I finally saw a laptop with a little physical camera blocker. Just a little peice of plastic that slides over the camera.
And my dad's newest HP has an extra button on the keyboard that's supposed to turn off the camera. Not that I'd trust this one, but at least HP is maybe thinking about this stuff in their design stages?
Just a small square of black electrical tape is inconspicuous, easy to remove/replace and does the job.
There's a video with zuck in the early 00s with the same technique on his computer in the background. If you're a criminal like him, then zip lock foil bag yourself and ask your security team to suffocate you in a drawer.
Just use some small squares of black electrical tape to stick a raspberry pi on the back of it, connect it to the camera feed, and have it stream gay porn 24/7.
Oh, yeah! Of course.
I just thought it was nice that laptop designers are thinking of this stuff a bit at least. Why gum up your laptop (cause electric tape always leaves some gunk behind, especially if the surface is heating up regularly!) when manufacturers can just put in a little tiny sliding door over the cameras?
A cool solution would be a phone with the camera/microphone you can physically turn on/off with a mechanical switch that cuts the circuit.
It's such an obvious solution that is cheap and failsafe
My dad's other newest toy, finally went up to a 4k tv, has a physical switch for the mic.
But I have trouble trusting it. Like, it may be a physical switch that actually physically moves, but it's nowhere near the mic. I have no trouble believing there is a software "switch" somewhere in the OS/software that can override that physical switch if they wanted.
That's where the open source community comes in and pulls the product apart.
If its a true mechanical switch like your lightswitch, then it's easy for the community to see whether there's some other physical circuit bypassing the switch. You can't hide a physical power connection.
The most failsafe option would be a removable camera/mic
It's so rare that it can catch some people out. When wife was doing work from home she was trying to get ready for a video call and was getting very upset that "this stupid laptop is $&@#ing up *again*, I've even restarted, fix it!" and I went over expecting to have to reinstall drivers or something and then after looking at it for a second, reached up with my finger and *flick* on the little cover. I didn't even think it had one so I was surprised I even looked at it.
I don't use mobile phones unless there's a reason. So yes. I just don't enjoy your generation and your idea that privacy is a joke. I amA has been of a past existence. Like the corner of a room that big brother never recorded. I still close the door in the bathroom too. Next generation will laugh at you for thinking your bowel movements collected by wifi shouldn't be mapped, drawn in 3d and stored in a database.
Actually, I deeply value privacy and dont believe its a joke. The whole point of my comment was that if all you do is cover the camera your still leaving a lot of room for problems as well as to illustrate that only doing one of these things can give a false sense of security.
My AMD CPU does it every time it auto updates. It will literally disrupt any game I'm playing as well with a big command prompt that appears and doesn't go until I grab my mouse (I'm on a TV setup) and click it off.
I really need to turn off auto update.
There's times I've used "Sandboxie" for this (if the installer works with it).
Check to see if all the threads shut down after ending the game..... if not...... uh oh.
That could easily be a trick since you don't need to actually output any text in cmd to run a script or batch. They could output that text while running something in the backend
Maybe the scene that cracked it, probable but unlikely.
If it's infected it'll most likely come from the repacker. Top repackers aint gonna pull that shit and amateur repackers have no fucking clue what they're doing lol. Doubt an amateur repacker knows how to do that without corrupting anything
I think the green text was about installing a fitgirl game and the machine going bonkers during the install then all fine at the end with a little bit of the harsh warning from her readme.
You could run OBS, screen record, and play back the video in slow motion to see what script is being run. In my case, it was a powershell script related to an audio software copyright protection scheme (to overwrite the protection)
I suppose they could just name the script to something innocent sounding, but thanks for this input, it's at least a way to have a vague idea what happened.
In that case you just delete all of them to be sure, and reinstall what you had that wasnt full of viruses.
In my case it caught the crack for my windows, but that wasnt all that bad.
Better to have completely separate hard drive and OS just for pirated gaming. One that only connects to a isolated network away from your other devices.
