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You're not going to find an AV that doesn't flag modifications as virus/malware. That's kind of the definition of malicious behaviour by a program.
Hell, Windows itself will overwrite changes you make to certain exscutables/dll's, etc, with its own file protection system.
Test your cracks in a VM. Then use them as needed, or do the cracking in a VM.
How do you know they're false positives?
Windows defender claimed they're bad because they are cracks, and doesn't mention any reason it thinks that would be a virus/trojan or something I dont want
"HackTool:Win32/crack" from games downloaded on fitgirl repacks site (the correct one)
Windows defender only lets you whitelist by file, folder, or process. You could whitelist a specific folder, but if you want to whitelist by category you'll have to use a different antivirus product.
i don't think that's possible mate for 2 reasons :
- software companys pay antivirus software makers to flag and remove game cracks
- cracks use obfuscation and workaround techniques that are similar to whats used in viruses so most flag them as mallisious
So what you are saying you want a shitty AV that would not recognize a potentially malicious executable? Any normal AV should flag crack as a potential threat due to what it does.
Stick with Defender and whitelist executables you trust. This is computing 101.
If u are on Linux I recommend using firejail on the executable
Obviously he is not on linux
malwarebytes will flag cracks like all the others but when I used to clean computers for a living, it rarely gave a false positive and found the most bullshit on Windows pcs. This was a few years back so I don't keep up with how it is these days.
Use the megathread, it has lists of trusted providers (goat symbol).
Of course, that's not good enough, so my "antivirus" is to use an entirely separate device for gaming/piracy and a lower power device for production and work. If my gaming device gets compromised, the attacker will just know how many hours I spend in vampire survivors :)
the attacker will just know how many hours I spend in vampire survivors :)
You could prevent this by telling us now.
You're not going to find an antivirus that isn't intrusive because that is their entire duty. However, Kaspersky has a very high malware detection rate compared to other AV solutions
I sometimes think about disabling defender I think theres a site that can do it. Downside is it'll probably break windows but yeah it annoys me it's always wasting my battery plus yeah it throws fits over things like cracks
Last time I was mad enough to think about this it wasn't even a crack it was Autohotkey it didn't like.
Think it's also important that it's not a resource hog. None are perfect but I recommend ESET.
This is impossible, all antivirus will give false positive sometimes and they will be annoying since they need to be intrusive to "catch" some virus
I haven't used an Antivirus in years... That's one advantage of GNU OS's. I run cracks inside sandboxes which then run Wine and DXVK for compatibility.
I use ESET and rate of false positives is very low for me (as long as you disable detect "potentially unwanted applications", it asks during installation).
probably I will be punished for this comment but: Kaspersky
second best AV is Malwarebytes,
there is a subreddit for ranking them r/antivirus or something
Just don't use one. Just don't download anything dodgy and you're golden.
They just said they were downloading arbitrary binaries to execute
Where?
He's downloading cracks or cracked executables
The cracking groups aren't exactly signing their work with a verifiable public key
Yeah but that should be okay as long as he's getting it from legitimate places (rarbg, official fitgirl site, cs.rin.ru, rutracker etc).
I've not had an AV for like 10+ years, had defender disabled with GPO as soon as I installed W10 and had no issues.
The best AV is your brain. Obviously if you download GTA_6 _(Brazil)_by_xP3tYa1337x.pdf.html with an embedded .hta directly from an IP address in Kamchatka and you have IE installed then yeah maybe you need to give things a manual scan pass with defender or malwarebytes (or just toss it in a VM) once in a while but otherwise you're golden.
Even most vulns today labeled 0day are either unexploitable or require the user to be a dumb motherfucker.
Trust me.