>launch pirated game >cmd pops up for 1 sec

>>381004749
>echo:just pirating this credit card code, don't mind me :^)

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>launch PC
>cmd pops up for 0,5 sec after logging in

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>cursor has been doing this randomly

>lay down to go to sleep
>phone buzzes telling me my Steam account had a login attempt
>this has happened for over a year
lol

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>finish pirated game
>developers thanks me at the end for supporting them
I-I guess I will shill your game for free now. Was playing with my emotions part of your plan?

>>381005452
>Pirate a game
>Credits show the developers with their family
>Saying how grateful they are for buying their game
>Video of the director of the game crying saying thank you for playing his dream game that took almost his whole life to create
>sad piano music starts playing

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>pirate game
>"thank you for buying our game we are new developers trying to start out in games industry and it means so much to us"

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>Legally purchase a game full price
>Devs were so hard for DRM, the game crashes on launch
>Thousands of PC and PS4 players bitching about the same problem
>3 months later, still can't even reach the title screen of said game.
>Pirate the game and receive a letter from my ISP
>Finally play the game and it's mediocre at best

fuck you lords of the Fallen

>finish pirated game
>"thank you so much for supporting us"
>3 business days later I get a letter in my mail
>manilla color, everything on the front is in cursive written with blue pen
>it's a thank-you card from the developers
>has $5 and a banana flavored laffytaffy
thanks doublefine

>he has Office installed
>doesn't know about the scheduler bug

>Only pirates older games
>"Nobody even sells this shit anymore"
>Goes on the Internet for two seconds
>Steam and GOG sell everything I pirated
>oh
>Watches interviews with developers
>"We really hope everyone enjoys our game"
>huh
>Plays game
>So much care put into it
>huh
>Has plenty of cash on hand
>huh
>Reads about how hard it was to actually get people to invest in the game
> h u h
fuck me

>>381007226
Well, fuck Denuvo, rather.

>>381004749
>pirate a game
>final and only good ending is nearly impossible to get without connecting to the network

>>381007283
You didn't eat that laffy taffy did you? It's loaded with a virus used to convert pirates.

>>381010114
>the devs don't even get paid anymore and the money goes straight into GOG or steams pockets

H U H

>>381005738
Name literally ONE game where this happen

>>381005443
Same. Bulgarian fuckers will never guess my password

>>381004749
you must disable your antivirus protection - it's totally harmless

>>381004749
I don't pirate but the cmd thing has happened to me, when i turn on the PC sometimes for like a spit second. Antivirus doesn't pick up anything either.

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>>381004749
>click .exe
>it disappears

>>381011279
That one kickstarter game that the dude made for his kid dying of cancer

>>381004749
>pirate a game
>it's so good I sink 50+ hours into it
>buy it on gog and sink another 50 just to support them

>>381007226
>Pirate the game and receive a letter from my ISP

LOL NICE FREEDOM

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>>381004749
>download crack
>all your files are taken hostage

>>381010918
Nier automata

>>381004749
>pirate game
>launch installer
>it plays some loud ass music

stop this shit.

>>381011895
>pirate game
>enjoy it a lot and play it for 100-150 hours
>purchase on steam to support devs
>never touch it again

>>381007283
Whaaat? What game? Is that a real thing?

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>download Russian repack
>keygen music starts playing

>>381005362
FBI searching your harddrive for Captain Picard. Unplug your router and get some big magnets.

>>381012081
>2017
>not having a volume control on your computer

>>381011990
The letters don't mean anything

>install pirated game
>1972 atari """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""tunes""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" starts playing

>>381012437
>have to turn my whole computer's sound off because of an autistic hacker

>>381012085
this is the only way to enjoy PC games and if you don't do this you are wrong

>>381012238
>download cracked copy of a game
>follow slightly elaborate driver/setup instructions
>start game
>fucking buzzy electronica starts playing and a weird logo materializes onto the screen

It was just a little vanity move on the part of the cracking team and preceded the normal bootup, but I thought my computer was literally done for.

>>381005172
That shit keep happening with me. How the fuck do I stop it? Is it normal?

>>381011692
I don't think it's normal, check you autorun.

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>launch pirated game
>main menu screen has the cracker group's shitty logo plastered in one corner

>>381012085
This except the last two parts

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>>381013601
>game includes npc that scolds you for pirating

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>run OS and everything related on SSD
>turn off monitors and go to bed
>while in bed the HDD boots up

>>381007226
Defend your license rights before you get your internet cut off senpai

>>381012958
yes, it happens everytime you log in, or launch a game, it just usually happens so fast that you don't see it, it's supposed to be 'behind the scenes' if you're seeing it it means your computer is getting OLD

>be poorfag
>pirate game
>love game
>not poorfag anymore
>buy game

Feels good man. I'd buy games far more often if they weren't so overpriced.

