Why Should Avira or other AV "must hate" keygens.

[Ceyfer √]

False Positives & Keygen threat issues were tackled at Wilders thread and It will answer why Avira are soo agressive against keygen & also sensitive to fp's.

Cracks and keygens so often really contain malware these days, I regulary farm them in order to pickup the latest malware! The ratio of really infected cracks & keygens is very high, and I noticed they switched over from trojanizing the keygen/patcher to trojanizing the installer of the program itself.

I agree.

Beside exploits (browser, JavaScript, Flash, PDF) I would say trojans in cracks/keygens are one of the major infection vectors these days.

Read Stefan Kurtzhals posts.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showt...=267348&page=3

[grr]

Thanks ceyfer..

[Raymond]

It pretty much depends where the person gets the keygen and cracks from.

The truth is, many people look for cracks and keygens which makes it a very good place to spread their malware.

[LAHarry]

Most of keygens & cracks are build in with trojan or malicious programs. Immediately after you excute this, your computer will be inflected.
Trust your antivirus software & try not to use any of these cracked softwares.

Avira is supposed to be "FP Heaven",as a matter of fact Avira performs very good detection rate & protection to your computer.

[grr]

Most of keygens & cracks are build in with trojan or malicious programs. Immediately after you excute this, your computer will be inflected.
Trust your antivirus software & try not to use any of these cracked softwares.

Avira is supposed to be "FP Heaven",as a matter of fact Avira performs very good detection rate & protection to your computer.

to be honest, AVG was the one which would detect every possible keygen in this world as malware/trojan, etc. It was in v7 hat i used long time back

[Alboguy]

I heard that even Bitdefender is really harsh with keygens...and acording to mrm52858 post its not even worth it using anymore.

[hellnoire]

I find Bitdefender heavy on my parent's PC... 3.2 Gig single core, 3 gigs ram, and 128 mb Video card... and it slows the PC as much as 20 seconds per boot.

[sujay]

The most sensitive against Keygen/crack/patch is A-squared/Ikarus and least are Kaspersky and Dr. Web.

[vonn]

I find Panda Cloud isn't so bad... but it does pick up a few more then I'd like. It really depends on where you get them from. A lot of scener teams release open versions of cracks/keygens/tools that someone else adds a virus to and re-releases. There's no substitute for a trusted source, which is your best and safest anti-virus against these things IMO.

[Ceyfer √]

I agree that getting the legit *tool from trusted source may do lessen the risk.