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Any recommendation on antivirus that isn't annoying and don't give false positive on cracks? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I think the point is that it's a bit silly to classify cracks as malware

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not at all, a crack does something to an executable file that you use. Malware would do the exact same thing.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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 🤷

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I definitely get what you mean, I just have no idea if antivirus tools flag anything that looks like it modifies executables. My edit to the comment you're replying to may not have propagated to your instance yet, so here's what I added:

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 🤷

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Enterprise antivirus products have had PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) category forever. Seems its categorized as "HackTool" so not malware.