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Is the claim "Keygens (for cracked software) register as viruses in anti-virus software" legit?
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Sorry if this breaks the rules for vaguely touching on the subject of piracy. I don't want this thread to endorse piracy or discuss means of pirating software, I've just seen this claim around a lot, and I wonder about it's legitimacy.
To explain, a lot of places offering pirated or cracked software sees commenters reporting a virus in the files, with others almost always claiming that key generators for cracked software get picked up as viruses by anti-virus software. This doesn't seem right to me, since a key generator seems like a simple program that shows a GUI, containing a button that requests a random solution from an algorithm within the program. I don't see how this would show up as a threat in AV software, the function of these programs seems entirely legitimate. I can't see registering this behaviour for programs as a virus definition for AV software happening either, as I feel this would pick up many false positives.
Do you think these claims (that keygens show up as viruses in AV software) are made in the attempt to spread malicious software around the pirate community? Or are they legitimate?
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It depends on who made it and for what purpose.
Some people make them to genuinly beat the system and in order to generate a key which the program will accept on your PC, it has to go into things like your system registry and retrieve things like your OS ID# in order to make your code. AV programs may pick up on what its doing as being potentially harmfull and give a false positive.
However, other times, the guys making it are doing it do put malicious software onto your PC and they will goad you into thinking its only a false positive and you will allow it and then you get infected. Its a great way to infect a bunch of PCs.
The only way to know for sure is to run it on a secure machine (virtual machine for example) and then see what its up to at a low level - use tools like wireshark etc to see if its sending stuff over the network, see if its doing anything to your system files, etc. However, this is a lot of pissing around so most people will just trust the comments on the pirate bay etc - which could EASILY be faked.
Its always going to be a risk.
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- Where do you keep track of all of the right pictures and documents?
Wondering if there is something better than text / email out there...
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