If you're revisiting the game for nostalgia, it’s best to stick to modern private servers that offer "quality of life" features (like built-in auto-hunting) rather than risking your PC with legacy hacks.
Use sandboxed environments or VirusTotal to check legacy .exe files.
handled trades on the server side, making such a client-side hack technically impossible without a massive security breach. 4. Risks and Modern Consequences
The integration of software like HackShield and later CheatEngine-resistant layers.