• @taco_ballerina
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    291 year ago

    I’m sure it was nothing. It seems fine? What was that noise?

  • Action [email protected]
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    211 year ago

    It’s easy.

    You don’t pay for your games in cash. You pay for your games by being an attack node in a hire4pay DDOS botswarm.

    The wonders of living in the future.

  • Drew Got No Clue
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    51 year ago

    You shouldn’t grant an executable admin privileges if you’re not sure what it does.

      • Drew Got No Clue
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        51 year ago

        LMAO I just don’t want to encourage people to open the sketchiest .exe they find online without a second thought

        • NiHaDuncan
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          31 year ago

          Be brave; live life on the edge like our OSes used to.

    • @assa123
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      91 year ago

      And you shouldn’t even execute something you don’t trust. The program doesn’t need admin rights to do harm, and there’s also privilege escalation.

    • @taco_ballerina
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      21 year ago

      Yes, this is technically true. However if you don’t run the executable you will not install the software. If you’re trying to install a cracked game you are going to have to put some trust in whoever released it. Up until relatively recently you couldn’t even use a VM since pretty much every game requires hardware acceleration.

      • Drew Got No Clue
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        21 year ago

        by the way, I haven’t encountered this personally, but some games have anti-cheat mechanisms that prevent you from running them in a hypervisor