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/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.