Yes and no. If the VM has network access you can still royally fuck yourself. Also, it’s possibe your virtualisation software has a vulnerability—that way it may still infect your host machine.
More often than not VMs may protect you, but it’s no guarantee.
If you don’t know how to safely pirate games or indeed any media in 2024, it’s 100% because you don’t know where/how to look.
I recommend starting at the aptly named Free Media Heck Yeah. It started as a project on Reddit piracy and internet freedom forums but is now a gigantic independent repository of all kinds of free media.
You’ll get a lot of false positives, but generally you really don’t need to worry if you aren’t on some shady Russian site call xxxfreegamesxxx or some shit
Pirating games is too risky these days. Malware has become terribly dangerous.
Not if you know where to look and get stuff from trusted sources.
Where would you suggest?
Asking for a friend
r/piratedgames megathread. I’m not sure it is to be found on lemmy.
Free Media Heck Yeah is amazing.
Wow. This site is incredible! Thank you!
You’re so very welcome!
Well you’re not wrong about the risk, but…
use virtual machines
Use backups.
Problem solved.
Yes and no. If the VM has network access you can still royally fuck yourself. Also, it’s possibe your virtualisation software has a vulnerability—that way it may still infect your host machine.
More often than not VMs may protect you, but it’s no guarantee.
If you’re that paranoid I don’t know why you’re running an executable whose source code you haven’t checked in the first place.
Or even connecting to the Internet in the first place.
Or even turning a computer on in the first place
Or even accepting electricity from outside your home in the first place.
Or waking up in the first place.
Come to think of it, allowing yourself to be born is hella risky…
When do you think this is? The early 2000s?
If you don’t know how to safely pirate games or indeed any media in 2024, it’s 100% because you don’t know where/how to look.
I recommend starting at the aptly named Free Media Heck Yeah. It started as a project on Reddit piracy and internet freedom forums but is now a gigantic independent repository of all kinds of free media.
That’s why you scan the archive before installing it.
You’ll get a lot of false positives, but generally you really don’t need to worry if you aren’t on some shady Russian site call xxxfreegamesxxx or some shit
Nice try Ubisoft.
Skill issue
Someone asked what the most out of touch comment in a thread like this could be.