>>381014184
>playing games
>mouse starts moving with inputs that arent mine
>freak out, think i got a virus or something
>disconnect internet
>its still moving with no inputs
>start every scan i can think of, still moving now and then on its own
>left my wireless mouse downstairs and my roommate was cleaning the table

>>381012238
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzYjRDkbiZs

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>put computer to sleep
>3AM
>wake up to fan noise
>my computer has turned itself on

>>381015017
>typing a paper
>put on the finishing touches
>take hands off keyboard
>typing continues without my input
>turns out I slipped and tapped a g key which caused the keyboard to autotype out a copypasta I had saved

>>381015240
what the fuck kind of keyboard autotypes copypasta rather than just pasting it

>>381015034
>>381012238
I fucking love these, occasionally you even get some non chiptune gems.

https://youtu.be/OyEusKu44wc?t=163

>>381012146
Some companies have shit anti-piracy detection, I remember getting some Telltale's games for free due to some promotions for buying and playing their games

>>381015639
logitech 910
for some reason long copypastas fuck up and don't paste correctly unless you make it auto type it out with a delay of about 3 ms

>>381004749
> shouldnotseeme.exe

>>381015067
Maybe it wasn't tired yet.

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>quit game
>icons on desktop quickly disappear and then refresh themselves

>>381015942
The clipboard is a part of your OS, not the keyboard anon
Something is wrong with your OS

>>381016013
I found out what caused it a whole year later. My retard cat likes to swat at my keyboard which wakes it up

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>Game.iso.exe

fuck pirates

>>381016119
>having a retard cat

>>381016095
no no. I can copy paste just fine. but the keyboard has extra keys that function via a third party logitech program, one of the functions let's me make a text block and bind it to one of these extra keys. And that doesn't copy paste, that auto types. I can still do normal clipboard functions though, it's just easier to use the text blocks for shitposting rather than going through the hassle of opening up word to grab a copypasta

>>381016331
it's my mothers, but she's too sick to take care of it so now I have to

>>381016335
Man, to have a life where I always need one-button copypasta on tap.

>>381016379
>have to

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>svchost.exe

>>381016386
honestly, half the reason I do it is because watching the auto type go off is rather entertaining. Sometimes, after I've written an essay I'll put it in a text block key and watch the keyboard retype it for fun

>>381016568
What a fucking life

>>381004749
>del *.*

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>>381011491
>Tfw 40+ login attempt in less than a week
I wish i was kidding.
I don't even have games in there yet these damn ruskies try it basically eveyday

>>381011491
aвe дaвe :)

>>381012585
>not clicking on the mute button that's right in the installation window

>>381012238
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9STiQ8cCIo0

>>381011491
Is it password?

>>381016807
They don't always have one anon

>>381004749
Is that really caused by a virus? I've seen it happen on a friend's laptop and told him to scan it cause of threads like these.

>>381016976
I haven't seen one that didn't in years.

>>381012081
>he doesn't groove to this on every install
Being a pleb must be hell

>>381014315
It was my first letter and I'm no longer even with that ISP anymore. It was just the kick in the dick that even after paying $60 +$25 season pass for Lords of the fallen that I was so hype for, the game was again, mediocre at best.

This is why I'm adamant about devs offering a fucking demo of their game. Let me play a random little mission. Just to see if the game runs right. Or looks good. Or plays well. But instead they release broken garbage and get around to fixing their garbage heap when they feel like it because they already have my money. If I see a game runs DRM, I don't buy it until it's under $20.

>>381016720
I hope ya have the double security thingy enabled on all your accounts, I was almost hacked two years ago and the only thing they could access was my rockstar account, but they couldnt change the password and they even linked their facebook account to it...

>>381016720
What's your password like? Most times you get so many damned attempts because your username is on someone's list.

hope your password is at least 14 characters long.

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>explorer.exe

What is it exploring?

>>381017197
fair enough. at least you have a kind-of a demo system with steam refunds.

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>Watch stream.
>Violin music starts.
>Close stream. Music continues. Close tabs, music continues.
>Close browser, music stops...

>>381016768
>aвe дaвe
hi dave?

>>381017323
>>381016720
This anon. Link your account to your phone or email so it requires a code. If the people trying to get in still manage to access your steam account, you're in deeper shit than you realize.

>>381017323
>>381017413
>>381017620
Yeah they cracked my password somehow.
They don't have my email though so it's alright for now i guess.
I'll probably delete the account one of these days though.

>>381017620
>Link your account to your phone
>giving up your freedoms

>>381016919

No.
You just press enter. Noone will EVER think of that...

>>381017502
good luck

>>381017762
Change your password you fucking moron

>>381017791
What freedoms?

