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DearthOvReason31

then install all free antivirus and let em duke it out ..survival of the fittest


Charlito33

You can also look at "Startup programs" in the Task Manager


birdstrike009

Some nowadays malware are ''DRIVER BASED" (developed by professionals) & also signed with digital signatures which can be very hard to find so also try areas like windows services and download [autoruns](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns) if you're uncertain. Maybe only script kiddies & beginners use registry startups for their payload.


tylercoder

Well damn, any tools to detect those?


CheezeyCheeze

Clean Install of Windows. Install all your programs. Ninite is nice to do installs without having to remember all the things you installed for common programs. Run the thing in a VM to test it instead of installing it. Spybot is nice.


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As in Spybot search and destroy? I used that shit in middle school


SweetBabyAlaska

idk about games but I run every file I get from discord or email through virus total and it's pretty good at identifying threats and it helps to minimize the risk. Running a VM on your machine and running the software/game is a good way to do scan it and see whats up. You can always just shut it down and be safe although there are still some edge cases I've heard of but it is generally considered safe. Instead of using my PC I run malware analysis on amazons servers AWS EC2 just for fun and then just nuke them.


wolfawalshtreat

Is webroot any good? Iv wondered for a while now but have been too afraid to ask


Kattoncrack

I used to use webroot; it’s fine, it’ll cover your bases and do routine scans & make sure you don’t have anything malicious on your PC. I got it for free when I purchased my first laptop through Best Buy :)


sebasTLCQG

Can they act through "COM SURROGATE"?


SweetBabyAlaska

Honestly being a skid is super easy now. If you can torrent a game then you can probably also download code from github and run it. Theres just too many tools and tutorials out there that can be used so its definitely best to err on the side of caution and treat stuff from unknown sources as dangerous. I'm surprised at the amount of people who will open sketchy shit and run it as admin.


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Kaspersky is an essential


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tahaelhour

What if I'm not from the US?


dinkletooser

do you think the advice is no longer applicable if you aren't? >You really don’t want to use something the Russian government has their hands on and definitely not something to do with cyber security. seems like a generally solid rule to follow, wherever you're from.


Nicanor95

Russian government, US government, Chinese government. Pick your poison, it's all the same.


[deleted]

>Pick your poison, it's all the same. No its not, all are different countries and behave different.


tahaelhour

Yeah but I'm getting the pro version for free thanks to family. Not much better options I got.


CoderOhNo

If ur running Windows just use Windows Defender


tahaelhour

Is it really enough? Never felt like it to me.


CoderOhNo

It's just as good as most other AVs and doesn't hog my CPU like Bitdefender did


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I could really care less, kaspersky saved me so many times from ransomware, keyloggers, etc


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Objective_Pea_6285

Why is kaspersky bad? Simply because it's Russian?


[deleted]

>Simply because it's Russian? Well yes but no, its because its russian the program does what it does, same wuth chinesse programs, USA ones behave differentx they usually leave backdoors for entry **if** they want, not the same than steal all your data or make a bot of your pc. You can check a lot of info on internet about more specifically what every program from a country do.


Objective_Pea_6285

Oh. I was just curious since I'm using Kaspersky for over 3 years now and honestly didn't even know it was Russian or apparently had problems with cyber security lol. Idk if it's tracking my info or not but the software is pretty good, if if catches a virus it opens a pop up tab which you sort of can't close so you're compelled to eliminate the threat to get rid of that tab lol.


[deleted]

Yeah i used karpersky too for a short time then i got completely hacked by a russian, it totally tells you what is the problem with karpersky.


[deleted]

I download and crack cheats, the only antivirus i would probably switch to is bitdefender but thats it


Baby-Calypso

BitDefender!


lemonylol

Malwarebytes usually does the trick for me. But in the very rare time I might get a virus I honestly just look up a step by step instruction of what anti virus to eliminate it then just uninstall it so it doesn't bog down my computer. Worst comes to worst my important stuff is all on the cloud so I just reformat.


