This is the 549th original article of the Old Boy Game Box, by @Xiaolei
Now many post-80s, post-90s players have forgotten the bitterness of downloading games back then, remember that when Xiaolei was still Xiaolei, I don't know how many viruses were installed just to download the game, all kinds of Trojans, worms, incense burning viruses have been recruited, the computer at home has to be reinstalled every few weeks, it can be said that my super computer repair skills are thanks to the rogue download site.
Today's players don't have to suffer from our back then, and many games can be purchased with one click on platforms such as Steam for less money. It's just that some old games still need us to go to the Internet to find resources, and then find that the current download site has many new routines - they no longer dare to spread Trojans, but instead become your computer implanted with various downloaders and rogue software! There are also times when I try to find a game resource website, and I find that the download links inside are all fake, which is really upsetting and upset!
Today, @Old Boy Game Box will share with you how to search for real game resources on the Internet, and how to quickly identify the authenticity of download links.
Chinese. Search together with English search engines
As we all know, Du Niang is a guy who can't search for anything but advertising, but when we want to search game resources, most of the time we still have to rely on him, after all, other domestic search engines are more difficult to use. However, if you really can't search for the resources you want to search on Du Niang, you can also consider using domestic search engines such as 360 search, Sogou search, and Shenma search, and Microsoft's own bing can also be used, and changing a few search engines can improve the probability of finding resources.
For unpopular game resources, you can try to search in English in the international version of bing, remember to add the keyword download after the English name of the game, sometimes it will have a miraculous effect!
When we search for websites that may have resources, we should start paying attention to the routines of various download sites, the most common of which is to create a huge "download link" button on the first screen to induce you to download some adware. Once you are tricked by the website, you can just download a downloader software, you can delete it, or at worst you will be automatically installed in the background, and you seem to become a broiler chicken carrying a virus.
So how to identify whether the download button is a game resource or a virus? @老男孩游戏盒 teach you a trick: move the mouse to Dafa!
Move the mouse up Dafa
Put the mouse on the download button, observe whether a hyperlink appears in the lower left corner of the screen, if there is no hyperlink, it means that there is a high probability that there is no download resource behind this button, and after clicking, various JavaScript pop-up scripts may be triggered, thereby clicking on some strange ♀ websites.
After moving the mouse up, even if you see a download address in the lower left corner, don't be in a hurry to click, pay attention to the last suffix of the download address - if the suffix is .exe, it means that this may be a carefully disguised downloader installer, this kind of resource should not be downloaded, even if downloaded will be alerted by antivirus software!
According to Xiaolei's rich experience in finding resources on the Internet, general real game resources have the following characteristics:
First of all, the real download link is not very conspicuous on the web page, and generally hides the bottom half of a web page. In some download stations, they usually appear with the words "Beijing Unicom Download" and "Shanghai Telecom Download".
Secondly, when you move the mouse over these download links to observe the links in the lower left corner, you will find that the suffixes of the download links are usually rar, zip, and 7z.
In addition, the download links of most websites are generally in English (because the compatibility of Chinese is not good), and some responsible websites will also mark the version number on it, which can be observed through our "mouse up Dafa". If you see a download link with the above characteristics, then congratulations, you have found a high probability of a real download site!
In addition, observing the icon and file size of the download resource can help us identify rogue software and downloaders, and we will talk to you about these advanced skills when we have the opportunity!
Author: Xiao Lei
Editor: Xiao Lei