And if you use it on your home computer and do not create any commercial product with the pirated programs, you may keep calm – it is tough to detect that you use exactly unlicensed games. Using cracked games is an outlaw action in all civilized countries. Bad perspective, isn’t it? Breaking the law with cracked programs
Because of modern trends through malware, you will get every malware mentioned earlier inside the single app. However, in most cases of malware injection through the cracked games, users get a full-house: trojan-stealer, trojan-backdoor, trojan-downloader, worm, virus, and, finally, ransomware.
It may be something non-critical, like adware or browser hijacker. And their type and severity depend only on the size of the reward promised to the hacker by malware developers. McAfee is going to install as a part of games bundleīut, besides free trash bag-like apps, computer pirates can add different malicious apps. Such apps are more annoying than harmful, but their usage may be dangerous because of wrong actions in tight places, like the registry or Group Policies. It can be whatever – antiviruses (Segurazo, Santivirus, McAfee, Avast, et cetera), “fast and comfortable browsers”, different utilities with or without practical use, etc. Many small developers distribute their programs as a part of the games bundle. Which programs? Ones whose developers agreed to pay the pirate for this operation. To solve this problem, hackers add several programs to the initial package. However, he will not have any profit in such a scenario. The process of cracking the games Why are cracked programs dangerous?Īfter the described modification hacker can distribute his program for the wide pirate public. Hence, a hacker is able to find this code and modify it in a specific way : he creates a specific “jump” on the license checking stage, so the operation will be simply skipped, and the program will think it is activated 1. But the code responsible for this operation is stored inside the program’s root directory. Such a check may be performed exclusively on the user’s PC and using a PC and a server where all data about licenses is stored. Specifying the cracked gfames originsĮvery not-freeware program has its own license checking mechanism. Let me explain which ways I am talking about and why using unlicensed games is bad. But didn’t you think that computer pirates want to have money to live, too? To have this essential option, they profit in other illegal and possibly harmful ways. This factor is a reason for cracked games’ popularity in 3rd world countries.
Of course, the main advantage of cracked apps is that they are completely free. Programs cracked by them can be easily downloaded on the Internet. This sentence, in different alterations, is often used by computer pirates. Another one may crack everything that one human ever created.
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