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As safe as something can be from a pirate site, and you are willingly trust a random dude on the internet uploading shit.Am new here , Downloading games from page1 safe?
Keep in mind that since the middle of 2024 this board is plagued with *shared* updates from one or more bad actors. The infected games are using mostly RenPy own build in mechanics to infected your OS with a downloader for a data crawler.
That means, no AV scan can find anything suspicious before the game is started - the installer works often delayed and start to download things just after serveral starts of the game or after a certain timeframe is reached.
Unity and RPGM games where also affected in the past.
There is a thread with a list of the games that are tampered with, to install malicious software. The last wave of infected games has only affected the MAC versions...
Before you start playing something from here, I can only recommend you the following:
- Setup a VM or Sandboxie with no connection to the internet - the Guide can be found here.
- Use UAC on your OS to differentiate the privileges of your user accounts on your machine. In short - don't play anything with admin rights.
- Use
You must be registered to see the linksto setup your firewall to whitelist only. Is a little bit annoying at the beginning, but pays of fast.
- In case you use Windows Defender as the AV of your choice - what is fully sufficient - work with
You must be registered to see the linksfor better access to the rather hidden features that WD has built in.
- Something that should be obligatory, use a fucking god damn adblocker like uBlock Origin or similar stuff.
And as always:
You alone are responsible for the security on your PC, don't blame others for your decisions.
YOU decide to download random shit, on a random site, from a random dude -> deal with the consequences or don't download things.
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