I have been out of the game for a while, but intend to pirate games of the classical asshole-publishers, such as Ubisoft. I know how to do all of that with Movies and TV Shows, but for PC Games, I am lacking legit sources and unfortunately, Impress is out as well.
How does one pirate PC Games in 2026, via torrent or usenet?
How do we make sure there are no viruses or malware?
My solution is to play on Linux haha
That’s funny but be aware that some malware can wreak havoc even on WINE
If running it via Lutris or from the command line you can use as command prefix a proper sandboxing application like Firejail so that wine itself is launched inside a sandbox.
For example I have it set up in Lutris so that by default all my games run with networking disabled.
As per your point, Wine is just an adaptor layer not an emulator or sandbox, so a Windows binary running in Wine can try and load Linux libraries and start doing Linux stuff rather than Windows stuff if it succeeds (in other words, it’s perfectly possible to make Windows malware that acts as Linux malware when it detects its running with Wine)
Good to know!
Scan it with the antivirus you’re already using. And take regular precautions like not disabling essential Windows security features like UAC.
I don’t use an antivirus on Windows 11, except for the free one included in Windows.
And I feel it may not reveal all kinds of virus