For those that use cracked VSTs, how do you deal with all the malware?

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  1. No Avenger

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    Added to my 'list' (post #64). [​IMG]
     
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    In this stupid, pc psy-op world now, I have to say "hick" is slang for 'red-neck/hillbilly', so best to use the accepted 'hiccup' for the word 'hiccough'. High-cough.
     
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    I mean I already buy my salad from McDonalds so I might aswell do that too
    Same and it was because I coded malware myself and forgot to turn on antivir afterwards :hahaha:
    I was the biggest brainlet, but to my defense the infected file was an uninstaller of a game like who expects that
     
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    I actually download every year the new Kaspersky Internet security from warez sites :rofl:
    But it's not as crazy as it sounds. That beast has an incredible self-check mechanism. I'm not even talking about the self-defense setting.
    If you activate it successfully via internet there's no way it can be infected (I use the trial-reset hack)
    I can't top that one :lmao::lmao::lmao::hahaha:
     
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    I have been seeing that term a lot "crack" in context with software and For a while I thought it was a metaphor for the drug. A friend told me it was in fact software so I decided to try one. I downloaded an audio effect called "crack" and tried it out. It was free of course but very difficult to install and It didn't seem to do anything so I uninstalled it so no crack for me thanks anyway.
     
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    Can't top that one either for completely different reasons. I feel like only badly drunk, wasted and faded could get to understand the logic :rofl:
     
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    Just read that the waves 13 was repacked with a terminal command for mac that erases the whole internal drive, locked wifi up making it impossible to shut off all while sending ilok info back to a source in Sweden…hmmm
     
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    so if it "erased the hard drive", how does the person claim to know where the ilok data was sent?

    I'll gladly install it to test, as long as it formats the hd for me after installing waves 13. :)
     
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    What malware? also what AV?

    Why do people associate cracked software with malware? So stupid.
    You can download a normal setup from a legit place and it can also be infected or have malware in it.
     
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    and in this case, which source (site)? Again, no live link to warez or screenshot that can be OCR's easily.
     
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    Run Malwarebytes, it catches many of the malwares that regular AVs won't.
     
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    I just read that the moon is made of cheese.
    I just read that Kim Kardashian's ass is made of cheese.
    I just read that the password to Alan Parsons' Twitter account password is 'cheese'.
    I read it. I believe.



    PS..i am just kidding about the moon thing..
     
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    Sister and Russian cousin catches any problems almost immediately. The power of herd immunity. You do not need Bill Gates virus antivirus.
     
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    Downloading from trusted sources/crackers and from trusted places, every leecher or torrent sites have a chance to fill up your computer with malware.
     
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    symlink arguments with google translate to english are hilarious sometimes though
     
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    if no one can share a Link there is no point I posting it here then...all I can say is that its a Russian site, 8 people had this issue where their drives where wiped due to a terminal command repacked in the waves 13( the original has no terminal command ) I used google chrome to translate it..

    I am not surprised at all, one person had a hard drive to test stuff and re installed from a aback up and related the command line again while recording a video, sudo rm -rf / Library / Application \ Support / Waves / WavesLocalServer

    If you add sudo to the rm -rf command, you are deleting files with root power.

    I used chrome to translate the Russian to English... I guess any terminal command can fool the average person as most don't know what they are.
     
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    I see your point and understand your lack of knowledge with the Apple - Linux system.

    You can erase your whole library folder yet anything open will run as normal until you restart.,

    The command line added to a waves 13 package was this,
    sudo rm -rf / Library / Application \ Support / Waves / WavesLocalServer

    also
    sudo rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/Waves/WavesLocalServer
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    killall WavesLocalServer & rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/Waves/WavesLocalServer

    It appears to just be a way to remove the WAVES local Server, but it did allot more once people used them.

    If you add sudo to the rm -rf command, you are deleting files with root power.

    The site digital ocean dot com explains these tricks as well
     
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    Live links are not allowed, but you can type it differently, for instance audiozdotdownload. :winker:
     
  19. Justin-Cydeher

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    that link is just to explain the sudo command line

    Its a Russian site, as I said you need google translate on, I am not into cracked stuff but I am interested in how to protect my machine from developers who are skilled at it.
     
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    Old topic, old question, but I also noticed A LOT of producers that were """forced""" to go legit because they had plenty of issues with malwares, etc. These people are basically ignorant when it comes to the digital world and the whole notion that cracked software is SUPER dangerous, will steal your data, kill your brother and caress your mother comes (in great part) from these people. No one deals with malware if they know what they're doing.

    There's always the chance, I'm not saying that it doesn't happens, but its derisory in my experience.
     
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