nice joke, as if noone had malvare from popular and "safe" forums

@@user-jh9nw6bz6f all u need is csrin

@@user-jh9nw6bz6f ​From legit and trusted crack sites no one ever had malware, that is why they earned the name "legit" and "trusted" in the first place.

@@user-jh9nw6bz6f You don't know what you're talking about p1ss off kid

captain?

@@h..h And so piracy is the way~~

Sometimes piracy or at least cracking is needed because original product comes with so much anti-piracy stuff that legit use of this software/game is more pain than use of pirated version. For example if you need to be logged on and constantly online to use offline product.

Hey, last one makes it justifiable for me to pirate! Thank you, Jesus!

Like what

@@Anonymous-qb4vc like nothing just kidding, there are topics about lost media files being saved by piracy so without them, there will be the second Library of Alexandria. Plus, you just seem think Alex Hirsch (Creator of Gravity Falls) are looking for excuse to justify piracy when geo restrictions, censorships and banned shows exist.

Any recommended site for a begginer?

@@mradamdavies the best way is a full format of the hard drive

What you think about cpy skidrow?

@@mireeebaaa7691 CPY and SKIDROW are two different groups. CPY goes back to 1999, SKIDROW goes way back to 1990. Both are very much trusted scene releases :)

It was a sponsored video so he probably made sure it was a softball video to make.

Ey, you seem like a expert on cracking. I used to always crack games when I was little, but filled computers with viruses. Is SteamUnlocked safe?

@Raiyan yes and is no longer recommended from r/piratedgames subreddit

@@M3K1E who are they to suggest anything? reddit is nothing but fricking braindead basement dwellers' community

If he proved that piracy from certain websites is safe his channel would go down for promoting piracy lol

In theory yes in practice it keeps me from buying new games. Why waste time on half finished games that run poorly?

@@clmBerserker pretty much, I end up playing and even paying occassionally for older games because I don't have the space or patience to play half baked games

also unfortunate to say but denuvo is seemingly getting properly more and more resistant. it's held off popular games for a very long time. Even if it's still simple enough to crack, it deteres crackers for a long time to make the anti pirating methods effective in getting people to buy the game instead

@@cate01a That may be true, but what I read is that many games patch out the software a few months after it gets cracked, because of how many issues the software creates.

@@SomeRandomGuy8814 What about them? What exacly are you asking? You cant just say what about x, without clarifying so that it makes x small enough to actuall be a question someone can answare. What the hell are we suppose to gather from this?

You are not safe by using M$ Windows to start with.

@@repairman2be250 windows os isnt safe? why?

@@h..h I know people who have had their iPhone hacked, even iPhones can be hacked and there are many unknown vulnerabilities in every os

Bro you life under a rock?

@@xCDF-pt8kj Your ytube name sounds like a crack that contains some nastiness.

So there is no way of defending yourself from malware, other than trust?

@@overlord3481 Trust, common sense and extensive protection on your system. You need at least two of the three. Because a solid protection that's more than just freeware stuff can be too expensive if you're resorting pirating in the first place.

@@overlord3481 well when you take the unintended route you get the unintended stuff

an antivirus@@overlord3481

​@@overlord3481 Unfortunately without having access to the source code, that's how it works for any program, even ones like Microsoft Edge. Is especially troublesome because things like game trainers (cheat programs) and cracks do similar things to what viruses do but in a good way. The safest way I've learned is to just not buy games from places with DRM. It sucks being limited, but I never have to crack legally purchased games again.

most of the times it's the 3rd or 4th and anything below that that are malicious

@@darkreddust2135 you have not been hit by the Msi afterburner ( VLC) ad scam. where it directed you to a malware version of the program.

as well if you couldn't

I play around with them on a VM and I would estimate than less than 10% of them I have tried did not have some type of malware in them.

@@rubenlungu5763 I don't even trust Google search results. Better to just enter the URLs you know directly. Who can really differ "a" from "а"? I certainly can't (the second one is the Cyrillic version and is considered a different character, people can use this to create look-alikes). Doesn't help that Google replaces the URL as soon as you right-click it to copy it out and analyze it. I've actually seen cases in which I clicked on one of these ad-farm sites on Google, because they copied news text from a different website for the crawler. And they managed to be ranked in like 6th or 7th place with that.

that is an interesting topic

Most malware can't escape VM environment so it's much more secure that if to just run it on bare metal. Most malware - but not all ;-)

Theoretically they are very safe and is the correct way to test apps but more recently developers of a malicious application could just write a few bits of code to detect if the system is a virtual environment or not and if it is a virtual environment they could program their application to do nothing or act normal and then when you run it on your main system it knows it’s not in a virtual environment anymore and executes its malicious payload. Best to have an isolated test system on an isolated network, test the file, run it a few time do a few restarts and if everything seems normal a few hours later it SHOULD be safe👀

Vm escape is the holy grail for malware authors. Thus software developers keep it patched and secure regularly. However as an another commenter noted, malware can be written to detect if its on a VM or not and act accordingly.