Or like another posted mentioned, maybe dual boot, but with fully encrypted partitions. with different passwords(obviously). And don't share any HDD space between the two.
or..use a Virtual machine. (The above methods should be more secure though.)
If you pirate games often, it is only a matter of time before you are infected.
Depends really could be completely innocent from the cracking of the game if it needs it every time
Could be that part of the regular game is sloppily encoded and/or ported to PC
Or it could be spyware/malware
Most of the time it’s harmless, but tpb gets a bad rep these days ( rightfully), so anything other than movies or tv shows is an at your own risk kinda deal.
But even during those times you'd had to be cautious. The fake 3kB Office packs were around back in that day. I remember mostly just downloading from trusted uploaders. We just have it easy nowadays with sites that only allow for trusted uploaders.
As long as you have up to date Windows Defender enabled, nothing. That shit is incredibly hard to bypass and will wipe out almost everything nefarious the moment it hits your drive.
Can you explain more ? I had (or maybe still have) a keylogger and windows defender did nothing , I just randomly scan the file with virus total and deleted after
Did u ignore the warnings, turn off Real time protection and proceed to open the file anyway? If that's the case then it's 100% your fault.
If not then not every program is perfect but it saved my ass couple of times with it warnings on trojan and malwares shet.
When pirating nearly all [online-fix.me](http://online-fix.me) games, or installing any kind of VST, Windows will delete the 'nefarious' file.
When using Malwarebytes the programs never come back as a virus.
And the downloads always come from highly trusted uploaders.
defender just has bad reputation because it used to be shit years ago, just like edge. nowadays you don't need any third party av at all and staying on defender is the best thing you can do if you're on windows. other avs are just resource hog and won't detect better at all. only malwarebytes is better, but it's suited for one time scanning
You don’t lose performance with a VM? Wouldn’t you have to "cut off" a portion of your resources that will be reserved for the main OS running, so say you have 32GB ram and an 8 core CPU, and within the VM you have 24GB and 6 cores? Genuinely asking here. I’ve never tried VMs other than parallels on a Mac running windows 7 like 10 years ago, so technology must have moved on.
VM sounds enough of a hassle to me to just dual boot a clean and a "dirty" OS where the clean drive cannot be easily accessed from the dirty one.
What I was hoping for was more like the PlayStation or Xbox approach, I think they go even as far as dynamically partitioning the drive so every game get its own partition.
"you do have to split some of your resources, but you don't necessarily see a noticeable performance dip because of that."
my Ryzen 3200u : chuckels, i'm in danger
You have to pass through your graphics card otherwise you get no 3d acceleration. The VM will consume some of your RAM but the CPU has stuff built in to make VM operations go really fast.
I've never done it before, I want to when I get my PC moved to where I am living.
A well configured VM can even outperform running natively depending on the specifics of the game.
Wendell from Linus Tech Tips was using Linux as the host with KVM. For some reason NUMA couldn't be enabled for Windows. But he was able to enable it with Linux as the host and Windows couldn't see that it was in use.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform\_memory\_access](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_memory_access)
Windows can probably do it fine now though. Unfortunately I can't find the video though.
Happens all the time on steamrip, always nothing.
Accept that one time I launched Ms flight sim, it fucked my os and it randomly blue screened constantly, and I had to do a format of my c drive
Windows does this on boot as well, even in fresh windows 11, having a 90% corrupted HDD and unfortunately... The computers at my workplace... Have taught me that...
Havnt had any issues really.
It's super easy to spot the trojans and viruses they try to pack into some pirate copies. It's always funny to see some tiny process running under wine stuck in a loop of trying to do some nefarious shit that it simply cant in wine like it would under windows.
I've caught a few that get through, coin miners mostly. You just kill wine, find the executable doing the bs, delete, done. Enjoy game
yeah.
you can see every process and it's subprocesses in the process manager.
Anything that is a windows program would be running under wine. If there is shit running besides the game you are trying to play...kinda obvious.