>>381017762
Change your password and have some spare ones in mind, don't forget to use other symbols than letters and numbers too.

>>381018009
>giving your personal information to big data

>>381017197
This is why I prefer direct downloads, IRC etc over torrents. You're connecting to one address, not thousands that can also see you.

>Cleaning comp up for friend
>Notice his net is slow as shit
>He's seeding everything he's ever downloaded via torrents, easily 200+
>Its been running like this for months
>Tell him he should shut that shit off, but disregards
>He gets 2 letters in the same week for some shitty direct to DVD Disney movie he dl'd for a friend

Torrents are convenient but you can find everything elsewhere

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>pirate game
>scan it with Norton once it unpacks
>nothing detected
>mount it and install
>scan once done, nothing detected
>launch the installer
>disappears
>Norton quarantined it because of WS.Reputation 1
>restore it back
>Norton does the same thing for the game's .exe when the launcher boots it
At least it's not a joke unlike McAfee I guess

>>381018063
I want my account to be secure.

>>381017576
oh hi bob

>>381017810
>not using 4}LF◘16UEQW#HT‗I556B>K$m▀Ù┤Sgs447Õ╝○9G½oµo®Ê▲Ì as your password

>>381018210
>giving up liberty for security

>>381018116
norton has been junk since like 2003 and even then, the enterprise version was the only good one.

>>381017791
>Implying you haven't already given up your freedoms just by existing in our current Spying Utopia

Just give it up freetard. The fight for digital freedoms and privacy was lost. Companies have won. Just do what you can to minimize your presence on their radar.

My password is LIMD*jKHs4d$BYRAO7Vkvuy1BOb^#8leLl@BSpn%NH&Mesr!*KnMCKywSuW*QbTKyNDiG!TR@*pE*$eDaIZT4^tzUd8Oe*REG$hs

>>381018353
>Just do what you can to minimize your presence on their radar
Yes, like not giving them your phone number. Use a free GV number

>>381018284
What liberty?

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>look at process
>it disappears

>>381018454
Privacy

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>pirate game
>easy to install, nothing hard just extract and copy paste crack
>game starts, no problems no issue
>in game everything looks suspicious right like you would've bought the game but you didn't
>get to final boss, something is wrong
>devs put in a "fuck you" gimmick where the boss is invulnerable if you didn't bought the game, they knew you where a pirate from the start, now you can't finish the game and get the closure

>>381018493
Meaningless on a platform that asks for your email and credit card number.

>>381018069
Yea I never had luck with direct downloads. Torrenting was always the easiest. However it wasn't me seeding, it was something to do with the DRM not properly being blocked and it phoned home as soon as the game launched. Even with the program blocked in my firewall.

Same thing happened when I downloaded the movie The Equalizer. I had bought the blu-ray and the disc was scratched so it couldn't be ripped. Got an ISP letter for that too because it was a Sony film

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>Pirate a game that has denuvo but is cracked.
>Game is alright but nothing to write home about.
>Developer bitches about bad sales by blaming pirates and releasing updates with even more piracy blocking features which shit on customers.
>My face when..

>>381018626
If you get this in any game, you got a bad version or didn't crack it right. Even the couple of games where they supposedly have this shit I've never seen it.

>>381011491
I'm Bulgarian and there are South Korean and Indian pieces of filth trying to access my account on a weekly basis. Fuck

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>>381018626

>game is a cinematic experience
>just watch the ending on youtube

Infact

>just pirate the game on youtube

>>381018780
sounds like my playthrough of dai. its better than da2 but still shit. i played a bit of it but in the end it wasn't even worth the bandwidth to pirate

>>381018320
speaking of AVs what do you anons recommend? I'm currently using trend micro...is that good?

>>381018320
It is pretty trash, I'll find a better antivirus when I bother to upgrade my 2007-tier toaster

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>>381018626
>Those fucking black phantoms that were level 999 with crazy armor/weapons for playing Dark Souls 1 before it was meant to be released.

>>381019031
>>381019024

I've been using avast, but it's the "meh" antivirus so it doesn't give me stellar performance. I mean it's better than nothing, but still, if you got a good free AV I wouldn't mind taking the recommendation.

>>381018771
Theres 'release sites' like RLSlog, where groups post their .nfos about releases. Finding the exact name of the group release you want and putting it into any search engine usually comes up with links to throw in Jdownloader. IRC is much better and faster for new stuff and theres even search engines these days so they tell you the channel to go to and message to type to get the pack.

>>381012061
Really?

>>381019024
Honestly? None. I only use CCleaner and Malwarebytes Anti-malware. These are my only defense/cleanup utilities. If MBAM can't catch it, other anti-viruses won't either until it's too late anyway.