@@GigawattGarage Isn't there a way to masquerade the virtual environment as the main system in order to be able to see whether it's really a virus or not?

Fitgirl, Dodi, Empress.... Goldberg... Legends 💯✅

@@punisher427 Empress GOAT

@@punisher427 and of all these names only Fitgirl actually has a public website that's safe to use....

I only knew Oldcodex. Thanks.

@@punisher427 agfy

Why bro exe is virus or what

Why are you not using AdBlock if you're already pirating stuff? Tf

you're not wrong but I wouldn't call it a red flag, even "legit" cracks/activators tends to be flagged by AVs

File password is to prevent online file hosts from being able to check the data. Technically you can do search queries to search for combinations of files to find copyrighted software. Adding a password means there's no way for these automated sniffers to flag suspicious potential piracy.

why password is a redflag? meanwhile just run this AUTOEXTRACTING EXECUTABLE cheers :)

your best bet is to scan the contents through virustotal and evaluate the results (if it's either completely clean or you only get generic/crack detections, it should be fine)

@@TorutheRedFox and dont give a crap about the number of engines detecting something. check for the big players. check what sophos or eset's engine detects. if they file alert, its probably one. or atleast its reasonable why it was detected. its beyony my understanding how the process in the video wasnt flagged by every major engine. the process autoextracted itself and masked itself as eventvwr. any good behavioral engine should be able to detect that

@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 no the fuck its not

@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 yesn't

@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 definitely not

@@Chillacee which is a good one

@@darkleader2056 fit girl repacks site Just that url others are fake sites

@Darling what are they?

@Darling alright thanks bro

what’s your recommendations?

​@@liamfoo09champagne.pages.dev

​@@balls5262 what is it

yes, i tried to install a video editing software and got virus, but i never got with games.

So true I was able to get virus free cracked zbrush and substance painter but i cant get myself to update those

As with everything, you just need to find the right sources. I've downloaded a lot of tool software in the past, all from a certain site, and never had any issues

@@pygmalion8952 did you get those from getinto pc?

@@mvh7762 a friend wanta DavinciResolve Studio, but man it is to pricy

For running untrusted payloads, it would be important to use a HIPS like Comodo (I don't know of any other good one currently) on paranoid setting. Any suspicious action is detailed and can be blocked. If you see a crack "injecting into game.exe" that's fine. If you see it dropping files in system32 and injecting into explorer.exe, well, kill it. Not foolproof but if you want to do that stuff, that's how you secure yourself.

He has the disc so hes fine.

Secure Boot without extending it to user-run applications is a joke (Most malware aren't rootkits). That's why Windows 11 requires a TPM so they can potentially extend it to only trusted applications (so that the entire system is protected). It's also why I won't install Windows 11. I don't want Microsoft to dictate what application is able to run on my system and I don't want to be judged by online games for not having the super mega safe mode active. It's already a thing with Valorant and it sucks.

Same. The first time I tried getting C&C Generals on piratebay it gave my laptop tons of viruses to the point of HDD breaking and having to reinstall everything from the ground up (including OS). Got a working copy on cs.rin soon after thanks to r/piracy

Mine are Counter Strike 1.6 and Arma 1 👀

They pay anti virus software to add cracking programs and dll's to show them as a virus / malware bro, that's why kms activation tools for windows show every single dll file as a virus / trojan / Malware / spyware etc., cause they're fine most of the time. Except u got a bad one. test it in a vm. Windows defender is absolute shit btw. Just know what u're doing and u'll be fine, have backups so u can restore, or... Use Linux - best solution of all

@@toberkel1997 Linux can't stop a virus if you don't know it's a virus and you activate it.

Yeah ... Most malware nowadays is just laying there dormant doing nothing. Until a specific time and date, then somehow it activating itself.

Check the processes tab for suspicious processes, and check the startup tab. Check the temp folder and Windows folder. Most malware if not all hides itself in C drive

Couldn't agree more ❤

Yeah, they are asking for it lately.

I'm thinking about online game cheats and map hacks. Most of their users are teenager and young adult, who's emotionally very mature.

Torrent seedboxes (that seed the torrent without user interaction) don't pay for themselves

Youre gonna have a terrible time doing that, cause reverse engineering usually involves knowing Assembly (at least for games)

there could be only 1 advice, avoid piracy

which software would like to see in particular.

@@user-jh9nw6bz6f No.

@@hircine92h what else?

​@@user-jh9nw6bz6f oo yes will you please transfer some millions who don't earn or to whom their parents didn't support in the gaming

actually an interesting topic, i've noticed people are starting to call out weird Anti-cheats and software being bundled in games alot more frequently.

They just pay more

Thats actually true and accurate.

