![]() ![]() ![]() When it is sure that that is a false positive, the AV is fixed. In this case the producer company contact the AV and the case is investigated. From time to time some AVs mark regular software as virus. You just never know what you're getting unless you're trained in malware reversal, in which case you're probably paid enough to purchase your entertainment like a responsible adult. There are enough bad actors in there for it to be a concern. Nobody has the time or inclination to reverse engineer every distributed copy of every crack on the market, which is part of the reason why you're told "piracy = malware" in the first place. And moreover, these trojans hide themselves from detection pretty well as nobody cares about chasing malware in pirated content.Even if antivirus grabs one, users normally put it into exception and don't care, based on an assumption that "antiviruses don't like cracked software", while in fact, cracked software and free movies do contain malware. Regardless the fact that many people download and run the pirated software and movies, nearly all of them contain some kind of malware. The Risks of Obtaining and Using Pirated Software ![]() 11% of the key generators and crack tools downloaded from Web sites and 59% of the key generators and crack tools downloaded from peer-to-peer networks contained either malicious or potentially unwanted software.Gantz et al, 2006. ![]()
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