Damn, its such a shame you can’t run a crack in a vm, or on linux via WINE and Proton, aw shucks.
giving root level access to russian crackers instead
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
and then run whatever modified code it just deployed to your computer on the native host
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
A game with a malicious crack that can escape a VM running on Windows and get to the main OS?
Sure, possible, but not by any means common.
A game with a malicious crack made for Windows that can… do anything nefarious when you’re running it on linux via WINE and Proton?
… Theoretically possible, but I’ve never heard of this actually occuring.
The same, but also inside another linux OS inside of a Bottle or Distrobox… or full VM… all running on a linux system that is significantly atomized with a read only core-os?
… At that point I am quite doubtful anyone is bothering to make a malicious crack that capable… when 99% of the existing game trainers and hacks that you can find or buy online… only work on Windows.
The crowd of people making game exploits and cheat engines… and the crowd of people making malicious game cracks… that venn diagram is almost a circle… and 99% of these people do not bother to ‘support’ linux, in anyway, at all, with anything they do.
Is using any random cracked software ever 100% safe? No.
But neither is say, using a Windows system, with 0 cracks or hacks… but with a MSFT trusted vendor’s 3rd party anti malware software… where said trusted vendor is allowed to push an unverified update to their kernel level anti-malware system… that is actually malformed, and then knocks out about 1/4 of every enterprise Windows PCs on Earth for 2 weeks.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Shh, the kids don’t want to hear about the dark side of free things (oh hey, a new Meta service!)
/s
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Over wine?
RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
If you go to the right sites you won’t get any malicious code. Stop spreading corpo propaganda.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
it isn’t propaganda.
it’s been a while since I’ve used windows, but I remember having to give administrator privileges to software installers, whether they are from legitimate vendors or from ripping groups with modified code
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Thats a windows thing so it can put files in “protected” folders like program files
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What’s with this anyway? A remnant from the single-user days?
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
There is nuance here. Not every crack is malicious but you have to assume they all are because some of them are. Trusting a source is irrelevant. Many security products will falsely tag cracked software as dangerous just because it’s cracked, not because it found a specific bit of nasty code, and this feeds the idea that you can’t believe when people tell you cracked software is unsafe. But there are many truly bad cracks out there. When in doubt, don’t trust it.
And you should always doubt free shit.