Most antivirus I tested, even the paid ones, are so annoying with popups and complaining about cracks that I just take the risk and go without em
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You’re not going to find an AV that doesn’t flag modifications as virus/malware. That’s kind of the definition of malicious behaviour by a program.
Hell, Windows itself will overwrite changes you make to certain exscutables/dll’s, etc, with its own file protection system.
Test your cracks in a VM. Then use them as needed, or do the cracking in a VM.
i don’t think that’s possible mate for 2 reasons :
- software companys pay antivirus software makers to flag and remove game cracks
- cracks use obfuscation and workaround techniques that are similar to whats used in viruses so most flag them as mallisious
So what you are saying you want a shitty AV that would not recognize a potentially malicious executable? Any normal AV should flag crack as a potential threat due to what it does.
Stick with Defender and whitelist executables you trust. This is computing 101.
Most antivirus software is more sketchy than random cracks.
Use the megathread, it has lists of trusted providers (goat symbol).
Of course, that’s not good enough, so my “antivirus” is to use an entirely separate device for gaming/piracy and a lower power device for production and work. If my gaming device gets compromised, the attacker will just know how many hours I spend in vampire survivors :)
the attacker will just know how many hours I spend in vampire survivors :)
You could prevent this by telling us now.
How do you know they’re false positives?
Windows defender claimed they’re bad because they are cracks, and doesn’t mention any reason it thinks that would be a virus/trojan or something I dont want
“HackTool:Win32/crack” from games downloaded on fitgirl repacks site (the correct one)
Isn’t that a matter of behavior? The crack is doing something expected from a crack and the system warns you because most wouldn’t use it without being aware. If you really trust the file, add it as an exception.
Or do you want a software that can vet good cracks from bad cracks?
I think the point is that it’s a bit silly to classify cracks as malware
Cracks modify executables…classic malware/virus behaviour. Almost the definition of malware.
Which is why windows uses a file protection system since at least XP
Not at all, a crack does something to an executable file that you use. Malware would do the exact same thing.
But you generally want that crack to do something to an executable. Do antivirus etc. tools just heuristically flag everything that looks like it modifies an executable? Lots of legitimate dev tools do that too, so it seems like it’d give a lot of false positives, but I haven’t used Windows in ages so 🤷
Well, how is the system supposed to know that you want the crack to do something to that executable? The anti virus just sees something is happening and flags it. It does not see a difference.
Enterprise antivirus products have had PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) category forever. Seems its categorized as “HackTool” so not malware.
Windows defender only lets you whitelist by file, folder, or process. You could whitelist a specific folder, but if you want to whitelist by category you’ll have to use a different antivirus product.
I haven’t used an Antivirus in years… That’s one advantage of GNU OS’s. I run cracks inside sandboxes which then run Wine and DXVK for compatibility.
You’re not going to find an antivirus that isn’t intrusive because that is their entire duty. However, Kaspersky has a very high malware detection rate compared to other AV solutions
ClamAV is an open source antivirus
This is impossible, all antivirus will give false positive sometimes and they will be annoying since they need to be intrusive to “catch” some virus
probably I will be punished for this comment but: Kaspersky
second best AV is Malwarebytes,
there is a subreddit for ranking them r/antivirus or somethingIf u are on Linux I recommend using firejail on the executable
Obviously he is not on linux
I use ESET and rate of false positives is very low for me (as long as you disable detect “potentially unwanted applications”, it asks during installation).
Think it’s also important that it’s not a resource hog. None are perfect but I recommend ESET.
