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?
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.