@@-Blue-_ Aside from that, the forum that do the cracking with download link is generally safe too.

also have a windows 7 vm with no network card for every cracked software

You can't have av

I downloaded thousands of hacked games in my life, but I never had an issue, and I don't even know what's a crack 😂😂😂

@Ray I realize that, but the AVs are also scanners. I was only wondering why HitmanPro seem to be the one we come back to every time, even as a tool to check how well other software is doing. If HitmanPro's scanner is average or not that great, it seems arbitrary to use it to check how well AV software is doing. What is so special about HitmanPro is what I am wondering. I have a computer where trojan powershell (generic) keeps popping up on Malwarebytes. I clean ut with that, but a few days later they're back - plural. HitMan Pro never finds them. are they false positives om MWB? Perhaps, but then that is why I am wondering .. Why are trusting Hitman Pro so much? Thank you, though.

​@Ray I understand the thinking. That doesn't tell me if this is the case with Hitman Pro though. It isn't a given that because a company doesn't have to work on removing malware (which Hitman Pro does, by the way), that their detections abilities are better. One does not explain the other here. - It doesn't logically follow that one automatically get better at detection if one doesn't have to concentrate on removal. Besides, some of these AV companies, like Kaspersky, Bitdefender, Norton, are relative large companies with a good amount of people working on these very things, detection AND removal. But thank you for answering. I haven't really gotten any real answer as to why Hitman Pro is the one we keep going back to, if there are any numbers out there showing it getrs better results than other software, but I understand you trust it. ;)

Yes, the most common is Avast. The trick to get a pro license until 2099 exists for a long time, even when I had my second computer but they probably know this. When you do this "trick" it does remove activation prompts and tell your license is paid until 2099 but the program itself will stop seeking updates, saying that its always up to date when it isnt. On an antivirus software, updates are essential.

and when theres a generic big massive button

​@@cate01aI clicked that button and downloaded the exe file, and run it and got a virus

@@Czoy9good for you

nvm found it, but still curious on how one would find out where a file came from/what created it

Launch them in a sandbox and monitor what they do

Are they safe?

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@@malvin0arifin040 how do I download via reddit i have no idea???

Because of HOW they do their job. It's very looks like a Trojan (they are modifying executable or one of it's DLLs, hunt for specific keys in the Registry or do other "suspicious activities").

They don't false alert, you can look at it and check that it says its a "keygen" or "Not-a-virus" but still blocked. As he said, its not worth it for them to check if some illegal program is safe or not, you shouldn't open or download it in the first place.

Both malware, and cracks work in a similar manner, most DRM is smart enough to tell if it's been compromised, if so it will crash/break the game in bizarre ways. Most cracks do not fully remove the DRM, simply bypass it, the methods used to bypass is frequently combined with obfuscation. Malware will attempt to obfuscate itself from the security solution, cracks will attempt to obfuscate itself from DRM. Even if they successfully crack a software it doesn't mean it's over, while there are many forms of DRM most advanced DRM will actively check it's integrity. If the DRM believes it's been compromised it can break the software. Many ways of doing this, it can appear the crack wasn't successful, or something else is wrong, mostly a last line of defense. The goal is to than alter the crack, via obfuscation so the DRM doesn't detect it's been compromised, so it will allow the software to run properly as intended. Often times false alerts/flags doesn't mean bad software, it just means a lot of shady actions, or actions typically used by malware to hide itself. Since they can both act the same they both get the same type of responses.

Most of them act in similar ways too real malware.

Kaspersky is great when it comes to this. I previously had Bitdefender which was so annoying it kept giving false flags but Kaspersky doesn't, at the very least not as often.

can u help me out man

Obviously

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

How does this work? Like, does the antivirus deletes its components afterwards? lol

It can I believe.

no, iirc those are related to steam DRM, and again iirc you can delete them, use Steamless and Goldberg to play the game without Steam *^Edit:* only steam_api.dll/steam_api64.dll

Depends on the website, for the steamapi file it should be safe

r/piracy's wiki has some good resources. can't link here bc youtube would probably eat my comment for the link

r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/wiki/games/

thats what the viruses want you to think

You never know, viruses and miners can be very very sneaky

What sites are you using? and do you have Anti-virus turned on your computer?

@@haithamalsuaibe473 look up piracy subreddit, windows defender is enough

The best way is to never pay for software with DRM. Personally, I only give money for open source products, which are inherently DRM-free.

it does not. If you only download in the real site

I just call it malware. When I think of virus I think of disease.

That’s like saying if you to Syria you shouldn’t worry about getting shot. The internet is a warzone

tails is absolutely safe and even overkill to watch your favourite streaming platforms

An adblocker is enough to be safe on pirated streaming sites, you're too paranoid

​@@danialrafid yeah, more like u just need to know wat sites to visit and which ones to avoid

anime sites are the safest, they're some of the least malicious ive had way worse experience with other sites

true lol, only to those who have an atom sized brain.

Windows is Spyware and adware at this point, meanwhile a pirate game is way better optimized and well coded than official stuff.

Images can have script have you heard of the Windows 0 day vulnerability

Can you tell me a site. That would help a bunch

​@@R.O.T.C._SEEMr/piratedgames megathread

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