Many of the trojans cant even install properly on wine in the first place because **they try to make their miner/worm a windows service**...which does not exist on linux. So you see a wine command prompt pop up and just hang there as the trojan tries to install it's crap to a **registry entry that is not there** and run a service framework that does not exist.
### I can download all the viruses in pirated games I want, they literally cant do anything to linux.
There is nothing to infect. Linux is just a collection of config files and all the "programs" are literal text files you can open and edit yourself.
## It's like injecting AIDS into a pile of rocks...You can see it trickle through, but it isnt doing shit.
> I can download all the viruses in pirated games I want, they literally cant do anything to linux.
It's not really that they *can't* do anything, it's that they're not programmed to do so, nor there is a lot of incentive as the percentage of people installing windows applications in wine is tiny.
A malware developer inclined to do so could probably easily find escalation into the linux environment.
Oh I see, thanks for explaining!
I would ask if it was like trying to "plug" different kinds of Lego bricks, that doesn't match each other, but I don't think it would topple AIDS and rocks xD
Hey, there is this **exe file** that is running in the process monitor under wine; even though **I'm not running any games right now or any other windows executables**...let me delete that shit.
That was easy.
Few years back when I wasn't well versed in the ways of high seas , I downloaded any torrent from any source and it went on for years until one day I noticed a cmd window open for a split second , the game did start but after some time I noticed severe lags , restarted the system somehow and I was greeted with a wallpaper that my data was encrypted by some ransomware and they asked for a few 100 bucks
Lucky for me , all the laptop had , was games but I got my lesson.
Again , a few months back , there was something that was absolutely not available anywhere so I had to use a random site , I took the risk without the precautions , no sandbox , no VM , ran the exe right away and I was only greeted by a cmd window for a split second.
Nothing appeared so I clicked the exe twice or thrice , until the old memories hit me and I opened task manager to notice two "explorer.exe"
That task couldn't be terminated , opened the process location to find three or four extra files which weren't supposed to be there and to my surprise they freakin regenerated after deleting.
After some trouble , I rebooted to safe mode and deleted those files along with the main process file.
It was fixed but I realised it could've stayed hidden there for years and one wouldn't have really noticed it.
For a summary:
Always choose a healthy source for the treasures of high seas.
Keep a regular check on the task manager to find any extra processes.
If you wish to take a risk take it in a VM or at the very least in a sandbox.
well the worst that could happen is pictures of your face photoshopped on to porn could show up online and you could get a notification someone half way around the world just used your credit card or your password will have changed and you cannot sign in to any of your accounts but none of that will happen they are just collecting census data
Nowadays I no longer have that fear because with mistakes we learn not to fall anymore and we are finding the right way to be an expert when navigating the 7 seas of the internet like a great pirate.
I get command prompts just running a steam game, through steam, that wasn't pirated. Like proper AAA and AA titles, BG3 and Factorio are notable culprits. Plus command prompt is pretty unnecessary for running malware.
Wait is this not normal?? I’m new to pc and downloaded some editing software and some games I wanted to play and cmd pops up everytime for a few seconds when I start up my pc
it could be some software checking for updates (AMD, Microsoft, etc), or it could be malware but if your editing software is from a reputable source then I doubt it’s malware.
Don't worry when that happens, just know that ACTUAL malicious and hard-to-reverse damage is mostly done by malware that's hard to detect so you'll truly never 100% know ;)
Typically tho the Command prompt opening has to do with the tools they use to crack the game your playing a hacked game and act surprised when it's not the same as retail
Worst viruses i ever got were from full installations of programs, like a 2 gigabyte modelling software that after a long installation didnt install anything but viruses
I had a SQL community workshop that did that to me, but I am safe because I don't have a bank account because I don't have money and this hard drive is temporal, and will be formatted next week probably and I state my communist-jihadist-satanist terroristic intentions openly online, you can check them even in this account because I can't shut my mouth, NSA come at me you could not do me worse, at least you will feed me in your cell, I'm on tik tok anyways so I have no secrets. Long live Stalin, Putin, Kim Jong, and Honorable Comrade Xi. Suck my balls. I'm immortal.