However if you feel you copy of Common Sense 2017 isn't function properly, Avast! is good. AVG is OK. If you don't mind paying, MBAM pro is also decent.

>>381018626
What game?

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>launch a game for the first time
>desktop icons get fucked up

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>download torrent of recent released game
>it wants you to log into Steam

>>381019417

Earthbound.

>>381019024
security essentials works well enough and isn't intrusive at all. run stuff like malwarebytes every now and then too though.

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>its a torrent from GOG

>>381019445
>launch game for the first time
>desktop is now 640x480 and 8bit color

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>>381019445
>launch game any time
>desktop and any open windows get fucked up and smashed into a low resolution
>this is AFTER they released a patch specifically for better resolutions
Fucking Terraria

>>381019482
Earthbound just freezes and deletes your saves when you reach the final boss though.

>>381019447
You didn't apply the crack you underage retard

>>381019352
oh... that's all you use?
I've always kind of questioned my av program, I mean, it's quiet and I like that I can save passwords with it and log in without keystrokes but honestly...I don't torrent or anything, I get all my porn from 4chan and other than that I spend all my time on videogame forums.
So it's not like I go to shady websites. That being said, I have disposable income so I'm willing to pay for the peace of mind I guess

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>setup.exe
>run it
>"Windows smartscreen has detected a problem with this file"
>Run anyway
>cmd pops up for not even 0.25 seconds
>after 5 seconds a progress bar pops up underneath another pop up stating "An error has occurred"

>>381013601
>pirated a game
>one of the splash screen videos is replaced by the repack group video
>play the game
>the intro video is also replaced by their group video
thanks corepack

>>381019447
>>381019676

>>381018389
thnx famalam hacking you 4chan account right now

>>381019447
this is usually because you didn't read and its a steam rip that isn't cracked yet

>>381011790
Name?

>turn on computer
>starts making a loud as fuck whirring and clicking noise
>freak out but decide to open the case
>loose wire was getting hit by the psu fan

>>381019024
Malware bytes run like magic
>got a virus
>scan it with Defender for almost 2 days
>got nothing
>install Malwarebytes
>it scan the whole computer for like, less than half an hour
>scanned 5 adwares
>purged it and now it's clean

>>381019997
That dragon cancer

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>Game audio plays after closing it

>>381020179
spyware and viruses aren't the same thing though they can seem like it and have overlapping features. you want more than 1 program to scan things. mbam is an excellent program but i'd still suggest something like security essentials. i've seen it nab stuff that mbam didn't and vice versa

>>381019739
yea I abandoned passive AV programs and suites a while back because they kept interfering with programs. Kept flagging legit purchased programs as malware. Even Sony Movie Studio kept crashing because it would ask for network permission to update and the AV would keep saying no.

And as you said, you get your porn from 4chan and mostly browse safe sites. Just use MBAM and if you're feeling generous, the pro version. Think it's like $50 a year or something?

>Start the game from cmd
>Actually get to see any output
Wow

>>381020491
Is that so? I still use Defender, but I was impressed by MB scanning speed and competency. And I was desperate enough back then.

However, MB did made my games runs like shit and made them stutters. I don't know why, It still does that even after I turned off the shield or whatever. So I uninstalled it.

>start pc
>it explodes

>>381020867
i don't run mbam passively, just security essentials. but whenever i know something is wrong or about once every 2 weeks, i fire it up and do a full scan.

stuttering can be caused because you might be scanning every thing thing that moves in and out of memory, its why most things that want to run all the time suck ass. turn that off and just be careful of what you do, but scan now and then.

>>381015067
Windows update maybe?

>>381021337
>>381016119

>>381021337

>he hasn't disabled windows update, only manually downloading security updates when necessary

>>381021186
Good tip

>>381021503
>Disable automatic updates
>Still updates by itself
Fucking windows 10

>>381012081
Are you opposed to fun in everything else too?

>>381017810
>hacker slams his baby hand on the enter key in frustration
>gets you account
watch out dude

Sea of Thieves is the only worthwhile pirate game to come out in almost a decade.

>>381021503
kind of hard since all updates for the last few months are in packs and not individual. they did this on purpose so they could shove telemetry crap in with legit security patches.

>>381019321
Kind of. To get the final ending you need to complete a bullet hell minigame and at the end it becomes next to impossible.

Over network connection you can then get more firepower, to make the section not totally insane.

Open your task manager

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>>381022173

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>watch porn
>blank window pops up for 1 sec

>>381004749
> Run legally owned game.
> Still open the task manager and closely inspect the processes.

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>>381022173
>press control alt delete to open task manager
>Your pc ran into a problem that it couldn't handle and now it needs to restart :(

>>381020219

monster hunter?