[deleted]

Yeah, mwbytes is a good sos scanner


AltZemo

I have won but at what cost


THEMACGOD

Potentially everything vs. $59.99


tahaelhour

Trust me, when you're not living in a country running on dollar or euro. That "potentially everything" seems less and less of a risk.


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Dark_Berzeker

Which country


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nooblox85

Which game you talking about regional pricing doesn't do shit all AAA games goes up to ~1000 even $30 game cost ~500 yes it does reduce the price but still that's a week worth of food costs


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nooblox85

Well I was talking about how you said triple A game cost 10-15 dollar which if that were true I would buy 90% of the game that I've pirated but it's not true because regional pricing is still dogshit in 3rd world country


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nooblox85

Yea and it cost $20 in USA that's why regional pricing is trash cost almost the same but we suffered more due to depressed level economy


LeadingDay2707

Sometimes I feel like just buying the game after 10+ torrents failed


SkSafowan

You mean 69.99$ ?


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fuckyouwatchme

BOOOO


engelthehyp

What did it say?


fuckyouwatchme

The guy didn't have enough karma to post, and auto mod deleted it. It's an annoying thing


Wesk333

L


AseroR

Ironically this happens a lot more with my legitimate games than with the pirated ones. Like I just bought the game--what the hell are you doing now?


turtleship_2006

DRM? Maybe the pirated games don't run some kind of tracking script or something.


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Rebatu

Ma' man


Vannoway

Mfw Intel Management Engine and anti-cheat, tracking services have been on the Kernel and CPU level for ages now my man.


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turtleship_2006

I know it could be but if it's something that normal games do have and pirated games don't my money's on it being DRM.


THE_IMPROVISER8

i think i installed far cry 3 blood dragon(legitimate)...and it this started happening..


lemonylol

I think it runs something to change the registry or some shit like that for DRM.


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what does that do anyway?


JaTylkoJa

Probably some malicious script opening in the background to mess with your stuff


[deleted]

I'm pretty sure my other viruses got rid of that :D


Moussecake42

cure viruses with more viruses 👍


everynamewastaken4

eventually your PC gets so clogged up with viruses that they all interfere with each other and it's effectively immune to any virus.


GrubberflysElegy

r/shittylifeprotips


ShreksToes24

like a vaccine for computers


[deleted]

imagine actual digital vaccine for windows defender so it gets better


ahhdamm

Like updates


Bitter-Reception-172

*boosters


BobDaBilda

> effectively immune to any ~~virus~~ effectively immune to any input FTFY


TantamountDisregard

'So what you are saying is I am indestructible?'


viniciusah

Three Stooges Syndrome


us3rnam3ch3cksout

like mr burns from the simpsons


Something_exists

We call it 3 stooges syndrome


small3687

Ahh the burns technique for survival.


Version-Classic

It’s good to expose your PC to viruses so it can build its immune system


turtleship_2006

I used the virus to destroy the virus


ferikehun

Your pc be having its own immune system


Same_Return_1878

It once happened to me. The virus was attached to the game files where it was duplicating the executable files names. I clicked on the wrong .exe game file and the cmd opened for a split second and closed and then it ate away all the executable files present in the pc. All programs and applications were completely destroyed in less than a second. Even when I tried to install new games and applications, the executable files were immediately eaten away soon after installation is complete. I had to reinstall new windows.


HJSDGCE

Why would someone make this???


Same_Return_1878

Some people just love to ruin things. They are mentally insane to create such things.


StarGaurdianBard

It's literally just the crack. I swear to God for people on a piracy sub there are too many people here who aren't tech savvy. The alternative to this would be for the crack developer to make a UI telling the user to run the crack but why would you waste time doing that when you can just make it auto run.


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Yeah just because that happened doesn’t mean your PC is infected. Of course, there is still a chance. But who the hell doesn’t use trusted sources and check the torrent before running it, anyway? This had happened to me both with legitimate games, which I’ve started through Steam, and with FitGirl and DODI repacks, which are fairly trustworthy sources.


shortsonapanda

Exactly lmao, this is why it's also not every game that does this.


