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I'm very wary of any pirated software these days. A lot of crackers and keygens I obtained long ago turned out to contain viruses. I wouldn't say the majority
by willis936 5y ago
I'm very wary of any pirated software these days. A lot of crackers and keygens I obtained long ago turned out to contain viruses. I wouldn't say the majority of the demoscene is like that and maybe even the viruses came from people remaking torrents with modified files then seed-boosted them to the top of the search. A few bad apples spoil the bunch.
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- pseudo0 5y agoIt is of course smart to use caution when downloading anything from an unauthenticated source, but this has become a pretty minimal problem the last few years. AV heuristics and OS security features today are miles better than 5-10 years ago, and services like VirusTotal significantly reduce the amount of time a novel repacking of an old exploit can fly under the radar. Also in the case of a pdf vulnerability, the attacker would have to guess the right version combination of OS and pdf reader (or browser), reducing the percentage of downloads that would result in successful exploitation. This combination of factors seems to have made this tactic increasingly ineffective, so people have largely stopped trying it.
- young_unixer 5y agoIf it's a keygen, just run it in a VM.
- compdoovid 5y agoWe had a saying called: "ungewöhnliche Laufzeitpacker!", 'often and originaly used to shorten the filesize' of an '.exe'-file. Hope this helps cos wayback with the iphones there was an 'official and major bug' i remember, Radio/Press/and Tv warnigs told the people: 'jailbreaked-phones users downloaded viruses on their computers'-media (-; hint: 'shortend...'