>go to website
>instead of expected page, get a page saying my computer might be part of a botnet
>google how to detect if computer is on a botnet
>PC crashes

video games

>try to torrent soldier of fortune
>get virus
>cant download anything
>set my homepage to yahoo
>just delete it
anyone know where i can find SoF 1 or 2?

>pc suddenly types weird random symbols when hitting space or unfocuses the window, making typing impossible
>sit down for hours trying to fix this problem
> can't fix it, say “fuck it“ and just play more console games for the next month
> months later remember this
> the problem is gone now

Whatever the fuck that was

>>381011195

I think Fargo still gets shekels for wasteland 1.

>>381008354
this shit bugged me for a week before I found the fix

>>381022648
You probably changed the keyboard region. If you change to Japanese, it will obviously type in japanese.
You probably changed it to some retarded country with a retarded alphabet by accident.

>>381022613
Buy a boxed copy

>>381022825
>£90 off amazon
NO THANKS

>>381022648
you switched the keyboard region on accident. i think the command to switch it is ctrl shift E.

one day my origin account name just changed to something in russian and whenever i try to change it back all the questions are in russian

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>PC randomly switches to different keyboard layout

>>381004749
>launch pirated game
>DO NOT SHARE BLABLABLA

>>381005443
There is someone who has been trying to change my playstation password for over a year now. He doesn't seem to understand how that shit works, because he'd need to access to my e-mail account first. It's just annoying.

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>somehow my auto click macro activates virtually rather than physically
>have to unplug keyboard

>>381022906
It's just alt+shift, idiot

>>381019321
It's designed to be extremely difficult to force you to use the accept help option which requires online. It's close to impossible without it
https://youtu.be/RnR0zXKIkvg?t=10m48s

>>381022613
Check isozone

>>381022928
FUCK
I WAS NOT WORRIED UNTIL NOW

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>>381016490

>>381023201
You can just hack the game with a shitty software like Cheat Engine and give yourself infinite lives.

>>381023136
You programmed a ghost.

>Start using mymathlab for a summer calculus course.
>Homework window sometimes opens in a new window other times in my browser
>Glitches the fuck out and opens a new homework window for a split second for over a week
Fuck this shitty site
Also fuck multistep questions

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>>381004749
>play single-player game
>network is busy

>>381021896
>>381023201
I'm curious. What if I just use a trainer or some sort?

>all these people who think torrenting and buying games are mutually exclusive
just buy the game if you like it, simple as that

>>381004749
>>launch pirated game
>>cmd pops up for 1 sec
?

I don't get it.

>>381023176
got one of the keys right

>>381023243
see
>>381023176

>>381023323
>>381023354
You can do that it's not like they meant to use it as an anti crack method. It's just there to hammer in the point that you can't do some things alone

>Pirate old as fuck game my gf played as a kid so she can replay it
>now every 30 minutes an 8bit old man walks across my screen and I can't do shit until he gets to the other side
>he walks slow as shit and takes 5 minutes to get across the screen
>delete the game
>old man still there

>>381005443
That's how they get those stolen games, fuck.

>Avira runs an automated scan/update
>Few minutes after it finishes, get a window popup showing files being transferred into some folders
>Can never read the directories fast enough to jot them down so no idea whats moving or where to

>>381023398
Oh... feel better now, it happens so rarely it must be that.

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>>381023227
> Guy doesn't want to get a virus.
> Directs him to Isozone.

>>381023551
You can also click the locale abbreviation next to the system tray

>>381023441
Which is stupid as fuck, and I have no intention of supporting such a scummy game that won't even be futureproof a few years from now, let alone 20.

>>381022462
Depends.
Any MonHon game have you fight Karkinos?

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>Old Bettys been running stable for 4 years now. Bsod on startup one day. Turn on and off. It works. A week later another bsod on boot, same story.

>Afraid to turn Betty off now. Leave it on all the time. Thunderstorm approaches. Fun times.

>Tfw when have to buy new pc, have the technical abilities of an old lady. Wtf is gsync...

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>svchost.exe
what is wrong with it? is it a virus?

>>381023568
What virus anyway. They usually tells you what version it is and what crack it used.

I downloaded Jedi Outcast and it's fine.

>run .exe of a cracked game
>everything freezes for a second the explorer.exe closes itself
>ctrl alt del doesn't work, can't bring up task manager
>force restart the pc
>no windows logo, only a black screen
>shitting myself for 5 minutes straight until the login screen appears
>everything is fine but still factory reset the windows to be sure
Almost died because I'm a filthy fag who doesn't do backups of his data

>used to download a ton of music
>now that I have money, I'm currently buying the physical albums because I like the cases
>easy because I can generally buy these in record stores or FYE
>rip the wav/mp3 files anyways to put on my phone

>emulate video games
>would pay for them if there was a way to play older titles without having to try my luck on buying expensive used hardware with limited availabilities that might not even work
>sites like ebay are plagued with vendors selling illegitimate copies of games anyways

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>>381018626
>Get to the last boss.
>This happens.
>Watch the ending on youtube.

