Hi everyone
This is my first time posting on the forums. I hope that this is the right section for this.
Could anyone tell me if there's a way I can trust an application I'm running on my computer. Like a video game for example.
How can I know if, Counter-Strike for example, did or is doing anything malicious?. I understand that some big video game titles might be safer for how many people experiment with them and for other reasons, like them not wanting to risk the huge commerce value they have by breaching user's privacy. I'm trying to know how are they practically trusted and if there's anyway those apps' activities are seen and examined fully or if there's a chance something is not being detected.
I'm worried of things like stealing login credentials for other unrelated services that I use, seeing my PC's name or username, my network's name, my emails, my social media accounts, my documents, my pictures and files in general, getting access to microphones or webcams, using my PC as a proxy for anything malicious, setting up remote access, or anything very malicious that I might have not thought about.
Some of those breaches is not a big deal, but some are really things I don't want to risk.
I don't intend harm to any of the games I'm mentioning, I'm merely skeptical. There's a few video games that I want to play, but I can't easily trust because of having dealt with maliciousness from similar sources to those games.
Wargaming's World of Warships, World of Tanks, World of Warplanes, and their launcher. There's also Escape From Tarkov, and DCS World. All are games that I want to play, but I'm in a position in my life that can't afford any further risks of software being malicious.
I remember reading somewhere that there's no way at all of knowing what an exe does on a computer. How true is that?
Is there any easy safety measures I can take? Do popular games like those get examined thoroughly by experts? I want to trust those apps. How can I do so?
Please, help. Thanks in advance!