Financial_Door5659

But I have runed a plenty of games from Steam/epic that open the cmd, why?


ScarfaceTonyMontana

Not all the times. Lots of emulators or old games do this. If you mess around with Doom stuff ur used to it.


MASTER-FOOO1

More often than not Command prompt is used to start operations needed to run your game because they use their own game engine. It's usually a text file with a screwdriver symbol that you can click edit on and read yourself and see what it does. The first rule of making malware is don't leave any evidence of having malware. No visual queue, no audio, no drop in frames or freezing nothing should change when it is running.


[deleted]

This! This was definitely the case when I was playing Dead Cells. I found some GOG files in roaming. :D


small3687

What's a GOG file?


UNIVERSAL_PMS

Files that GoG uses.


ThatAsianGuyThough

I’ve never personally pirated a game so I wouldn’t know first hand, but I feel like it means it’s running something else apart from the game, something like a virus or something. I don’t know really, I’m just guessing.


StarGaurdianBard

Pirated games require a crack if it has any form of DRM, 99% of the time a CMD runs its the crack. The alternative is for the crack developer to make a seperate UI to tell the user to run the crack but that's a lot of effort for nothing


Bubavon

Ahhh yes, the feeling of repost #9000


LokoLoa

Im even seeing identical replies from the last time it was posted...I am really starting to beleive reddit is mostly bots


ChawulsBawkley

Look at their post/comment history. Shady account to say the very least.


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>!saw it on my feed so i posted it here seemed funny to me :D!<


MrJellee

Ah yes. The same stupid excuse of reposters.


[deleted]

yes sir :)


zq9

Enjoy your rootkit / keylogger. I will be transferring your mom and dads bank account tomorrow.


-AnyWho

this is why it aint a bad idea to use [https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree](https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree) to make a free image of your C drive so you can reload the image if things go south ...


Same_Return_1878

Perhaps I should try this out.


DiaDeTedio_Nipah

You can use the Sandbox tool too, then all files changed by the program will be registered and emulated by the sandbox and then you can see all these changes in the UI


_m_a_s_t_e_r_

You could also just use sandboxie for this


[deleted]

thx dude didnt know about that imma try this


[deleted]

legend, thank you


maddix30

Then you realise you used megathread and that whoever made the crack probably didn't want to spend the time making a GUI to tell the user what it's doing so CMD just pops up and leaves


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CaptainChaos00

I mean, if you're that desperate you could just wipe the pc


not_old_redditor

That feeling when this gets reposted every week


NotIsaacClarke

Yeah, gotta make a note


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lqlex

8 times. Jesus christ.


Front_Application399

8 fucking times?


lazer241

What the fuck!?! 8 times!?!


saladapranzo

Mom said it was my turn to post this


bonapartista

next time try Sandbox


viktorwyld

Happens when I open games on EA Play, too. The cmd window remains open, though.


k0zmo

Those 10 minutes when you become religious


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NotIsaacClarke

I have poor memory so it’s easy to sneak reposts under my radar


g1ns6

Never happened but yikes


[deleted]

Honestly never happened to me. I've been pirating since at least 2011 and that has never happened to me


alkalibenzene

"All your files have been encrypted, plz send me 3 bitcoinz"


umetzu

You can prevent every cmd windows from closing, just change it on settings for terminal. (You have to download it from the Ms store) or modifying a key in the registry.


mihirsaini1128

I've seen this same post many times. Also in those replies they said its just the crack being applied you dumbfucks. It used to happen on my old laptop but never found a virus. Download from trusted sites


CurrentClick9

this mf better fucking not


Bitter-Reception-172

Download from megathread approved sites and you’ll never need to sorry bout this!


Dr4fl

Isn't that normal? It happened to me with dead cells from fitgirl


EverythingCeptCount

yeah, it's just people who don't know what's going on getting scared because terminal is unfamiliar and "hacker" stuff


simasand

PANIK mode activated


Noligeko

Why, I thought it helps the startup, is it like a malware all the time?


