Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com gemew26 @lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 mo. ago

Is Microsoft Defender enough to get games? Also, regarding websites

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?

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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.
- 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.
  
  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
- 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.
- regarding websites, I never had troubles with TPB on Windows 7, how are the ones listed in the megathread considered?
  
  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?
- 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.
Pirated apps are one of the top source for botnet operators to infect new machines and add them to their network. Try not to run any pirated app or game if you can, but if you can't avoid it, get it from trusted sources (e.g. directly from the cracker's homepage), not from random sources like TPB where anyone can upload anything.
- ofc I can buy it in steam or something, but I'd prefer to pirate. Are the websites in the megathread unsafe?
  
  It's generally safe, but doesn't mean it's bulletproof as sites has been removed from the megathread in the past when they suddenly serve malwares or miners. Just use your common sense when downloading apps and games and scan them before installing.
I think if it was enough, we wouldn't have viruses, as Microsoft Defender is enabled by default. I wouldn't rely much trust on it.
- I'm going to install mbam in the future
Isn't CPG repacks in the megathread? It has visual novels
Considering the majority of malware we have to deal with nowadays, your best defenses are:

A firewall that blocks everything by default. I use SimpleFirewall and give trust on a per executable basis.

uBlockOrigin, because dear lord navigating some sites is almost impossible without blocking all that shit

Avoid anything that asks for admin access

Keep an eye on resource usage and be on the lookout for any weird looking processes.

There was one time I downloaded a piece of shit that started to encrypt my drive. Since the CPU fan started spinning loud, I immediately checked task manager, figured what was going on and ended the malicious root process. Next, it was time to scour my folders, especially inside %appdata%, for any possible leftover executables. All clean, restart PC, everything was fine. I lost a couple of files, but nothing personal, just other downloads.
- ublockDefender
  
  is this a new one? last Iheard gorhill was working on ublock origin
  
  Ops, my bad, fixed
I've had great coverage a d low resource utilization with eset

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