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However, for every genuine crack miscreants of the lowest kind will soon post/spread thousands of copies of trojans/downloaders (with the same name/charcteristics as the original crack). But I would note that in my opinion many of the cracks begin by being “genuine”, released by various groups or “scenes” purely to brag their “skillz” and dis rival groups. This is good advice, Brian, and is true that most executables found on P2P networks, Binary news servers and alike are in fact trojans or tainted with viruses. Like when you download a program that you know is supposed to be several hundred megabytes and yet the download link says 12 MB (just to toss a number out there). Now I realize in individual cases, it’s probably impossible to know the difference but I’ve wondered if anybody has studied just how much of the pirated programs really is malware. It’s the heuristic detection kicking in because cracks do malware-like behaviour (changing executable files). And when I asked him about if, he said that most cracks show up as malware, but they’re really not. I’ve had stuff I downloaded that was flagged (yes, I live dangerously sometimes), usually just the crack.
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I have a friend who was quite involved in the community that cracks software and packages the software and cracks together and uploads them to torrent networks. However, does that mean the majority of such downloads are infected? I’ll tell you why I ask this: I don’t disagree that pirated software downloads are a major source for infection. This entry was posted on Monday 20th of June 2011 06:34 AM It is almost never safe to download executable programs from peer-to-peer file sharing networks because they are a major source of malware infections. Please add these to the growing list of KrebsonSecurity Rules for Online Safety:
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I hope it’s clear from reading this post that downloading pirated software and software cracks is among the fastest and likeliest ways to infect your computer with something that ultimately hands control over of your PC to someone else. It’s frustrating to see because I know once they get infected it’s going to be pure misery for them.” “In the last 7 days 484 people in my community rolled this out from quarantine. “I am doing false positive management again this morning,” Huger told me last week.
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They went looking for it and installed it.Īs an example, Huger said that in the previous week, more than 100 Immunet users had rolled back infected files that install copies of the Conficker worm, among other malware. In almost every case when I can actually track down the user and ask why they rolled it back I am told it was a crack or pirated material of some type. “About 90% of the false positive roll backs I see which result in more than 10 convictions - meaning more than 10 people rolled it back, turn out to be real malware. “A roll back to us is a file which we convicted but people disagreed with the conviction and rolled it out of quarantine,” Huger said. But if users still want to access the file, or they don’t believe or care that it’s malicious, they can reverse or “roll back” that conviction. Files that are “convicted” by anti-virus programs are considered malicious and are placed in a quarantine area on the user’s system. Huger said these types of infections were closely correlated with cases in which Immunet users opted to dispute its malware detection for specific files. But I was curious about his comment, and asked if he had data to support it.
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I replied that people who knowingly engage in this type of risky behavior probably don’t care much about my three rules, and that the advice was meant for people who were interested in learning how to stay safe online.
He told me that the rules should have included this warning: Do not download pirated software and cracks from filesharing networks and cracks sites because they are a major source of malware infections.
Huger was reaching out to offer feedback on my 3 Rules for Online Safety post. Recently, I heard from Alfred Huger, vice president of engineering at Immunet, an anti-virus company recently purchased by Sourcefire. But I seldom come across more than anecdotal data that backs this up.
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I always answer with an emphatic “NO!,” and the warning that pirated software and cracks - programs designed to generate product keys or serial numbers for popular software and games - are almost always bundled with some kind of malware. I often get emails from people asking if it’s safe to download executable programs from peer-to-peer filesharing networks.