>>381023740
What the fuck are you using IE on top of Firefox for

>>381023470
Screenshot that shit, so you can reach read it easy

>consoles back then can also enjoy piracy

Now that I think about it, pirated PS2 games sells like crack. Now I just burn a PS2 ISO to a DVD just to get a game I wanted.

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>close game
>press 'exit to windows'
>black screen
>'game has crashed, wanna search for a solution?'

>>381023740
neeegga

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>fans go 100% for a minute
>computer reboots itself
>now all my files are encrypted
>ransomware'd

at least I had a backup of my Anri collection.

>>381023372
It might be a rogue program/virus running in the background

>>381023628
It's okay, you weren't going to "support" it anyways.

>>381021729
Yea I'm looking for ward to it aswell

>>381023747
Last time I visited there, there pop-ups and pop-unders out of the ass, and they weren't blocked by my ad blocker.
But yeah. The files I downloaded were all clean, the site seemed to be infected by some aids, though.

>>381023628
Not really a scummy thing the whole game has online features that are supposed to be on for the full experience and that ending wouldn't have near the impact without the online part. It's not scummy to not think about something 20 years down the line outside your control. You can still experience the whole game without the online and the ending E is just literally credits and a short ass cutscene that you can look up or cheat through or you could get really fucking good and beat it without the online help which is possible

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>Game has unique anti-pirate method
How many are there?

>he doesn't send his error reports to microsoft

>>381024086
>pop-ups and pop-unders out of the ass, and they weren't blocked by my ad blocker
That seems to be the norm these days, pretty much every streaming website is like that now

>>381024086
remember to always use ublock origin + noscript, my nigga

>>381004749
on my laptop I've noticed like once or twice a year or some shit there's that old XP animation of transfering files from that old yellow folder, its really quick and disappears

what the fuck is it

>>381023867
But do you still feel satisfied?

>>381024134
None worth playing

>>381024214
>noscript
But modern web design uses so many scripts that noscript just breaks most sites completely, and I never know exactly which scripts to enable

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>>381023947
>fans go 100% while I'm afk
>well that sounds like someone is trying to mine some bitcoins
>it was hidden as some realtek drivers

>>381024293
Skullgirls had a subtle one where if the game detects that it is a Pirated copy, it'll display a nonsense sentence after completing the story mode (What's the square root of a fish? Now I'm sad)
People would then go online to ask about it, thus revealing themselves to had pirated the game.

>>381024476
>Witcher 3 is suddenly running at 10 FPS
>exit
>check what's using up my GPU
>it's a file in a CODEX folder called Steam.exe
That was pretty genius, I have to admit

>>381017432
your nudes

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>cursor randomly spazzes out and turns into a green elongated pixel mess when it tries to turn into the arrows that let you resize windows
>only lasts a fraction of a second
>doesn't always happen
>has been going on for years with no harm

>>381024476
>it was hidden as some realtek drivers
wat

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Ǫ̝̪P̯͉͉̝EN̥͢ ̖̤̕Y̳͍̼͔̼̩O̖̼̳̕Ṷ̥͉̥͕͘R̶͚̳̤ ̭̘̟̟̱̙TA̯̱͖͍̖S͓͈͕K̻̮͢ ̨͍̦͙̩̖̹͇M̜̹̱̺̞̣͟A̙̰̳̩̫͡N̬̻A̩͉̘̯̘G̖̼̳̗E͎̪̮̜͖͠Ŕ̤̞̬̠̙̙

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>>381004749

>buy a steam game
>directX installing again for the 100th time

>go to third world country
>most of the computers I encounter have unauthorized copies of Windows and full of pirated software, a ton of junk files and probably viruses
>afraid to log into anything
>don't even bother trying to clean it up as I'm not sure what the process is for cracked Windows and have only ever dealt with legal copies of the OS

>>381023809
>factory reset fix it
That's how you get unsuspicious botnet online.
Not even a clean reinstall on a new HDD/SSD would save you.

>>381024134
zools DRMwheel

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>>381024476
>download shitty game that was released 1 hour ago
>start .exe
>shit dissapears
>ok.jpg
>1 month later pc turns to shit
>svchost is a bitcoin miner
I was autistic enough to not understand i had a miner installed even after my graphics card hit like 90 degrees.

>>381024873
Why yes thank you Steam I was still missing Visual C++ Redistributable 2012 11.0.60610.1 in my collection

>after about 8 hours of my computer being turned on, 40 instances of Steps Recorder open

Why the fuck does this happen?