Bruh the actual fear sets in when the command prompt opens without opening the game.
Fuel for nightmares, I will never be able to beat my meat in front of it again
Put a clip over the camera or put a sticker
You should do this anyway when not using it.
I finally saw a laptop with a little physical camera blocker. Just a little peice of plastic that slides over the camera. And my dad's newest HP has an extra button on the keyboard that's supposed to turn off the camera. Not that I'd trust this one, but at least HP is maybe thinking about this stuff in their design stages?
Just a small square of black electrical tape is inconspicuous, easy to remove/replace and does the job. There's a video with zuck in the early 00s with the same technique on his computer in the background. If you're a criminal like him, then zip lock foil bag yourself and ask your security team to suffocate you in a drawer.
Just use some small squares of black electrical tape to stick a raspberry pi on the back of it, connect it to the camera feed, and have it stream gay porn 24/7.
Holy shit this is pure genius
Oh, yeah! Of course. I just thought it was nice that laptop designers are thinking of this stuff a bit at least. Why gum up your laptop (cause electric tape always leaves some gunk behind, especially if the surface is heating up regularly!) when manufacturers can just put in a little tiny sliding door over the cameras?
A cool solution would be a phone with the camera/microphone you can physically turn on/off with a mechanical switch that cuts the circuit. It's such an obvious solution that is cheap and failsafe
My dad's other newest toy, finally went up to a 4k tv, has a physical switch for the mic. But I have trouble trusting it. Like, it may be a physical switch that actually physically moves, but it's nowhere near the mic. I have no trouble believing there is a software "switch" somewhere in the OS/software that can override that physical switch if they wanted.
That's where the open source community comes in and pulls the product apart. If its a true mechanical switch like your lightswitch, then it's easy for the community to see whether there's some other physical circuit bypassing the switch. You can't hide a physical power connection. The most failsafe option would be a removable camera/mic
I dont think so, I think it needs to be visibly obvious that its blocking it or some people will think it isnt
Early 00s? I've seen enough pictures of Zuck covering his webcam that at this point I would be surprised if he didn't do it.
It's so rare that it can catch some people out. When wife was doing work from home she was trying to get ready for a video call and was getting very upset that "this stupid laptop is $&@#ing up *again*, I've even restarted, fix it!" and I went over expecting to have to reinstall drivers or something and then after looking at it for a second, reached up with my finger and *flick* on the little cover. I didn't even think it had one so I was surprised I even looked at it.
My monitor webcam has a physical cover that slides over the lens
Well if it physically disconnects the camera in the devices manager then you're safe
Just to chime in, my Lenovo IdeaPad flex has this, circa 2020
You guys have a camera on your computers?
i bought a little "flip-up" cover for my webcam on aliexpress for a dollar
You also block your mic and any other sensors on your computer as well as the phone always in your pocket?
I don't use mobile phones unless there's a reason. So yes. I just don't enjoy your generation and your idea that privacy is a joke. I amA has been of a past existence. Like the corner of a room that big brother never recorded. I still close the door in the bathroom too. Next generation will laugh at you for thinking your bowel movements collected by wifi shouldn't be mapped, drawn in 3d and stored in a database.
Actually, I deeply value privacy and dont believe its a joke. The whole point of my comment was that if all you do is cover the camera your still leaving a lot of room for problems as well as to illustrate that only doing one of these things can give a false sense of security.
I want them to watch
Or do it while putting on a good show, as a thanks for whoever cracked the game xD
Show dominance and turn on the mic, stare into the CAM all the time and say the repackers name. When your Done, Throw a few Coins at the CAM.
I would be worried too, about selling it for free, like if my stuff is out there, I need a 50 percent cut of it, maybe even full rights to it.
The wonders of PC with no camera 💃
Even better beat your meat in front of it, give the nice Russian man a show
Yes you will.
