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- If you are about to have sex with an extremely sketchy stranger you just met behind a dive bar, use a condom
- If you are about to open an extremely sketchy download you just torrented off a link on Dread, use a VM
VMs have vulnerabilities, if you really want to be safe use a dedicated air-gapped pc, or don’t run it at all.
Funny thing some malware checks if your hardware is virtualized. It is a bit tough to make a VM appear legit, so I tend to use a sacrificial laptop I have for this kind of work.
Your advise is good as it will tell you if the thing is real but the malware might not trigger.
Add to this, use Linux when dealing with sketchy things that you downloaded from sketchy places. If you configured it correctly, it won’t be too difficult to undo any potential issues
What about Linux is easier than a similarly prepped windows device?
Unless it’s changed recently, windows you just need to press a button during load (like bios) to boot into safe mode. And from there you can reload a variety of “snapshots” to recover from most malware issues.
How is Linux easier than that, I don’t use Linux, but windows is incredibly simple already.
Boot into windows safe mode and load a recovery image? Are you implying that it’s somehow difficult on windows just to bash them?
Hahaha,remind me of the good old times
“no one knows weather”
uhm theres a weather app on my phone right now and I can also just look outside the window…
I wouldn’t be surprised if Rockstar is seeding the malware so people don’t trust the inevitable cracked game…
The leakers don’t just have footage, they have a playable build. One that appears mostly finished and in a relatively playable state. If it was before security stuff was added in, there may be no way to stop people from using it in single player, or even possibly using future versions of this build to cheat.
I didn’t realize how big of a deal this might be till this morning, I thought they just had footage that was about to be released, but this could end up costing rockstar billions in dollars.
Isn’t this a federal crime?
givessomefucks’ entire job on Lemmy is to spout absolute unhinged nonsense when they have no idea what they’re talking about – but to say it authoritatively enough that people believe them and to never go on the defensive when called out.
It’s completely insane.
I had no idea it expanded past their rant on how the dnc is improving AND any evidence to the contrary is just neoliberal propaganda
Oh yeah, most likely
Oh no, you’re right…
A billion dollar corporation would never commit a crime to maximize profits, obviously the swift hand of capitalism and federal regulations under Donald fucking trump would prevent any corporation from ever committing a crime.
I can’t believe I was that naive, thank you soooooooo much for reminding that a corporation would neeeeeeever commit an illegal act.
Whew…
I feel so much better now.
Guess they should release it on PC before we all just grab the hacked version