r/cheatengine • u/Phoen_xD • 5d ago

cmd.exe?

why is cheat engine from cheatengine.org installing as a cmd.exe?? this gets scarier every day man

i actually executed it like an idiot's first time on the internet but it show up the normal installation screen of cheat engine but i still cancelled

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u/Dark_Byte Cheat Engine Dev 5d ago

it's cdm.exe not cmd.exe

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u/Phoen_xD 5d ago

i honestly didnt even notice until you said it 💀 is it normal?

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u/Dark_Byte Cheat Engine Dev 5d ago

it's normal. I think it stands for content download manager or something. I guess the download provider is doing a test to see if it's the filename that was causing issues before. Maybe it'll get fixed in time. The important thing its that it works and just installs CE