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>>381024873
>buy a steam game
>asks you to install DirectY

>>381023947
Is every Hard drive fucked, or only the one with the OS on it?

>>381025086
>Windows library system
Not even once. It's such a cluster fuck. I've had to install divers to use a keyboard that was a Microsoft keyboard to begin with. Switching usb ports? time to install drivers again, it's so stupid

>game that runs at a low resolution crashes
>doesn't change your monitors resolution back to native

>>381012238
Absolutely legendary
https://youtu.be/cmdprbBOMT8

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>Try start a game from steam
>It wont even start
>Look up answer how to fix it
>Devs suggestion on steam forums is to uninstall steam

This thread should be a lesson not to pirate games. Also remember to backup your files at least once a week

>>381015017

I once reinstalled GTA VIce City literally 6 times trying to fix this.

Whenever I entered the game my character would walk left by himself no stop.

I was getting ready to format Windows and try it again from scratch.

Turns out it was my flying stick that was tilted while connected and somehow GTA was the only game reading it's input.

>>381025209
I'd just like you to know that you're a little underage bitch if you think installing drivers is a big deal
Fuck, I remember how amazing plug&play was when it first appeared

>>381023740
backup and format

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>>381016490

>mfw I can only read this as SV CHOST for some reason

>>381025329
Just start the executable from the folder if Steam is the problem

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>>381025026
>svchost is a bitcoin miner
At least they fixed how easy it was to disguise this in W10 too bad you gotta use W10

> Two processes named firefox running.
> Turns out that's just mozilla trying some fancy new system.
It almost got me.

>>381025387
It's not a big deal, but you'd think such a "professional" OS like (Windows version) would be able to install drivers for shit I'm a single location, instead of one copy of the driver per location you put a device into. I'm criticising the way MS handles it, not the act of installing drivers
my devices work out of the box, no installation necessary, on Linux

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>accidentally click dodgy ad which starts a download

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>>381025565

>>381025559
Can't the elite group of hackers known as 4chan still simply disguise it as one of those sub-services?
>>381025541
Too much fucking around with the console in Source games, clearly

>>381025161
>buy game
>it actually finances greedy fucks ordering scarewares to be developed

>press the power button to turn my computer on
>it takes 40 seconds to start up
>I have an ssd

>>381025559
>I went to w10 because I have literal downs
Any programs running as a bitcoin miner will be using a fuckton of resources and are easily spotted. You have to be retarded to even get viruses anymore.

>>381025741
>You have to be retarded to even get viruses anymore.
That's literally who they're targeting senpai

>>381025648
>Download patch fix for a game
>Shady download website starts your download and gives you RSTFix.rar.exe

almost

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>>381025689
same dog, same.

>>381025856
>download a crack
>literally named crack.iso
something seems a little shady

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>>381025710
>Too much fucking around with the console in Source games, clearly

Holy shit you might actually be right.

>>381025559
>>381025741
>>381025824
I've had a bunch of svchost processes running constantly, which is normal of course, but one of them is like 193,000 K in memory. It's not using a ton of my resources, so I always assumed it was fine, and I don't really pirate things.

>Mr. DJ
>Fitgirl
>Codex

Any other safe uploaders, /v/?

>>381026040
>Fitgirl
>safe

>>381025732
May be Erp/Eup setting. Try to disable it in your bios.
For reference S4 is hibernation and S5 full shutdown.

>desktop icons flicker like something is installing
or
>windows randomly turns off aero mode for 5-10 seconds and switches back

happens all the time

>>381026065
Elaborate, please.

>>381025689
Doesn't Chrome open up a new process for every tab and plug-in you have, or something like that?

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>>381026030
Some of them are more resource intensive like superfetch when it's indexing new sectors

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>>381023442
kek screenshot please

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>>381026065
Oh...i might need to run a scan on my pc.

Goddammit.
>>381026167
probably a bitminer

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>>381026065
Fitgirl is cute.

>>381026167
The way he used that greentext is a shorthand way of sarcastically implying the opposite of what you're saying. Therefore, his point is that FitGirl releases are not safe.
Hope that elaboration helped

>>381026167
I'm sorry I'm the one to tell you this, but... She's infected.

>default search engine has been set to some weird Spanish google clone

>>381026321
That's Amelie.

>>381026321
Probably a dude.

>>381026239
>>381026239
Go back and never come to this board again.

>>381026270
i have downloaded several of fit girl repacks and i have nothing visible

>>381026321
Why do hipsters (I guess they're called nu-males now?) like this damn film so much? It's shit

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>>381004904
>>381004749

>>381019225
I use Malware Bytes, it does its job well for me.

