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Just don’t tell Bill Gates
Friday, March 26, 2021
Sometimes this happens to our users:
My child installed a virus along with a game.
From a help request submitted to Doctor Web's Technical Support Service
Most likely, of course, the problem was not in the game (although, an enormous diversity of trojans in the guise of games exists on Google Play) but in cracks or a program activator. It is no secret that many users consider it normal to use them and are irritated that we block them.
I have a license for three PCs, but on two of them I do not have a license for W10, MO2013—so I use an activator (yes, I am a little bit of a pirate. But please don't tell Bill Gates).
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Dr.Web KATANA has started blocking the actions of the activator.
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You understand that ordinary users from Ukraine, Russia and CIS countries can’t do without pirated software, don’t you? Since it’s impossible to buy licenses for all the operating systems, utilities, games, programs, etc. that we use.
From a help request submitted to Doctor Web's Technical Support Service
Sometimes the question arises: can the anti-virus be disabled when a crack is being installed? Imagine, we even get such questions as that!
And some believe that we block activators not because they can be malicious, but for a different reason:
Many anti-virus products block not only viruses and software that can really threaten a user's security but also pirated keys, cracks, etc., only because the developers of a company like EA Sports "asked" a certain anti-virus company to block cracks and keys in order to retain their profits and force users to buy their games legally. While, in fact, they are harmless for users and their PCs.
Here is yet another myth about "good hackers" doing useful things for users of pirated programs. What's the reality?
An anti-virus responds to malicious activity, which predictably occurs when programs designed to crack a system’s anti-copy protection are used.
The logs show that the activator tries to inject itself into other processes, something legitimate programs hardly ever do, but for malicious applications, such activity is very frequent.
And here is the reply from our technical support specialist
This means that some program is injecting itself into the running process and changing its behaviour. Of course, such a program is not signed by the key of a trusted developer. What else can the anti-virus do? It responds without any requests from any side. Of course, you can disable such control. But then there will be no one to stop a real malicious program, which will also modify the running process.
- How can one distinguish the crack, the keygen using the signature of other anti-virus software on Virus Total, from real malware, which is often attached to them?
- Check the program's activity.
- Thanks, but I still need my computer.
- In general, only a detailed manual analysis can help.
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The Anti-virus Times recommends
This week, 5 new games were released—their protection was easily bypassed by pirates, and they have already leaked them on the Internet.
Be vigilant and don't install programs if your system is not protected by an anti-virus. If an application demands that you disable your anti-virus, assuring you that it is harmless, submit your request to our technical support and send this program to us for checking.
If you need to see what the crack can do, put your name in the queue for Dr.Web vxCube inspection.
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Niuxin
01:59:11 2021-04-15
Philip
12:28:51 2021-03-27
Your Internet providers are tracking every move you make on the Internet on behalf of government entities. You do not even own your own computer system Intel ( ME ). Antivirus products know more about you than your own family do.
The corporations are constantly telling you what you can and cannot do. If your antivirus product wishes to restrict what you do then they are no longer working to protect you they are in the pocket of the large corporations.
It is not the business of antivirus products, to be telling the users what they can and cannot do they the users are the paying customers. If you want to go and work for Microsoft then do so and get out of the antivirus business. Antivirus products are not should not be there to police you the user. They should do what they are paid to do. Nobody is going to pay to have a snooping policeman going under the name of an antivirus product..
If everybody did as they were told then antivirus products would quickly go out of business.
Use a separate computer for so-called piracy software and that computer should not have any Internet connection ever. This should be used for nothing other than for that software.
It should be always considered a contaminated computer system. The software should be transferred over to that contaminated computer by either DVD or a "ShareCentre."
EXE com scripts cannot contaminate a computer unless they are run on that computer. One-way traffic on a "ShareCentre" is very easy to do.
Root kits worms and so on need to be able to see the clean computer to contaminate it.
Remember piracy is illegal the same as freedom of expression.
I come from the U.K. part of the Five Eyes, where every citizen is spied on. Where you can be arrested for wrong speech.