dzervas, 2 years ago

what I want to stress out at this point is that due to the techniques required to crack a game (dll injection, ssl pinning bypass, syscall hooking and more) are used by malware

that though leaves you completely unaware if the crack is benign or not. It could be or it could be not. “but it worked fine for me” is also not a good enough pointer as it’s very common practice making the malware run only under certain conditions (after a month, only when the PC is idle or the screen is locked, or make it extremely lightweight - just upload all your browser cookies once a day

if you get hit by something like this there’s no going back. you need to format. there are very, VERY weird ways that a malware can replicate/hide itself to.

software has, is and always will be a game of trust. do you trust the cracker? or even the company that makes the software? and if so, why

I always suggest to never run cracks on a machine that is used to log into personal accounts

The only crack that I actually trust is mass grave (windows & office crack). It’s a powershell script so you can just read its source code