Is MBAM better, or is microsoft defender enough if you download from trusted sources?

Do you consider Nyaa safe? (I’d like to get a visual novel or two that I haven’t purchased on steam yet)

Regarding other games, I always used pirate bay and I’ve been fine, 10 years ago though. Are the website listed in the wiki generally safe?

  • Yuki@kutsuya.dev
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    7 months ago

    To be honest, common sense is the best form of security. If you don’t trust something, either run it in a VM, or don’t run it at all.

    To answer your question, Microsoft defender should be plenty.

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      7 months ago

      Virtual Machines are not a good way to test if something has malware. Most viruses are programmed to not do anything if they detect that they’re being ran in a VM.

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        7 months ago

        Did they say to test it in a vm? It looks to me like they’re saying to run it in a vm since it’s untrusted

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          7 months ago

          Yes but in a VM you have to make sure you PASSTHROUGH a GPU. Maybe OP can execute games by another user without privileges. Like execute app as not admin, or user.

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      7 months ago

      I would add increasing the UAC or just not using an admin account, if your on windows, is also a very effective way to keep yourself safe as it will prevent a lot of malicious programs from automatically elevating their permissions.

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      7 months ago

      regarding websites, I never had troubles with TPB on Windows 7, how are the ones listed in the megathread considered?

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        Well, first of all you really should not be using Windows 7 anymore. For the TPB, I don’t think they check the torrents, anyone can upload so it’s not a trusted source. It’s in the unsafe sites list on the megathread. And how would you know that you never had a malware on the TPB?

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          7 months ago

          I stopped using win 7 2 years go when I got a new PC (I know it was late, but I never needed it before). So even the ones in the megathread are unsafe?

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            7 months ago

            Not really. They are safe, specially the ones marked with a goat sign.

            Though that said, i HIGHLY recommend setting up the security tips mentioned at the top of the megathread. As a casual pirate, they’ve been more than enough for me.

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              7 months ago

              do you mean this “Not so fast sailor! Do this first” suggestions, like using VPN and such? (witch is useless where I live, I never heard of any legal troubles tbh)

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      Yes and No. You should be able to set some GroupPolicies, and execute games by that type of policies like Application Guard. (Search GPO).

      Application Guard is a security feature that isolates untrusted applications in a separate container, so if an attacker does manage to exploit a vulnerability, they’ll be contained and prevented from doing any further damage.