Hello everyone ! I have an questions and I thought this is the good section for it . The pirate games have or haven’t viruses ? Someone say they haven’t , the antivirus program see the crack file suspicious and I must to turn-off the antivirus during the process of downloading and installing and turn on after that . This is a bag idea or… ?
Best wishes,
Paul
Hi when you are infected… As you will be go to this thread first http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
Sometimes it is the user that is directly responsible for any malware infestations on their systems. Downloading and installing cracked software is definitely one of the ways to get infected with the latest and greatest malware, as these variants often are not detected in the wild until avast! or other a/v programs create a new detection for these files.
Because of that, you are on your own when running cracked software of any sort, as a malicious detection/block cannot be made until that detection is reported and made by your a/v vendor.
You can always use VT (Virus Total dot com) to see if your file is a known piece of malware or not: https://www.virustotal.com/
Just because VT does not show detections does not mean your file is clean because of the known issues with using cracked software as above.
The fact that using cracked software is illegal and can result in prosecution should be enough for the average user to stay away.
Hope this full explanation as to why one should not use cracked software is sufficient for you to reconsider your position.
Strange for you to ask a question about piracy on a Security help forum.
Why aren’t you asking your friends at the website where you’re obtaining this illegal software???
As already mentioned, Piracy is illegal and can result in legal prosecution.
Is it really worth a prison term/large fine or both just to avoid paying for something you seem to enjoy ???
Strange for you to ask a question about piracy on a Security help forum.
Why aren’t you asking your friends at the website where you’re obtaining this illegal software???
As already mentioned, Piracy is illegal and can result in legal prosecution.
Is it really worth a prison term/large fine or both just to avoid paying for something you seem to enjoy ???
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I didn’t download a pirate software because I thought , Who would do something for free ?" . But someone said me the crack files are a false-positive and I just didn’t now what I must to think . Therefore I posted that question here because this is a Security help forum and I thought ,They will now what I must to do" .
Anyway , thanks for your advices .
Best wishes,
Paul
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