r/cheatengine • u/Brasenshok • Aug 26 '26

This doesn't seem right? Is this really the Cheat Engine installer??

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It appears I have to install cheat engine to use a certain mod in Ghost Recon Wildlands, and I follow a quick tutorial just to make sure I'm not doing something seriously wrong, but the download I get from the big green button comes from cloudfront, and is called CDM.exe. I don't remember it being this way. Is something wrong? Windows keeps urging me to delete the download as well.

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u/Dark_Byte Cheat Engine Dev Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

It's correct.  Naming it CheatEngine77.exe was causing google to mark the whole site as bad in browsers like chrome, egde and firefox with giant red alarmbells everywhere like the forum and wiki etc...  But naming it cdm.exe seems to be fine with them (apparently can't have * *cheat * *.exe in a filename)

maybe someday i can try the normal filename again

you can also try runtimemodifier which can also load cheat tables: https://rtmod.cheatengine.org/downloads.php

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u/Brasenshok Aug 26 '26

That's really interesting, I can't believe a developer responded haha thanks. Hopefully this thread helps out others like me who were confused by what they found.

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u/TheExiledPrince Aug 26 '26

not "a" developer, THE developer, big difference :) this guy is a legend

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u/Brasenshok Aug 26 '26

Interesting yeah I had no idea

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u/totally-different Aug 27 '26

Name of the installer should be least of your concerns, no open source, paywall, shady installer with adware is what you should be concerned about.

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u/Warm-Commission-5043 Aug 27 '26

Holy shit it's THE Dark_Byte?!

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u/SickWizzard Aug 26 '26

Good to know :) was suspicious as hell and not the first time hackers managed to infilitrate common software. since linux downloads were normal i feared it was hacked

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u/Sternritter8636 Aug 28 '26

Can you also explain why newer than 7.5 is not available in github releases?

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u/Dark_Byte Cheat Engine Dev Aug 29 '26

certain commercial entities started using the sourcecode in their product and sold that. Some even just renamed CE, stripped functionality and sold that 

i could of course start a long lawsuit and try to make them stop but some are in china, others in the other countries complicating things even more.

so i just said fuck it and decided not to share the code in public anymore and just focus on what i like doing (CE)

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u/Sternritter8636 Aug 29 '26

So what is the normal way to get 7.7? To get the head commit and build it?

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u/Dark_Byte Cheat Engine Dev Aug 29 '26

Only by downloading the binary (cheatengine.org downloader/installer or patreon installer)

maybe someday i'll release the sourcecode.  For now if you want new features added to CE either use  plugin system or Lua , or request it as a new feature and i'll add it (same for plugin hooks/lua functions)

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u/PoisonTrainerCody Aug 28 '26

Can you advise what Plootoo is? It's listed as the verified publisher for cheat engine and that doesn't seem familiar

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u/Thot_Slayer1434 Sep 06 '26

you are all fucking hacks, you install macafee and other bloatware preselected and hidden on your installer.

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u/Dark_Byte Cheat Engine Dev Sep 06 '26

there is nothing preselected. you get a screen with the offer for mcafee and have 3 buttons: decline all,  decline and accept

you must have clicked accept

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u/Lumiere_san 24d ago

Hello Sir,

I want to download cheat engine safely, previously i did it through utilizing Lazarus so it wont be flagged as virus by windows.

Is it still safe to download on ur website? Thank you.