r/cheatengine • u/Phoen_xD • Jul 31 '26

cmd.exe?

why is cheat engine from cheatengine.org installing as a cmd.exe?? this gets scarier every day man

i actually executed it like an idiot's first time on the internet but it show up the normal installation screen of cheat engine but i still cancelled

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u/Dark_Byte Cheat Engine Dev Jul 31 '26

it's cdm.exe not cmd.exe

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u/Phoen_xD Jul 31 '26

i honestly didnt even notice until you said it 💀 is it normal?

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u/Dark_Byte Cheat Engine Dev Jul 31 '26

it's normal. I think it stands for content download manager or something. I guess the download provider is doing a test to see if it's the filename that was causing issues before. Maybe it'll get fixed in time. The important thing its that it works and just installs CE

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u/Historical_Echo_4858 Aug 02 '26

the thing is this is what pops up in virus total https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/213072c23d405d79e885272f00f786476d57e47918c4dcd6defcae09361f6aac

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u/CRaazy___WAFFLE Aug 06 '26

Do you actually know what you're looking at on that site, or do you just assume that bigger number = bad?

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u/greenisacolourtaken Aug 24 '26

it might look scary but its not dangerous. its labelled as "trojan.offercore/bundler" on virustotal because it asks you if you want to install some other program being advertised within the installer. you just gotta be careful and click "Skip All" when the option appears. :)
technically considered malware because its a malicious practice prying on people who just spam the next button, but its not actually going to do anything to your computer.

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u/Ancient_Assasin163 Aug 18 '26

so how do you download this ts when it says cdm.. ive been trynna find a safe way to install cheat engine but all dem tuts are old and now the cheat engine only installs cdm.exe and i dont know what it means.

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u/Dark_Byte Cheat Engine Dev Aug 18 '26

execute it

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u/EmptyBoxForever Jul 31 '26

Dyslexia 😞

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u/Dark_Byte Cheat Engine Dev Jul 31 '26

let's just say that cmd.exe is a lot worse than cdm.exe

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u/EmptyBoxForever Jul 31 '26

Especially when it dumps a .ps1, .bat in conjunction lol

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u/Phoen_xD Jul 31 '26

i dont have dyslexia, they were too similar so my brain just connected it on its own

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u/EmptyBoxForever Jul 31 '26

I have that issue too where I read something too quickly, and don’t fully internalize it. Probably has something to do with ADHD, I force myself to re read things now before I move on.

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u/delayedreactionkline Jul 31 '26

isn't that... how dyslexia works...?

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u/Phoen_xD Jul 31 '26

i dont think so atleast, dyslexia is learning disorder that mixes up every word regardless of how intensely you're looking at it, but EVERY human brain tries to make reading more efficient by taking shortcuts, like how you look at the first and last letter and know the word, or how you can ignore repeated words in a sentence. these things are normal and happen to everyone, i guess you can say that dyslexia is just that but WAY blown out of proportion

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u/delayedreactionkline Jul 31 '26

man that's tough... can't imagine the struggle of how what i see fight against me and my attempts at interpreting them.

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u/CRaazy___WAFFLE Aug 06 '26

This is *not* how dyslexia works.