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This is why you use https://virustotal.com/ to check the EXEs and DLLs before you launch the game.
Is that legit?
The site is legit, but it only matches against AV provider databases. In other words it only detects known viruses and malicious URLs
I think some of the engines use heuristic detection methods as well but of course it's mostly a tool to detect known viruses using pretty much all the scanners available on the market.