Hi folks,

from time to time, I randomly scan downloads for malware, and this recent one was quite interesting, flagging some old shares from sister site (Rational Acoustics Smaart v7.2.1.1 from 2011 or PowerISO 8.3 R2R for ex.),

question is more academical:
let's say (sister) site removes/replaces genuinely flawed shares with safe ones, how can a casual user know?

and bonus question:
let's say files can become infected/altered when stored on an end-user device, is there some kind of hash/md5/checksums at sister site?

cheers

 

If you download from trusted releaser, and if we talk about R2R releases, they can not be altered/infected since there is just 2 of people or 4 of them who exclusively release R2R apps and no one except them have not access to the R2R releases.
Therefore they are safe 100% but the way they operate e.g. keygen for poweriso is always flagged as a malware even though is 100% clean, so if you download from trusted sources(people) there is no need to worry, because R2R would never do something to harm users.
As long as we talk about R2R and trusted releasers no worry. I was worried about Native Instruments keygen flagged all the time from Kaspersky and I strongly trust Kaspersky, but it was false positive, because there was no pointed what threat , rather was flagged as generic/potentially unwanted software etc. All other AV except Kaspersky, Eset, Bitdefender, should not be used and taken as trustworthy sources.

 

I'm no expert by any means, but keygens almost always trigger AV. It even happens on my Mac with .exe keygen files! That's funny! I sometimes wonder if it's a concerted effort by AV developers to curb piracy. But I'm no expert.

 

We dont do this, so now you know.

 

for rational acoustics, virustotal shows 0 hits for the keygen and 1/63 hits for the smaart7setup (and that only because it is packed)
what are you seeing that makes you think these things have viruses? I'd be concerned that you have something infecting these things on your own PC

 

been knowing you for a while one of the very cool peeps one of my favorite people to be direct i met on here one of the first i met on here but don't for a second start thinking like the other guys been thinking about this site having malware on they software and keygens don't even do it .....all type of downloads been setting off triggers for years now all of sudden it's a big deal this is a cracked site we use keygens and softwares for years u have to understand download at your own risk this site is very well trusted and have a good reputation of having good downloads thats just what it is nothing else after that i can't change nothing u cant either or anybody else .... if yall don't listen u going to keep making threads about malware on this site i know how shit spreads aint nothing wrong u been downloading from this site before i even knew this site existed and you never had no issues so u know bro @tzzsmk you safe here and you know it ...

 

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what im saying don't give people the space to even talk about this shit don't even entertain the malware title because they going to try to make this site look bad like we don't give a shit about people and as if we allow uploaders from Audioz to mess they computers up @tzzsmk

 

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I think you still need to remain objective and vigilant about possible infected files. No one site can completely guarantee that it's completely clean! Yes, the sister site is most likely the best around today. But is it truly infallible? Actually, nothing is!

 

I apologize if my words look like shedding bad light or disrespecting sister site, that's completely apart from my intention,
you know I'm usually honest, so better ask than doubt

I'm just curious on technical/academic matter, and @clone pretty much explained perfectly, thanks!

broken/shady releases do get removed (and that is a good thing): https://audiosex.pro/threads/audio-modeling.72478/


just one last question: would it make any sense (for a sister site, uploaders...) to password-protect archives to increase their security/integrity, or it's worthless additional step?

 

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I was aswering to this:

He unfortunately mixed to many thing in this sentence...
We dont modify / replace the releases.

But yes we remove the bad ones, which generally are not signed by any team.