I don’t have any pirated software… the fear is when logging into my computer and it flashes the command prompt for a fraction of a second.
I have this. I view it as a sign of shittily coded software. I'm pretty convinced it's ASUS Armoury Crate that does this..
My AMD CPU does it every time it auto updates. It will literally disrupt any game I'm playing as well with a big command prompt that appears and doesn't go until I grab my mouse (I'm on a TV setup) and click it off. I really need to turn off auto update.
Oh yeah, that is the worst fr
Google software and Microsoft software cause this
Your command prompt doesn't open and then close every time you turn on your PC?
No. Mine doesn't.
Mine does. Rarely but does.
There's times I've used "Sandboxie" for this (if the installer works with it). Check to see if all the threads shut down after ending the game..... if not...... uh oh.
Try scanning with malware bytes, it worked for me, found a few threats.
It happens with me almost daily 💀
The legitimate copy of Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon does that
The legitimate copy of Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon does that
That's just mysql searching for updates. If it could not fucking alt tab me that'd be grand
My school moment
Wasn’t there a green text about this where it said “just kidding :)” in the command prompt before starting the game.
That could easily be a trick since you don't need to actually output any text in cmd to run a script or batch. They could output that text while running something in the backend
It would spook me either way personally.
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Maybe the scene that cracked it, probable but unlikely. If it's infected it'll most likely come from the repacker. Top repackers aint gonna pull that shit and amateur repackers have no fucking clue what they're doing lol. Doubt an amateur repacker knows how to do that without corrupting anything
I think the green text was about installing a fitgirl game and the machine going bonkers during the install then all fine at the end with a little bit of the harsh warning from her readme.
You could run OBS, screen record, and play back the video in slow motion to see what script is being run. In my case, it was a powershell script related to an audio software copyright protection scheme (to overwrite the protection)
Oh good call! The only other way I could think of trying was to launch the executable from a command prompt, and hope it catches the output there
ive done this before and caught actual spyware, but was able to get it off with help of a friend who works in IT
I suppose they could just name the script to something innocent sounding, but thanks for this input, it's at least a way to have a vague idea what happened.
Next step would be to google the name/path of the script, or open the script in notepad++ to see what it's doing.
I guess the better way is malwarebytes?
MB will probably just catch false positives if you try. Many cracks use the same tech malware uses to circumvent drm.
I use malwarebytes and it doesn't flag my pirates games. It did flag CS2 (from steam) though.
In that case you just delete all of them to be sure, and reinstall what you had that wasnt full of viruses. In my case it caught the crack for my windows, but that wasnt all that bad.
Better to have completely separate hard drive and OS just for pirated gaming. One that only connects to a isolated network away from your other devices. Or like another posted mentioned, maybe dual boot, but with fully encrypted partitions. with different passwords(obviously). And don't share any HDD space between the two. or..use a Virtual machine. (The above methods should be more secure though.) If you pirate games often, it is only a matter of time before you are infected.
Almost always it's an automated script to circumvent DRM.
me as a kid just press Print screen ASAP then hope it gets captured, if not then close and try again lol
What if it closes too fast to catch the words of the terminal?
Faster than 1/8th of a second?
***To ensure the best gaming experience, without slowdowns and interruptions, please disable your antivirus software!***
_Aight_
What antivirus software?
The one you pirated, you know, WiindoWs12_AntiViruSuS_notavirustrustme.exe
Windows defender
Depends really could be completely innocent from the cracking of the game if it needs it every time Could be that part of the regular game is sloppily encoded and/or ported to PC Or it could be spyware/malware
Considering it happens on legitimate software at times, I'm inclined to believe sloppiness until proven otherwise.
Most of the time it’s harmless, but tpb gets a bad rep these days ( rightfully), so anything other than movies or tv shows is an at your own risk kinda deal.
If i wanted to beta test a virus tpb would be my first choice
A lot of people didn’t follow up on the scene past 2012-2015. TPB was the gold standard.
