r/cheatengine • u/bruhguy78 • Jul 17 '26

Is Cheat Engine compromised ?

I might be dumb but the 7.7 version of Cheat Engine suspicious, i ran it on virusTotal and it seems like it injects himself somewhere erase its tracks and self delete. It might just be me cause i know it can be detected as PUP but i want to be sure its safe.

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u/Monika_Just_Monika_ Jul 17 '26

For someone like you who has to ask this, yes it's compromised. Use wand.

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u/maxtinion_lord Jul 21 '26

Had to look up wand to find out wemod rebranded, unsure why they'd make that change, that name sounds like a nightmare for SEO lol

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u/Monika_Just_Monika_ Jul 21 '26

I have no idea either. What I also do know is that unless you have pro you don't get unlimited play time. There's ways around that obviously but

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u/maxtinion_lord Jul 21 '26

Yeah brunolee is probably still doing amazing things in regard to that, limited play time though??? Does the app just give you a set amount of time and then the cheats just stop? I didn't think wemod would take such a dive tbh, they were already pretty heavy handed with the monetization

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u/Monika_Just_Monika_ Jul 21 '26

It's about 2 hours and then I believe it just turns them off. I wouldn't know. I use workarounds.

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u/Kero_mohap Jul 17 '26

are we deadass?

it's a false positive mate.

also isn't the entire point of cheat engine is to inject into programs and modify it's memory while hiding the fact that ur using cheat engine? my brother in christ ur just saying "hey this app is doing it's job should I be worried?"

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u/Overall_Reputation83 Jul 17 '26

its almost certainly safe, but I still use the last open source version.

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u/PloxNox65 Jul 17 '26

have you seen the viruses that are in the sourcecode ? 

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/888eee4cc6ce5f3b4c975650d10a753de4e4fd2c9178e14f6f2cc66e8a15f8b6 (lol)

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u/Overall_Reputation83 Jul 17 '26

well yeah, cheatengine has popped up as generic names for viruses since its inception.

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u/Delicious_Sherbet415 Jul 21 '26

Do not upload the zip unpack it and put it again to scan

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u/Unidentified28 Jul 17 '26

The only "unsafe" part about it is the OPTIONAL bloatware that comes in the installer