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Hi..
thanks for the comment on the Guardian article. However if you think about it, there's no way that antivirus or antispyware is going to catch the programs that have been written by the pirates and embedded into the "free" stuff.
1) it will be custom-written, most likely. The keygen was infected here.
2) because of that, it's not going to get spotted.
3) even if it is spotted, and the AV throws an alert, is an inexperienced user who's just downloaded it off a P2P network really going to know that it's not just saying "hey, where did you get that"? People have made such mistakes.
Thanks again for the comments. Well, the "respectable newspapers" bit anyhow.
Charles Arthur, Technology editor, The Guardian
Hi..
thanks for the comment on the Guardian article. However if you think about it, there's no way that antivirus or antispyware is going to catch the programs that have been written by the pirates and embedded into the "free" stuff.
1) it will be custom-written, most likely. The keygen was infected here.
2) because of that, it's not going to get spotted.
3) even if it is spotted, and the AV throws an alert, is an inexperienced user who's just downloaded it off a P2P network really going to know that it's not just saying "hey, where did you get that"? People have made such mistakes.
Thanks again for the comments. Well, the "respectable newspapers" bit anyhow.
Charles Arthur, Technology editor, The Guardian