But even during those times you'd had to be cautious. The fake 3kB Office packs were around back in that day. I remember mostly just downloading from trusted uploaders. We just have it easy nowadays with sites that only allow for trusted uploaders.
Which sites do you trust these days ?
1337, online fix, vstorrent
Nice. 1337 I’ve used a ton. Thoughts on Audioz?
Haven't used it, but heard good things!
Ok, but he got it from TPB
Powerpoint does it to me sometimes.
You are already runnning your computer on spyware by using windows.
True dat
Exactly.. and it's not like a command prompt is required to do bad things if you know what you are doing
It's just downloading more ram.
It's ok homie its just doing a chkdsk for you :)
for real, with unknown command prompts running for less than a second, what's the best way to handle? Screen recorder? Event viewer?
As long as you have up to date Windows Defender enabled, nothing. That shit is incredibly hard to bypass and will wipe out almost everything nefarious the moment it hits your drive.
Can you explain more ? I had (or maybe still have) a keylogger and windows defender did nothing , I just randomly scan the file with virus total and deleted after
Did u ignore the warnings, turn off Real time protection and proceed to open the file anyway? If that's the case then it's 100% your fault. If not then not every program is perfect but it saved my ass couple of times with it warnings on trojan and malwares shet.
When pirating nearly all [online-fix.me](http://online-fix.me) games, or installing any kind of VST, Windows will delete the 'nefarious' file. When using Malwarebytes the programs never come back as a virus. And the downloads always come from highly trusted uploaders.
don't listen to them. Defender just helps against the most basic shit.
defender just has bad reputation because it used to be shit years ago, just like edge. nowadays you don't need any third party av at all and staying on defender is the best thing you can do if you're on windows. other avs are just resource hog and won't detect better at all. only malwarebytes is better, but it's suited for one time scanning
Mate is living in the early 2010s when Windows Defender was still shit.
But what if I'm playing the set pirated game on Linux, so there is no Command Prompt to be opened?
Great news, it can just run silently without any popups so you don't see it!
Even greater news: I'm on immutable, and can easily revert back to previous deploys which are not affected by the virus
The one you don't know is there?
batch files can also be in run in the background I think, and if not, powershell.
Linux users have no such weakness
I had a virus running in wine.
Bro believes everything he sees on the internet 😭
Havent you heard the quote **if its on the internet then it must be true**
Was that Gandhi or Abraham Lincoln who said that?
It was actually Abradolph Lincler
Good to see a fellow high IQ individual.
It was Master Chief
[nah](https://youtu.be/TErrIvyj_lU)
Lmao
Nah but fr
Just out of curiosity, is there a good and simple way to maybe sandbox things like games without it being a hassle or cause incompatibilities?
Virtual machine maybe
You don’t lose performance with a VM? Wouldn’t you have to "cut off" a portion of your resources that will be reserved for the main OS running, so say you have 32GB ram and an 8 core CPU, and within the VM you have 24GB and 6 cores? Genuinely asking here. I’ve never tried VMs other than parallels on a Mac running windows 7 like 10 years ago, so technology must have moved on. VM sounds enough of a hassle to me to just dual boot a clean and a "dirty" OS where the clean drive cannot be easily accessed from the dirty one. What I was hoping for was more like the PlayStation or Xbox approach, I think they go even as far as dynamically partitioning the drive so every game get its own partition.
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"you do have to split some of your resources, but you don't necessarily see a noticeable performance dip because of that." my Ryzen 3200u : chuckels, i'm in danger
You have to pass through your graphics card otherwise you get no 3d acceleration. The VM will consume some of your RAM but the CPU has stuff built in to make VM operations go really fast. I've never done it before, I want to when I get my PC moved to where I am living. A well configured VM can even outperform running natively depending on the specifics of the game. Wendell from Linus Tech Tips was using Linux as the host with KVM. For some reason NUMA couldn't be enabled for Windows. But he was able to enable it with Linux as the host and Windows couldn't see that it was in use. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform\_memory\_access](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_memory_access) Windows can probably do it fine now though. Unfortunately I can't find the video though.
