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Safest way to run pirated games? (lemmy.getmeotter.work)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's best practice to safely play pirated games on Linux? Looking to mitigate potentially malicious executables from wrecking havoc on my system.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Maybe times have changed but when I was in the warez scene 25+ years ago and essentially pirated every game I played, I saved all those games and the keygen.exe files and when they get scanned by modern AV they all come back infected. If anything it's different because viruses are pointless now with the internet and there are much broader malware injection points nowadays than the minimal game pirating scene. But yeah I don't know what I'm talking about, just my historical POV.