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that's arguing gymnastics I do seriously ask because I avoid pirating stuff because I'm never sure what's there and yes, I do believe that shady sites are mor
by tester756 5y ago
that's arguing gymnastics
I do seriously ask because I avoid pirating stuff because I'm never sure what's there
and yes, I do believe that shady sites are more likely to add some fancy stuff like coin miners to their stuff than actual e.g game vendors like CDPR and similar.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoThe risk is always there... but you can always check the hash of the iso, if it's the same as on microsofts site, and then check the crack/patch/activator/... on virustotal. Movies, series, music,.. are usually in file formats not really suitable to carry malware (unless you click on the movie.mp4.exe, but most tech-savy users, who know how to pirate, also know not to do that).
- wizzwizz4 5y ago> Movies, series, music,.. are usually in file formats not really suitable to carry malware A few audio file formats are (practically) Turing-complete, and there have before been bugs in the VMs that allow privilege escalation.
- TheAdamAndChe 5y agoAs an IT security professional, depending on virus total and other sites is a pretty horrible idea. It's trivial to use msfvenom to encrypt a trojan and get it executed on a system, at least for a while until it gets recognized by some cloud platform.