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Untouched MSDN images have their hashes published online (not without subscription anymore but people have made mirrors).
by madars 5y ago
Untouched MSDN images have their hashes published online (not without subscription anymore but people have made mirrors).
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoyep, + the keygen/patches can be scanned by virustotal. Same with game cracks (usually done by replacing the "game.exe" with a cracked version)
- no_time 5y agoAlso if you have the original file (most cracked software conveniently provides the crack separately) you can run something like ida + diaphora[0] and see the work the crackers did nicely isolated. Sometimes its little as altering a single conditional jump. [0]: https://github.com/joxeankoret/diaphora https://github.com/joxeankoret/diaphora
- tester756 5y ago> the keygen/patches can be scanned by virustotal. Wouldnt open source be better?
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoBecause not all cracks are opensource, and not all games/software is opensource. If you need a media player, you can get an opensource one (vlc, mpv,...). If you need excell, because of incompatibilities, macros, whatever, and don't want to pay (or don't want to buy a new one, since 2010 version works fine), you must crack it.
- no_time 5y agoThere are a lot of open source tools that more or less automate the removal of certain protections, especially from games. I "audited" a few myself. I'd link them here but some self righteous bootlicker would probably report it.
- tester756 5y agoI guess it's about crack.exe then