Horror stories, like one from Kaspersky about a player who was hit with ransomware when trying to download a cracked game, should act as a warning.
How do you know that someone didn't mess with the file before uploading it? Legitimate game stores would get in a lot of trouble for handing out malware.īut that trust disappears when you're downloading public torrents. When you download from a reputable source, you can reasonably trust that the file you're downloading is what the distributor claims it is.
It's no secret that pirating any kind of software is dangerous.
