I want to play MW2 with a friend and just 1V1, but I heard that your computer can get hacked from it. Will it be safe if I just make a private match between me and my friend?

I haven't played this in years and I'm reading horror stories about people getting Trojans and hackers taking full control of your PC through the game? Wth? No bs, is this game safe to play?

Infinity Ward's summer 2023 update for MW2 fixed CVE-2019-20893 which is the infamous JoinParty RCE exploit and added a new file called "CodCleaner.exe" into the game's files which checks if dsound.dll (an unused dll in Modern Warfare 2 that is present in nearly all DirectX games that has been repurposed) is being used to spread malware. This was good enough to ward off cheaters and exploiters for a week at most (I'm being too kind -- maybe a day or two at most) but they've since come back with fixes to be...

When you meet hackers, obey them and don't mouht up to them, if you do, they can block the connection from your ip to steam and you won't be able to play anymorpe. Happend to you? DM me for solutions

can your pc still get hacked when you play? i see a bunch of stuff saying you can. someone please help