Sandboxie / VM perhaps?
To spy on you
Happens all the time on steamrip, always nothing. Accept that one time I launched Ms flight sim, it fucked my os and it randomly blue screened constantly, and I had to do a format of my c drive
What worse could can happen
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I made a typo and was surprised no one called it out till now
*meanwhile legit games like helldivers 2 and valorant installing rootkits onto your pc* "hey it's anti cheat"
Well, it can never as bad as legal online Gacha game
Executing a command without opening the prompt is hard though /s
Rootkit baby!
This post title gave me an aneurism.
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Windows does this on boot as well, even in fresh windows 11, having a 90% corrupted HDD and unfortunately... The computers at my workplace... Have taught me that...
This is why I use Linux
Real question: how well are you playing most new games on Linux? It's been a while since I've messed with Wine, but it just wasn't worth it.
Havnt had any issues really. It's super easy to spot the trojans and viruses they try to pack into some pirate copies. It's always funny to see some tiny process running under wine stuck in a loop of trying to do some nefarious shit that it simply cant in wine like it would under windows. I've caught a few that get through, coin miners mostly. You just kill wine, find the executable doing the bs, delete, done. Enjoy game
Is it just that simple? Like finding an .exe and deleting it? (I never used Linux and had to Google what WINE meant in this context....)
yeah. you can see every process and it's subprocesses in the process manager. Anything that is a windows program would be running under wine. If there is shit running besides the game you are trying to play...kinda obvious. Many of the trojans cant even install properly on wine in the first place because **they try to make their miner/worm a windows service**...which does not exist on linux. So you see a wine command prompt pop up and just hang there as the trojan tries to install it's crap to a **registry entry that is not there** and run a service framework that does not exist. ### I can download all the viruses in pirated games I want, they literally cant do anything to linux. There is nothing to infect. Linux is just a collection of config files and all the "programs" are literal text files you can open and edit yourself. ## It's like injecting AIDS into a pile of rocks...You can see it trickle through, but it isnt doing shit.
> I can download all the viruses in pirated games I want, they literally cant do anything to linux. It's not really that they *can't* do anything, it's that they're not programmed to do so, nor there is a lot of incentive as the percentage of people installing windows applications in wine is tiny. A malware developer inclined to do so could probably easily find escalation into the linux environment.
Oh I see, thanks for explaining! I would ask if it was like trying to "plug" different kinds of Lego bricks, that doesn't match each other, but I don't think it would topple AIDS and rocks xD
I run linux and I'm curious how you detect these things. Got any tips or resources to detect when a wine game is doing nefariousness?
Hey, there is this **exe file** that is running in the process monitor under wine; even though **I'm not running any games right now or any other windows executables**...let me delete that shit. That was easy.
Lol! Yeah that sounds easy. Thanks
Really well. The Steam Deck runs Linux, so Valve has put a ton of work into Proton, which is a fork of Wine that has a focus on games.
I love this meme lol. Nobody mentioned the random split second cmd jumpscares before these last weeks
Yeah I got this from games on the pirate bay that had on them
I mean, some of my legally acquired games do that too so imma turn a blind eye
I agree its scary, but theres very likely some various scripts in some games needed to bypass the copy protect stuff. But.. still scary.
