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Many cracks use techniques that heuristically are the same as a virus, therefore they get flagged. A loader that injects code into a process to bypass authentication looks really bad to a scanner, but that is its intended use.
5 lip 2016 · I'm fairly certain crack tools are detected as malware or viruses because, by definition, they are. Their specific purpose is to modify programs and files so that they don't work as designed. They delete verification files, modify registration status and do whatever they can to make their target not work as intended.
Almost every keygen, crack, activator registers as a virus because they alter parts of the program or the Windows hosts file to stop it form phoning home. They're called false positives and you should shut off your AV/malware programs while applying them.
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26 paź 2021 · Cracks/cheats/keygens/... are easy targets to fake and distribute viruses, trojans, ... instead. Searching google for a keygen will turn up thousands of websites serving 0 keygens but a load of viruses instead.
18 lut 2019 · People sometimes ask us in the forums if a keygen or software crack is safe to use. In this post, we'll describe what happened when one of our researchers went crack hunting, and why it is often unsafe to carry out this activity.
Nexus uses Virus Total for its virus scan. You can view the files within a download if you're suspicious. (Just click "Preview File Contents" on the mod file.) You can just download manually then scan with Windows or Malwarebytes. Then install the archive into your mod manager.
