Any Idea what these could be from?

[Chaos Network]

I Havent installed/downloaded anything (other than twitch vods of my own) in about a week and a half. I religiously do DAILY scans with windows defender and it never flags anything. Just randomly today while im in a game it gives me a popup like "HEY YOU HAVE THREATS"

 

Any idea what these could be from? I dont download cheats for my games or anything. The most "suspicious" thing ive downloaded recently was GenP (an adobe cracker, thats VERY reputable) but that was about a month and a half ago. Most recent thing i installed was OperaGX about a week and a half ago.

 

[C2dan88]

14 minutes ago, Chaos Network said:

The most "suspicious" thing ive downloaded recently was GenP (an adobe cracker, thats VERY reputable) but that was about a month and a half ago.

You just answered your own question. Defender has flagged the crack used as a trojan.

[Chaos Network]

2 minutes ago, C2dan88 said:

You just answered your own question. Defender has flagged the crack used as a trojan.

Why would it take a month and a half to flag that?

[C2dan88]

Most likely that cracked was redistributed elsewhere and bundled with malware. So now defender recognises the use of that crack as potential trojen. Could be Adobe paying MS to flag the use of it as trojan. You dont know.

 

Lesson learned pay for the shit you want to use to stay legit. Or seek free alternatives. Simples.

[Chaos Network]

2 minutes ago, C2dan88 said:

Most likely that cracked was redistributed elsewhere and bundled with malware. So now defender recognises the use of that crack as potential trojen. Could be Adobe paying MS to flag the use of it as trojan. You dont know.

 

Lesson learned pay for the shit you want to use to stay legit. Or seek free alternatives. Simples.

Free alternatives to photoshop and premiere pro are GARBAGE, and im a broke 23 year old, i aint payin adobe $50/month so i can enjoy my hobby of content creation.

I also got the "crack" (its more of a patcher not a crack) from the "official" source of GenP. Theyve been around as long as Creative Cloud has been. they are as reputable as it gets when it comes to cracking/patching

[whispous]

4 minutes ago, Chaos Network said:

Free alternatives to photoshop and premiere pro are GARBAGE, and im a broke 23 year old, i aint payin adobe $50/month so i can enjoy my hobby of content creation.

I also got the "crack" (its more of a patcher not a crack) from the "official" source of GenP. Theyve been around as long as Creative Cloud has been. they are as reputable as it gets when it comes to cracking/patching

You not being able to afford the software is irrelevant. If it has some form of malware, it has some form of malware.

 

It's a crack. There are no reputable cracks, that's an oxymoron

[jaslion]

15 minutes ago, whispous said:

You not being able to afford the software is irrelevant. If it has some form of malware, it has some form of malware.

 

It's a crack. There are no reputable cracks, that's an oxymoron

That and most cracks are flagged as a trojan/malware because of the way they have to operate to crack it.

 

That and well duhh adobe pays the anti virus peeps to flag em as unsafe because well thats kinda obvious

 

As for op time for malwarebytes!

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

30 minutes ago, Chaos Network said:

Free alternatives to photoshop and premiere pro are GARBAGE, and im a broke 23 year old, i aint payin adobe $50/month so i can enjoy my hobby of content creation.

I also got the "crack" (its more of a patcher not a crack) from the "official" source of GenP. Theyve been around as long as Creative Cloud has been. they are as reputable as it gets when it comes to cracking/patching

Well that's the risky game you play for going this route. Like how sketchy sites with free movies often have questionable ads that take advantage of system exploits and insecurities. 

[avidgamer121]

hacktool is not necessarily a virus. Antiviruses are well known for marking cracked software as virus. So it's just a false positive in disguise.

[Killjoy_NS]

Try to exclude those files IF YOU need them.
Than try to rename them.
It works sometimes.

Win Defender is stupid.

A long time ago, I "wrote" bat file with showing me my IP (ipconfig /all) and stuff.....and I was curious.
I renamed file into keygen.exe.......Win Defender went NUTS!
I've seen it with my own eyes....

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

21 hours ago, avidgamer121 said:

hacktool is not necessarily a virus. Antiviruses are well known for marking cracked software as virus. So it's just a false positive in disguise.

Not always. There are cracking software with legitimate malware bundled in, almost always when it's a redistributed crack. 

[avidgamer121]

39 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Not always. There are cracking software with legitimate malware bundled in, almost always when it's a redistributed crack. 

you know, i don't want to argue about it. But millions of people around the world use them without any issues.

[Avocado Diaboli]

1 hour ago, avidgamer121 said:

you know, i don't want to argue about it. But millions of people around the world use them without any issues.

Why reply if you don't want to argue? Just to get the last word in? Being infected and part of a dormant botnet is a real possibility. Downplaying the risks of cracks is negligent. Congratulations that you haven't had any problems as a result of using software cracks. That's still no justification to pretend like there's no risk involved.

[avidgamer121]

2 hours ago, Avocado Diaboli said:

Why reply if you don't want to argue? Just to get the last word in? Being infected and part of a dormant botnet is a real possibility. Downplaying the risks of cracks is negligent. Congratulations that you haven't had any problems as a result of using software cracks. That's still no justification to pretend like there's no risk involved.

everything has certain amount of degree of risk involved, even windows itself.