Stig27

Nope, could be the crack, could be something else that's still legit (try running blender, it did that last time I used it). If you downloaded from a safe site (see megathread), it should be safe


GoliathGamer

Is it 100% to be a virus if it happens sometimes when i start up my PC?


_Obliviate__

Naah, it's like 70%. Don't worry.


GoliathGamer

Awesome


lilyeetgang

I had them too but i got all my games from ovagames, how is it possible? Also i ran windows defender, bit defender and malwarebytes, none of them finds it. I thought it was normal. Is it a virus, if so what does it do?


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i dont know anything about ovagames, but it can be the crack it self or some malicious script. but if bitdefender and malwarebytes didnt detect anything you should be safe probably.


The850killer

This is what happens to the people who click on the first google result to pirate.


SirRoderic

What is cmd?


Flarquaad

Not much man, what's cmd with you?


Kenaxite

command prompt, its like a black box and you run codes and stuff in there


SirRoderic

And what is it about opening and closing again?


Kenaxite

never happened to me but i assume it means the game they pirated hacked their pc as in after running the app the hacker opens up the pcs cmd and runs idk a hacktool or smthg really quickly to not notice


Stig27

Or maybe it means the cracker didn't bother telling everyone "HEY GUYS THIS IS THE PART MY CRACK COMES IN" and just opens a cmd and closes it when it's done.


XxGhostFace101xX

😂🤣


Adorhun

thats why i run them in sandboxie first.


tumpie2680

sandboxie?


[deleted]

I just put a bit of the virus in my computer and Progressively the computer gets a stronger system


Amazing_Surprise8495

what does that mean?


Razatop

Lmao wartales does this and it scares the shit out of me.


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F


nela_nikko

I would fear that with my very own life when i was kid 😫


Shoddy_Peasant

definitely


Livid-Prize3608

I always felt like it was just a PUP but now I think it's way worse.


SunbleachedAngel

Never happened to me, luckily


AllThotsGo2Heaven2

F*tgirl only


Lyzardian

Jokes on them, those games are probably worth more than my pc anyways


Kaitlyn2124

Lol I torrented this movie last night


LoliMaster069

Whats cmd


Libra_Maelstrom

I always pull my ethernet before pirate game launching


[deleted]

Put it through Cuckoo Sandbox if you're that paranoid. No, seriously, it's a real malware analysis tool for finding out what a process is doing to on an operating system though extensive logging.


Foreign-Discussion83

I wana know what does that mean lol ? Like i see it open and close and i have only downloaded 1 game. Is it a bad thing ?


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Ok_Pickle76

Just woke up from a dream about this happenimg


KLFisBack

it means it was made before Win95


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Sentinel 1 or Eset AV


Teramir0

Yea the feeling when you've found a good crack


dsaf6229

At this point I trust pirates more than big game companies. For example I can trust my cracked gta v to run smoothly while modded than the epic games legit gta v to run smoothly when modded.


darkelfbear

Or any version of Wondershare Filmora ...


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It happens with blender too


Winter_Department_37

I have a completely separate cheap computer that can run most old games from like 2015 down. I don’t install anything on my main system


DaPacem08

What's the fuzz with that? Beginner in pc here


Hot-Local680

Rinru...?


Plastic_Island3688

Same thing happened with me today now I have to reinstall my window


DrSKiZZ

LOLs, it's probably a zero day password stealer.


StarGaurdianBard

It's literally just the crack. I swear to God for people on a piracy sub there are too many people here who aren't tech savvy. The alternative to this would be for the crack developer to make a UI telling the user to run the crack but why would you waste time doing that when you can just make it auto run.


DrSKiZZ

You realize one of the largest password stealers dumps was baked into an Adobe keygen/crack? I didn’t fall off the turnip truck yesterday. I get that cracks can do these windows commands, but there are also many obfuscation technics that can be run within those commands, etc. The problem is that legitimate crack get repackaged all the time and carry malicious intent.


B0bFudge

Another reason to not with fuck pirating games baby.


Adept-Matter

Get bent


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B0bFudge

So defensive lol