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> There were websites which aggregated downloads of keygens for various games. These worked more often than you would expect. What did I expect? The "warez = t
by Yournothed 3y ago
> There were websites which aggregated downloads of keygens for various games. These worked more often than you would expect.
What did I expect? The "warez = trojan" thing is mainly corporate propaganda. Commercial products are just as likely to contain malware.
> Alcohol 120% was the free tool of choice to emulate a CD drive for ISOs of games which required the CD to be inserted for copy protection, or rip a CD for that purpose. This only became popular once hard drives became big enough for people to spend many gigabytes imaging their CDs.
Actually, it was Daemon Tools :^)
- SomeoneOnTheWeb 3y ago> What did I expect? The "warez = trojan" thing is mainly corporate propaganda. Commercial products are just as likely to contain malware. Except that with warez you can get malwares from both the original program AND the crack itself.
- fennecfoxy 3y agoOh no it wasn't, I remember a 3 day LAN that I went to where we were on the LAN file sharing software (DC++ or something like that I think). Bunch of people were sharing cracked games/cracks for games and can't remember which game it was now, but there was quite a popular one. Unfortunately it came with something extra and people were finding their PCs were slowing down to a crawl, blue screening, simply not turning on anymore, etc.
- msm_ 3y ago>What did I expect? The "warez = trojan" thing is mainly corporate propaganda. Commercial products are just as likely to contain malware. How do you define "malware"? I'm quite sure most commercial products don't contain embedded trojans that steal your browsers passwords, join a spamming operation or encrypt your disk. For pirated software it absolutely does happen (one easy way to start a botnet is to upload something like "BaldursGate3Installer.exe" and wait for careless gamers).