How Safe are really Games from Goat Websites? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 months ago by gemew26@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I recently created a post talking about antimalware software but after reading most comments I'm wondering am I really safe downloading games from Goat websites (of the megathread)...?

Studying is taking a toll on my savings so even though I haven't pirated anything for years and years, I'd love to get back at it.

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[-] gemew26@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

VPN is not important where I live, Malwarebytes absolutely, if the game is small I'd even upload it to Virus Total but I doubt I can in most cases.

Regarding torrents, seems solid. The only thing I would like to note is there are only two goat websites in the torrent section, there are more in the direct download section. I'm generally very careful, I doubt I got a virus when I was a teen. FitGirl is still a Goat source.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 9 points 4 months ago

Forget about Virus Total, most sophisticated viruses are no longer hidden in the main .exe but in some random .dll in some subfolder that's being called at some point throughout the game. You'd have to upload every single file to be sure, and that really isn't feasible in modern games.

[-] gemew26@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

indeed when they talked about virus total in my antivirus post, I thought what am I not understanding because I wouldn't consider it viable for games. I don't mind installing malwarebytes or kaspersky