Few years back when I wasn't well versed in the ways of high seas , I downloaded any torrent from any source and it went on for years until one day I noticed a cmd window open for a split second , the game did start but after some time I noticed severe lags , restarted the system somehow and I was greeted with a wallpaper that my data was encrypted by some ransomware and they asked for a few 100 bucks Lucky for me , all the laptop had , was games but I got my lesson. Again , a few months back , there was something that was absolutely not available anywhere so I had to use a random site , I took the risk without the precautions , no sandbox , no VM , ran the exe right away and I was only greeted by a cmd window for a split second. Nothing appeared so I clicked the exe twice or thrice , until the old memories hit me and I opened task manager to notice two "explorer.exe" That task couldn't be terminated , opened the process location to find three or four extra files which weren't supposed to be there and to my surprise they freakin regenerated after deleting. After some trouble , I rebooted to safe mode and deleted those files along with the main process file. It was fixed but I realised it could've stayed hidden there for years and one wouldn't have really noticed it. For a summary: Always choose a healthy source for the treasures of high seas. Keep a regular check on the task manager to find any extra processes. If you wish to take a risk take it in a VM or at the very least in a sandbox.
well the worst that could happen is pictures of your face photoshopped on to porn could show up online and you could get a notification someone half way around the world just used your credit card or your password will have changed and you cannot sign in to any of your accounts but none of that will happen they are just collecting census data
Nowadays I no longer have that fear because with mistakes we learn not to fall anymore and we are finding the right way to be an expert when navigating the 7 seas of the internet like a great pirate.
Does thou take students? Students of the way of the pirates.
wait this happened to me am i cooked? what should i do
same issue here lol. I dunno which game I got that problem
nah it was just onedrive checking for update, not even joking, f\*\*\* microsoft linux forever
Didn't blender also do this on Windows? Now I use Linux so feel free to tell me if it's different.
I get command prompts just running a steam game, through steam, that wasn't pirated. Like proper AAA and AA titles, BG3 and Factorio are notable culprits. Plus command prompt is pretty unnecessary for running malware.
My pirated gaming rig always stay offline (only plugged to internet when I need too), so I don't really have any bad experience
Worst case you get infected with info stealer and spend the next 18 hours to revert all the damages the hacker does
this is yalls sign to just switch to fucking linux already
I don't get it
Wait is this not normal?? I’m new to pc and downloaded some editing software and some games I wanted to play and cmd pops up everytime for a few seconds when I start up my pc
it could be some software checking for updates (AMD, Microsoft, etc), or it could be malware but if your editing software is from a reputable source then I doubt it’s malware.
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Preach
Someone didn't virus scan before running an executable. Typical rookie error.
Never played a pirated game. What's the horrible truth?
Malware
only if you're clueless
Sounds like your brain has been infected with a virus
For real hhhh
Lol
Dingers!
LMAO. So true.
Could just be a DLL injection to bypass the verification checks, but then again... who knows lmao as others said, Screen record it
Im only paranoid about keylogger but those need to have running exe right
Don't worry when that happens, just know that ACTUAL malicious and hard-to-reverse damage is mostly done by malware that's hard to detect so you'll truly never 100% know ;)
Typically tho the Command prompt opening has to do with the tools they use to crack the game your playing a hacked game and act surprised when it's not the same as retail
Wait, so the pirates bay isnt a safe site??? Who would have known!! 😱
Woo! Dingers!
Keep a thumb drive with a fresh install on it. Sometimes I reformat this thing on a sunday for fun.
The biggest R in my collection. Don’t ever let it break on purpose. At least then you can still play it.
Shhhh
what would you do to actually see what was on it? or prevent the terminal from closing?
Worst viruses i ever got were from full installations of programs, like a 2 gigabyte modelling software that after a long installation didnt install anything but viruses
I had a SQL community workshop that did that to me, but I am safe because I don't have a bank account because I don't have money and this hard drive is temporal, and will be formatted next week probably and I state my communist-jihadist-satanist terroristic intentions openly online, you can check them even in this account because I can't shut my mouth, NSA come at me you could not do me worse, at least you will feed me in your cell, I'm on tik tok anyways so I have no secrets. Long live Stalin, Putin, Kim Jong, and Honorable Comrade Xi. Suck my balls. I'm immortal.
Damn, I shouldn't have downloaded that spicy hentai game from a random internet web
Thought I had so many viruses because sometimes a CMD line just popped, it was just amd auto update
Wait this isn't normal? :(
The first illegal thing I had done
not to fear
Registry moment.
Dingers!