don't rely on anti viruses. They barely protect you from script kiddies and legacy viruses.
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I got baldurs gate from igg-games, does anyone know if I'm safe? I'm asking for advice dunno why I'm getting down voted xD
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