this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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[–] taco_ballerina 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] electroskunk 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chiptunes music plays as keygen opens with three more command prompt windows.

[–] Action_Bastid 21 points 1 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.

[–] henry_rowengartner 14 points 1 year ago

Its just helping you update.

Cheers

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[–] ndr 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] Action_Bastid 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds like coward talk.

[–] ndr 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] sethboy66 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] assa123 9 points 1 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 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ndr 2 points 1 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Look at me. I am the admin now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Genshin impact needs to be run as administrator