Most antivirus I tested, even the paid ones, are so annoying with popups and complaining about cracks that I just take the risk and go without em
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
If u are on Linux I recommend using firejail on the executable
Obviously he is not on linux
ClamAV is an open source antivirus
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.
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 somethingmalwarebytes 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.
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 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.
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Think it’s also important that it’s not a resource hog. None are perfect but I recommend ESET.
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.
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
Just don’t use one. Just don’t download anything dodgy and you’re golden.
