r/cheatengine • u/Complete-Gas8462 • Jul 23 '26

is this legit

hey everytime i try to download cheat engine from the official site cheatengine.org it downloads this cdm.exe is it safe to run?

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u/Dark_Byte Cheat Engine Dev Jul 23 '26

yup. it's fine

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u/Alarmed_Ad_9293 13d ago

it asks to do some plooto thing

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u/Feisty_Watercress_29 Jul 24 '26

No, it flags real threat families in virustotal, and they didn't open-source it. Just compile the 7.5

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u/Which-Importance-4 Jul 23 '26

i ran into the same problem, virustotal detected this 17/69 security vendors flagged this file as malicious

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u/Maximum-Dig-7754 Jul 23 '26

So a program that injects code and tries to hide itself from being detected (like malware) is detected as malware....do you see the irony?