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    i tested patched software, cracks and keygens for fun, i wanted to see what security software found the most malware, is a test illegal? i think not.

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    Yea, I used to do that once. To see how AVG responded and how the stuff worked. I never said it was illegal to test it. But to distribute it.

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    antiviruses also detect pirated software even when they are malware free, just because it is illegal. however that is not what antiviruses should do, they are not antipiracysoftware. not all software on filesharing networks is infected, but i would not recommend anyone to use it anyway. the worst of all to download is software packs with 30 or even hundreds of software, thats my experience when testing. maybe something is not infected, but it may cause unenspected behaviour on the computer.

    maybe i was doing something illegal, because when downloading torrents you are sharing the parts you get from other people before you have finished the download.

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    There were some problems with users accidentally putting their "My Documents" into the Sharing Folders. Then there were some cases of identity theft.

    I'm not so sure if AV's are anti-piracy softwares. However, I do believe it is right to detect pirated software. User's shouldn't even have it in the first place. In some cases the software does work, take Adobe Photoshop for instance, but it comes with a price.

    No AV or AS (anti-spyware) is invincible.
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    its the opposite to me the shared folder is in my documents.

    so do you have downloaded a adobe photoshop that works? it sounds you are doing something you shouldnt not every downloadable photoshop works, but i have not downloaded it so i dont know, its a guess.

    i have that xp edition too i am just kidding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blues View Post
    its the opposite to me the shared folder is in my documents.

    so do you have downloaded a adobe photoshop that works? it sounds you are doing something you shouldnt not every downloadable photoshop works, but i have not downloaded it so i dont know, its a guess.

    i have that xp edition too i am just kidding.
    First of all blues let me make this clear. I have never executed any pirated or cracked software and I never will. What I said about Adobe Photoshop was just merely a guess. I don't really have any use for it. I don't plan to purchase it because it's too expensive.
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    :P Pirated Edition. Haha. It's just a modified boot screen made from painting tools. It's not real.

    Though I've heard this edition called Windows XP "Black Edition". DON'T TRY it. I wouldn't suggest Googling it either. It's a illegal bunch of cracked software bundled into one.

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    i downloaded some of the xp black editions just to test if i found malware on it, and many of the bundled software was infected. sadly, it wasnt possible to test the cds/dvds with spybot, it would have been fun to test spybot too to see what malware it found. i dont have the cds/dvds now. i dont understand why they put a lot of work on making such modified xp editions, and then put in malware afterwards.

    great if spybot would have right click scanning and was able to scan all drives like the dvd drives, i will put that in the suggestions forum.

    it is not great to download one software from a single person you trust either, i mean from torrent sites, because they have possibly downloaded them from dangerous warez sites.
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    I think Spybot-SD 1.6 integrates the "right-click" scanning. Like scanning individual files.

    Why create a modified version? Simple. Answer is to attract unaware user so the malware can be installed. This "commonly" turns the user's computer into a "zombie". If not, it plagues the user with a backdoor possibly or use the compromised PC's bandwidth and redirect it's traffic to a malicious server so all bits of data is transmitted to the malware creator first.

    Some users might ask why not write viruses and malware for Mac? In my perspective, the Windows OS is most commonly used. Like used by a majority of netizens. In addition, the Windows OS is so-called the "easiest" to study and learn and it also has its vulnerabilities.

    blues clues ;D

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    I think Spybot-SD 1.6 integrates the "right-click" scanning. Like scanning individual files

    thanks for telling

    spybot is the funniest antispyware to use, because of the tools, but it havent found any malware yet in my computer in the last years but some years ago if i remember right it found some malware, but i dont remember it exactly.

    but it found a trojan that according to the description causes bufferowerflows, and maybe some more, this was in 2007 or 2008 i think. i dont remember exactly what antimalware software i used, but i think it was this ones: spybot, a-squared, spywareterminator, ad-aware, malwarebytesantimalware, superantispyware, and the antiviruses antivir, avg, and avast. i think almost everyone of them found something the others didnt. spybot was the only one that found the bufferowerflow trojan. all this was in the test, it was in a folder with cracks, pirated software and patches. it seemed that the antiviruses detected more trojans than the antimalwares. but maybe some of the detections are false positives, i dont have the knowledge to know. some of them detected the same as the others.

    i dont know how many antimalware i need, but everyone detect some that the others dont detect. it is a pain to have several antimalwares because it will take a hole day to scan with everyone of them. i search through the computer every sunday and updates all my other software then.
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    How the heck is Spybot-SD the "funniest" anti-spyware program you used?

    Spybot does not scan for viruses. It scans for spyware, malware, trojans, bots, worms, and some rookits. I believe AV's scan for viruses and trojans. However, some AV's these days include rookit and spyware scanning.

    I really don't think you need all those tools. MalwareBye's AM, is only used for infected computers. In my opinion, this goes for SAS too. I find SAS quite useful because I was surprised (in a good way) that it purged SmitFraud from my aunt's PC. However, the updates seem to be slowing down a bit.

    If testing cracked software was fun, then we wouldn't have any firewalls and AV's. Just jk.

    I just browsed through some torrent site. I wasn't downloading though, just to see what people were downloading.

    *Sigh. What made be laugh was people downloading a cracked version of Adobe Reader 9 Pro + Keygen.

    I'm sure those keygens never work. Though I never tried one.

    I plan to when I've backed up all by data and plan to reformat.

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