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How risky is Piracy: Do cracks contain malware?

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45 thoughts on “How risky is Piracy: Do cracks contain malware?

  • watching this while pirating hitman pro

  • If you try to sail the high seas without proper navigation skills, guns and ammunition, you are set to be sunken

  • I always get super paranoid and install at least 3 (trusted) antivirus and malware remover tools, but these never find anything.

  • bro i downloaded hitman pro from official website and it fucked mz computer

  • Something worth mentioning.
    When you opened the Norton one, the compressed size was around 4MB, while the "real" size was over 370MB. That would have been beyond fishy to me.

  • these dont have malwares, but dont download lego games from 4fnet or gamer library, for it has a virus called, hacktool, its quite hard to remove it

  • Instead, install high security risk software from steam, epic, ubisoft, EA,

  • Hey just a question , would blocking software from connecting to the internet help with the chance of malware or data being siphoned out?

  • If you know how to do it you can also inspect element to make sure it doesn't redirect you or download WOT to see if it's safe this is why I use AVG because if it's not safe it will automatically block the website it's not always good to rely on Windows Defender and some virus protection is still good to have around I've hear using Avast is pretty good and even McAfee is changing there ways as well and they all block phishing sites please stop relying on just Windows Defender and recommend virus software for protection they don't physically do a deep scan on your computer.

  • Question. Why do my browser close when i search for virustotal?

  • Been cracking games from fitgirl for 6-7 years now

  • If you're going to talk about it, you should be a bit more competent! Unfortunately, you're talking about something you've never tried yourself. It's like a virgin preaching about the mysteries of sex.

  • what a fc noob video only a newbie will do this if you have brain or atleast you finish grade school and you finish atleast computer 101 you should know where to pirate a good crack application lmao

  • Download from Persian websites
    Full version last update all dlc no ad and popup
    Best repacks

  • You should have asked someone who actually downloads pirated games for links to test in this video.

  • hypothetically, if i was to download cracked software in the most optimal and efficient way for longterm purposes, wouldnt it be best to buy a junk laptop, setting it up with great oppsec in focus, so theres no fear of having anything personal hijacked in the case of malware, mby even for safety purposes doing it in a public library on a their public wifi?

  • How good idea of ​​testing the application by running it on a virtual machine?

  • cracki moga zawierac tylko trojana opragromowanie ktore zwalnia twoj komputer

  • My friend downloaded exel crack(for school project) and got so many viruses and malwares, that he was supposed to drop Dr. Web from other pc and do multiple scans with windows defender also…
    Boys, remember to not download exel from internet…

  • I downloaded many games from fitgirl it was amazing with no problems

  • I have a question, i downloaded a game, it shows that its launcher is clean but virus total flagged its steam_api.dll file as a threat only 1 flag and also steam_client.dll as a threat it is also only one flag. does it really contain malware?

  • Well to be honest I never do anything productive on my computer it is only for gaming I only do single player

  • hey can you check out creamapi its a steam dlc pirate application but when i used it i got warinings that it was torjan but i dont know if it was a acctual virus or just a false positive.

  • "Let’s hope cops aren’t watching" Hope they will not drop an explosive barrel from an helicopter.

  • And folks, this is why you use a good ad-blocker such as uBlock Origin, uBlock Origin Lite, AdGuard, or a DNS-level content filter such as PiHole, AdGuard DNS, or NextDNS. So many of these online "advertisements" are really fake download buttons designed to deceive people into clicking the wrong link only to then get asked to install adware or junkware onto your computer. It is 2024, and malvertising such as what was shown in the video should not be existing in 2024. Anywho, please educate yourselves and protect yourselves with using an ad-blocker. These advertisers are corporate scumbags who are willing to put the security and privacy of their customers at risk just to make a quick buck. But I digress.

  • I mean I downloaded a cracked version of something and it gave me a web hijacker

  • I just always operate under the assumption that if something is free then YOU are the product

  • I used ocean of games and I got a serious malware . Every time I open my laptop it runs a program taking 80 perncent of cpu usage and 2/3 gigs of ram. I also contacted ms support bcz my defender is not working and they were useless. Finally i gave avast antivirus a try and it immediately solved my problem and pinpointed the exact malware that was always running when i open my laptop

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