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Is videogame the new channel to share virus and malware? It looks this is the risk when downloading pirated versions of Games of Thrones, https://www.pcmag.com/news/367529/pirating-game-of-thrones-that-file-is-probably-malware
Any experience with this?
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Paolo Beffagnotti
62 months ago
62 months ago
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Yes, or and now. Pirate games (and other kind of software) already existed in the 1980s and since then had been a source for viruses.
Patrick Henz
62 months ago
62 months ago
right, nothing really new with this. As illigal material it could be harmful. Games of Thrones is more a new trend for malware and virus.
- Paolo 62 months ago
Agreed, new technologies, including AI are less a revolution than evolution.
- Patrick 62 months ago
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