@piracy How do i check if a crack is safe or not?

I’m trying to install a cracked version of davinci resolve on my pc, but I don’t know if it’s safe. is there a way to check easily?

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    • Fracture@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      This is a good idea and a good practice in my opinion. Some malicious code detects when it’s being sandboxed and hides itself until it’s running somewhere it can do damage though.

      • 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 months ago

        Once malware is VM aware it can also get outside a VM. Furthermore, malware can be written to seat itself comfortably in your PC and lay low for hours, days, weeks before becoming active. Installing in a VM and waiting for shit to hit the fan is not always reliable.

        • bamboo@lemm.ee
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          Getting out of a VM reliably is not usually trivial, and VM escapes are usually designed to target specific configurations rather than an arbitrary deployment. A VM with a minimum amount of shared resources is usually a reasonable security boundary unless you think the malware you’re analyzing has hypervisor-specific 0 days.

        • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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          the malware has to be very advanced and specifically target your hypervisor version to escape a VM.

          in the context of cracked software, it is highly improbable that you’ll find malware with this capabilities.