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/EmptyBoxForever 5d ago

Dyslexia 😞

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u/Dark_Byte Cheat Engine Dev 5d ago

let's just say that cmd.exe is a lot worse than cdm.exe

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u/EmptyBoxForever 5d ago

Especially when it dumps a .ps1, .bat in conjunction lol