People trust too much

[e980238]

dont know if this is the right category for this post......

I cant belive what some people do or their reasoning for doing it. I over heard this guy at school bragging about how he downloaded the latest version of auto cad through kazaa.

First of all, I would not trust any "warez" software because who knows what kind of trojens they put into it. Second, from kazaa??? Thats just ASKING for software with trojans in it. Third, its just wrong to steal!

I jumped into the conversation and mentioned the bit about trojans and he said "Oh really? Thats ok, I format my machine regularly anyway." Meanwhile, some 13 year old is taking over his computer and using it to hack into some corporation without him even knowing it.

Is it just me that realizes what kind of "bad code" could be placed into these pirited softwares or does any one else feel the same?

[MatrixmaN]

Everytime I download the latest version of expensive Illegal software off of IMESH I check it with Norton Antivirus 2003 **cough**

[DPA]

i find it rather funny that autocad is available through kazaa, obviously a sign that a piece of software costs too much.

Often when software is run through a common P2P program, trojans, viruses, and worms are like .dll's they're so common.

truthfully if someone wants to risk this kind of software damage, they'd install it on a computer that does not connect, this way the software cannot register itself to the manufacturer and cracks can work.

I personally think its idiocy to download anything on kazaa except in rare instances where a movie is so foreign it cannot be had anywhere but there [which has happened to me a few times]

You'd be suprised how clean much of the hardware "warez" is, upon an expedition of mine to bankok thailand, about 99% of all software there is pirated and clean as a whistle, i was floored. I suppose things are different in countries that tolorate mass theft.

[e980238]

well what you do in your spare time is up to you MatrixmaN. But norton will only catch a virus if it has definitions for it. Someone could write thier own trojan that is not defined by norton to be a virus.

[OuTpaTienT]

Not true e980238. Norton, as well as most aniti-virus software, also looks for specific types of patterns within the code, looking for suspicious or malicious code. So even stuff not in it's definitions will usually be caught.

[e980238]

OuTpaTienT,

Oh I did not know that. That is good to know though.

[Epyon9283]

I wouldn't trust any anti virus software to detect a virus that wasn't in it's definitions. There's probably a good reason why they still virus definitions.

[OuTpaTienT]

The reason definitions are still used is speed. It practically takes no time at all for AV software to scan a system for pre-defined code. It's takes MUCH longer to look for patterns of code that might be possible viruses.

[inzzane]

Putting in my .02, I religiously scan everything downloaded from kazaa or any other programs like it.
I have always used nortons, and have rarely encountered any virus's making it through to my system. I would have to say it has caught 99% of all virus's and the other percent was usually just because I hadn't update my definitions.

[inzzane]

p.s. of course that was all reference freeware and shareware *cough*