Are cheat engine tables safe?
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2023 6:40 pm
This has been bugging me.
I downloaded a table which was completely unreadable gibberish that opened a website and showed me messages, there was also a file it was dropping which was gibberish as well.
All these years we felt safe downloading cheat tables thinking it’s just an open text file and you can read it and understand it and it can’t do anything to computer. But I am really concerned now because this table is completely unreadable, can drop files and execute websites and I don’t know what other things it might have done in background!. What if there’s a bitcoin miner? Or something nasty it dropped. I have to whitelist CE to my antivirus and turn it off.
The scary thing is file monitors/process/network monitors or debuggers can’t read it. You can open any exe in a debugger and see the text but I don’t know how you can do this with an encrypted cheat table since it hides behind CE process.
Exes are not safe but I use mods from trusted few sources who have years of safety record and earn money charging for mods so they don’t gain anything from harming their paying users. But any random person can make these tables.
Can someone knowledgeable please let me know if my worries and concerns are true? Or tables are completely safe? And what is this sorcery they are doing, the table is total gibberish even has “LOL” in it but when I run it, it does those things I mentioned. I don’t understand how, is it protected with vmprotect?
CE installs really nasty malware if you’re not careful so this doesn’t alleviate my concerns at all. All the other mod programs I use you can install with eyes closed and don’t trigger my antivirus.
I downloaded a table which was completely unreadable gibberish that opened a website and showed me messages, there was also a file it was dropping which was gibberish as well.
All these years we felt safe downloading cheat tables thinking it’s just an open text file and you can read it and understand it and it can’t do anything to computer. But I am really concerned now because this table is completely unreadable, can drop files and execute websites and I don’t know what other things it might have done in background!. What if there’s a bitcoin miner? Or something nasty it dropped. I have to whitelist CE to my antivirus and turn it off.
The scary thing is file monitors/process/network monitors or debuggers can’t read it. You can open any exe in a debugger and see the text but I don’t know how you can do this with an encrypted cheat table since it hides behind CE process.
Exes are not safe but I use mods from trusted few sources who have years of safety record and earn money charging for mods so they don’t gain anything from harming their paying users. But any random person can make these tables.
Can someone knowledgeable please let me know if my worries and concerns are true? Or tables are completely safe? And what is this sorcery they are doing, the table is total gibberish even has “LOL” in it but when I run it, it does those things I mentioned. I don’t understand how, is it protected with vmprotect?
CE installs really nasty malware if you’re not careful so this doesn’t alleviate my concerns at all. All the other mod programs I use you can install with eyes closed and don’t trigger my antivirus.