Is MBAM better, or is microsoft defender enough if you download from trusted sources?
Do you consider Nyaa safe? (I’d like to get a visual novel or two that I haven’t purchased on steam yet)
Regarding other games, I always used pirate bay and I’ve been fine, 10 years ago though. Are the website listed in the wiki generally safe?
To be honest, common sense is the best form of security. If you don’t trust something, either run it in a VM, or don’t run it at all.
To answer your question, Microsoft defender should be plenty.
Virtual Machines are not a good way to test if something has malware. Most viruses are programmed to not do anything if they detect that they’re being ran in a VM.
Did they say to test it in a vm? It looks to me like they’re saying to run it in a vm since it’s untrusted
Yes but in a VM you have to make sure you PASSTHROUGH a GPU. Maybe OP can execute games by another user without privileges. Like execute app as not admin, or user.
I would add increasing the UAC or just not using an admin account, if your on windows, is also a very effective way to keep yourself safe as it will prevent a lot of malicious programs from automatically elevating their permissions.
regarding websites, I never had troubles with TPB on Windows 7, how are the ones listed in the megathread considered?
Yes and No. You should be able to set some GroupPolicies, and execute games by that type of policies like Application Guard. (Search GPO).