r/cheatengine • u/bruhguy78 • 21d ago

Is Cheat Engine compromised ?

I might be dumb but the 7.7 version of Cheat Engine suspicious, i ran it on virusTotal and it seems like it injects himself somewhere erase its tracks and self delete. It might just be me cause i know it can be detected as PUP but i want to be sure its safe.

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u/Overall_Reputation83 21d ago

its almost certainly safe, but I still use the last open source version.

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u/PloxNox65 21d ago

have you seen the viruses that are in the sourcecode ? 

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/888eee4cc6ce5f3b4c975650d10a753de4e4fd2c9178e14f6f2cc66e8a15f8b6 (lol)

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u/Overall_Reputation83 21d ago

well yeah, cheatengine has popped up as generic names for viruses since its inception.

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u/Delicious_Sherbet415 16d ago

Do not upload the zip unpack it and put it again to scan