>>381026203
Yeah, it looks like it's the AudioEndpointBuilder, hidserv (useless), IPBusEnum, Netman (network connections), PcaSvc, SysMain (Superfetch), TrkWks (link tracking), UxSms, and WlanSvc. No idea why Superfetch is constantly so high, but it's not THAT high, so whatever.

>>381023442
isn't th is the dos walker virus?

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>>381026321
>believing online avatars of manic pixie dream girls properly represent someone

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>>381026321
I recall someone mentioned in another thread that she was an overweight 38-year-old Russian, so probably closer to pic related.

Still a cute ol' lady though.

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>>381004749
>random numbers calling me multiple times per day
>when I pick up, they just hang up

>>381026641
>fitgirl is actually fat
what the FUCK

>>381026092
40 second startup happens in both hibernation and from shutdown

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Check your task manager

>>381026641
As long as she pumps out games that don't infect my computer too badly and help me save some space, she is fine in my book.

>>381026781
You can FIT a GIRL in her, like a nesting doll
Don't pretend that's not obvious

>>381026883
Fuck you nigger now my computer is kill

>>381026883
>yfw you realise a screamer virus is totally possible, and even likely

>>381026812
Just try to disable it, it may fix it.
Anyway 40 seconds is hinting a faulty PSU or motherboard issue. (or incompatibility from the PSU)

>>381024702
I have the exact same thing and it's easiest to reproduce on exhentai at the bottom of the page with arrows under the image

weird

>>381026912
>fitgirl is actually a babushka doll
what the FUCK

>>381022751
Same. I had this on a new clean install and tested every program i had installed in a week. And it always poped up every hour on the same minute si i had to wait an hour to see if it worked.
Fuck you microsoft for shitting on me that long.

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>>381027030

>>381026675
This happens too much with me.
They always seem really pissed off with this William guy, though. I remember a girl calling me and saying something like "William, I've been waiting you for the past 20 minutes" to which I replied that I wasn't this dude, and she just hung up.
Goddammit William, stop fucking up with your girl.

>>381027083
Matryoshka you fucking retard
Babushka just means old woman

>>381027065
I figure it's something that plenty of people experience, because the only game older than like 2002 I've ever pirated is Dead Space 3, but most wouldn't notice it because it goes by so fast. I have no idea if it's a RAM problem or what, but like I said it's been going on for years with no problems.

>quit game
>game quits before I even release the enter key
fucking PoE was slow as fuck to start tho but I have never seen a game close that fast

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>>381026883
Is that a Jojo reference?

>>381027329
>enter key to exit
Do you not have a mouse

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>go to task manager
>system is using 100% memory

aaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>381004749
Guilty Gear XRD does this pirated or not, that's just how they launch the game for some reason.

>>381027123
I had some fucking lady call me like 40 times over the course of 3 days from a hospital. She was probably crazy I eventually called the hospital the number was from and I guess she got the phone taken away because it stopped

>install trusted program, downloaded from trusted source
>it's loaded with bloatware

>>381027510
well what ever it has been long since I played that game. still I didn't even get to release the mouse click for it to shut down

>>381024476
>
>>381025026
>>381025026
>>381025559
How can I find bitcoin miners?

>>381027553
I'm running a core 2 duo, so that's always the case for me.

>>381027837
you will have heavy gpu usage

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>Buy game from IGGgames dot com
>7 Part download because fucking civ 5
>PC suddenly goes bananas and boots up my Music Player
>https://youtu.be/n0_IzFdPdDA plays at full volume at 3 AM in the morning


I cancelled the download just in case, but my nerves were already shot, holy shit

I gotta buy more ram dammit [currently at 2gb with a fucking i5]

>>381027925
>2gb of ram
how do you even live?

>>381027924
what program lets me see what my GPU is using the most in a nice list?

>>381027030
similar viruses were quite common in the 2000s. I had one that polluted my desktop with a smiley face that taunted me and opened up thousands of windows until the system crashed.

>windows security just randomly pops up asking if I want to let "unknown program" make changes to my computer

>>381027925
Why do you have your speakers on full volume at 3 am

>>381004749
>cmd pops up for 1 sec once every hour
>goes on for at least a week
>can't find anything unusual
>uninstall pirated Office on a hunch
>never happens again

Problem solved, too bad I have to use open office now.

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>watching some random fag youtuber
>his face stops
>creepy music starts playing

Then I just realized I had open some ost in another tab so the current video would pause automatically :^)

>>381027798
That's why you never chose express install.
There is always a toolbar or some other random shit.

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>>381028050
One tab at a time, friend
>>381028098
I didnt check, desu

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>>381023740
>NvTelemetryContainer.exe
>telemetry
>in my gpu

Now I dont want to update my drivers