Re:Microsoft Office 2010: Can’t be activated anymore?
by ajsnigrutin on Sunday August 01, 2021 @09:30AM
(#28026115)
The risk is always there... but you can always check the hash of the iso, if it's the same as on microsofts site, and then check the crack/patch/activator/... on virustotal.
Movies, series, music,.. are usually in file formats not really suitable to carry malware (unless you click on the movie.mp4.exe, but most tech-savy users, who know how to pirate, also know not to do that).
Re:Microsoft Office 2010: Can’t be activated anymore?
by TheAdamAndChe on Sunday August 01, 2021 @08:13PM
(#28031534)
As an IT security professional, depending on virus total and other sites is a pretty horrible idea. It's trivial to use msfvenom to encrypt a trojan and get it executed on a system, at least for a while until it gets recognized by some cloud platform.
Re:Microsoft Office 2010: Can’t be activated anymore?
by wizzwizz4 on Sunday August 01, 2021 @09:57AM
(#28026264)
> Movies, series, music,.. are usually in file formats not really suitable to carry malware
A few audio file formats are (practically) Turing-complete, and there have before been bugs in the VMs that allow privilege escalation.
I do seriously ask because I avoid pirating stuff because I'm never sure what's there
and yes, I do believe that shady sites are more likely to add some fancy stuff like coin miners to their stuff than actual e.g game vendors like CDPR and similar.