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    Default KeyGen is a virus!

    Heeey!,If you know what KeyGen is then I have to say something to you.

    Here you have a information about KeyGen by Wikipedia


    Problems with Keygens

    See also: Product activation

    Legal issues aside, there are two major issues in using keygens: Product activation and online key verification.

    Keys generated with a key generator may not work with software that is used online, including downloading software updates. This is because the user must confirm their serial number every time the software connects to the server, and the key may be invalid for various reasons.

    One reason is that the cracker may have misinterpreted the original algorithm, creating a key that was "good enough" to let the software be installed, but not letting all possible future generated keys be valid.

    Another reason may be that the software developers only accept keys that they know were distributed with the media during production, or had been issued with an online registration, causing a cryptographically correct key to still be denied.

    A third reason could be a secondary unpublished algorithm that is used by the vendor, e.g., to extend the previous example, the characters 0, 7, 9, C, and K are never allowed. The software that confirms the key on the user's machine does not know these numbers and characters are not allowed, and will accept the keygen output, but the online confirmation fails.

    Keys for massively multiplayer online games are different; usually each key is uniquely generated by the producer and included with the product, usually in a tamper-proof medium such as a scratch card or tamper-proof envelope. These keys will usually become uniquely linked to a certain game account upon usage and are rendered "useless" by this process. Therefore, MMOGs are not usually subject to piracy.

    Keygens may also contain viruses (depending on whom they are downloaded from). When the program is opened, instead of providing a valid key, the program may install harmful software on the computer on which it was installed.


    BE CAREFUL!

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    Also, virus scan ALL .exe files you download at http://www.virustotal.com!

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    Meh, Virus scanners are all but useless IMO. At one time in their history they could keep up with the creation of new viruses, but no more. I could count on one hand the number of times a virus scanner has prevented me from getting a virus.

    If you don't want a virus, don't run random programs you find off the Internet.

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    What?!?!!?

    Keygens can have a virus in them!?!?

    OH EM GEE!!!!

    der, executables have viruses....just use common internet sense and you'll survive...and a scanner
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    Yeah,KeyGen can have very much viruses. I have one without viruses, but most of them have viruses! I had 3 KeyGen with viruses I deleted them so quick I could

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    Quote Originally Posted by Riffe View Post
    Yeah,KeyGen can have very much viruses. I have one without viruses, but most of them have viruses! I had 3 KeyGen with viruses I deleted them so quick I could
    Solution: Buy Software.
    Realistic Solution: Get yourself into a private torrent site.

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    This is new to me! not really


    When i'm in need of a serial, and cant be bothered with shedding out a few hundread $$$, I merly head on over to a um well known serial website which requires you to download nothing, and has thousands of serials on :-).
    Can argue that sites will never be as good as Keygens, but some times you just don't wanna risk ya system!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MineOrChop View Post
    This is new to me! not really


    When i'm in need of a serial, and cant be bothered with shedding out a few hundread $$$, I merly head on over to a um well known serial website which requires you to download nothing, and has thousands of serials on :-).
    Can argue that sites will never be as good as Keygens, but some times you just don't wanna risk ya system!
    Or, learn to crack software yourself. ^_^

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    Quote Originally Posted by shynie View Post
    Or, learn to crack software yourself. ^_^
    That just takes time and effort (I also do not really, have the patience nor the concintration todo so)

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    Quote Originally Posted by MineOrChop View Post
    That just takes time and effort (I also do not really, have the patience nor the concintration todo so)
    Me neither. I just like to create an illusion that I can be bothered to do these things. :]

    wait a minute..

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    Just get on an invite-only site that uploads only scene releases(not like Demonoid, they are basically public), and you will have 0 virus's... For example, here's a list of a bunch of files that were released & none of them include a virus:
    http://pastebin.com/m71c411ac

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    Lol, the first thing I noticed on your list was porn
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    jesus can u hook me up with an invite to that site?

    ontopic, it just really depends what site u go to, if u go to a dodgy site to get serials u will get a virus its how it is



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    Lol you think we didnt know people place virus on the interernet desigused at keygens ect..? we are not that dumb.

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    stupid topic waste of space we all know

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    Quote Originally Posted by NiCbaZ View Post
    Lol you think we didnt know people place virus on the interernet desigused at keygens ect..? we are not that dumb.
    Oh you would be surprised at some people.

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    This thread is retarded. "KeyGen is a virus!" .. You're talking like as if there is only 1 keygen out there and everyone knows there can be crap on them. To be honest anything you download can have stuff added to it that you don't know about.

    The people that make patchers/keygens and whatnot are often most likely capable of making trojans, viruses etc. too, and as they don't really get any profit from making them (except respect from other people on the same "business"), so I sort of see the point in backdooring 'em..

    Another option is that the keygen/crack/patcher or whatever you have has been re-uploaded by someone else that's added something nasty in it, rather than the original author.

    Be smart and always scan executable files on virustotal, novirusthanks, jotti or something else alike, but don't rely 100% on them too as people have (private/"commercial") packers, crypters etc. to make the viruses UD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoF View Post
    This thread is retarded. "KeyGen is a virus!" .. You're talking like as if there is only 1 keygen out there and everyone knows there can be crap on them. To be honest anything you download can have stuff added to it that you don't know about.

    The people that make patchers/keygens and whatnot are often most likely capable of making trojans, viruses etc. too, and as they don't really get any profit from making them (except respect from other people on the same "business"), so I sort of see the point in backdooring 'em..

    Another option is that the keygen/crack/patcher or whatever you have has been re-uploaded by someone else that's added something nasty in it, rather than the original author.

    Be smart and always scan executable files on virustotal, novirusthanks, jotti or something else alike, but don't rely 100% on them too as people have (private/"commercial") packers, crypters etc. to make the viruses UD.
    As I stated above, you would have no idea how stupid some people can be

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    thx for the information.

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    Quote Originally Posted by georgegeorge View Post
    thx for the information.
    You're welcome ^_^

    The SRL Community is here to help :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by shynie View Post
    You're welcome ^_^

    The SRL Community is here to help :P
    L O L!

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    Erm... downloadcrackserial is the best place to downlod the best keygens from.
    Just because you got a virus from your little mistakes doen't meen you have to post they all have viruses.

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    /facedesk

    ZOH MA GAWD THA KEYZGENERATORZ FOR PHREE MMORPG'S HAZ TEH VIRUS :'( WAH WAH.

    use common sense. why use a keygen when you can google for "program name" serial.txt?

    lol. the power of google.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neros View Post
    /facedesk

    ZOH MA GAWD THA KEYZGENERATORZ FOR PHREE MMORPG'S HAZ TEH VIRUS :'( WAH WAH.

    use common sense. why use a keygen when you can google for "program name" serial.txt?

    lol. the power of google.
    The last post in this thread was in 2008. Try not to grave dig old threads next time.

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