Warning to the admins about this program: Cheat Engine

MaikuTech

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https://www.techspot.com/downloads/6231-cheat-engine.html
I downloaded this last thursday night to update my cheat engine.
The installer provided from the official site has malware known by Chromium.
Thankfully malwarebytes was able to pick it up and get rid of 300 infections and some nasty rootkits by it.
Will you all atleast take a moment to reverify things you all get from official or third party affiliate sites to post in your domain ?

Oh yeah during the installation, that would be programmers made it an option to not avoid the ****-ware attempt.
 
Thanks for the report. We looked into this in January 1 and made changes to the download entry to better reflect what's going on to users.

In a nutshell, it appears Cheat Engine is clean/safe, however because of the program's nature (it modifies files/memory), it is detected by many AV/antimalware programs but that's a false positive.
 
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