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Removing Malwate/ Virus from Cracked .EXE

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:24 pm
by mytunes
Please delete if not allowed...

So I found a cracked version of win ols 4.7 floating around on the webs...

It uses the standard E VC installer, but then uses a cracked (chinese) version of the .exe file to run it.

Virus Total shows some stuff with the .exe (gee can't imagine that):https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/845 ... d/behavior

It is beyond my capability to dissect the .EXE and possibly the one .DLL file to remove said garbage, so I thought i'd ask if any of you gents could take a go at it.

If so, i'm more than happy to share the file on here...

Re: Removing Malwate/ Virus from Cracked .EXE

Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:47 am
by BennVenn
It's a whole lot less effort just to set up a VM and run it in there. Pass through whatever hardware you need but keep that chinese crap isolated. It's the same with the chinese K-tag and pretty much anything from there. They may be false positives but not worth the headache. A lot of that software must be run in Win7 mode or earlier anyway. I use pastebin and other file sharing sites to transfer binaries from the VM back to my main machine.

Re: Removing Malwate/ Virus from Cracked .EXE

Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:46 pm
by antus
Ill leave this for now because its good general advice for any software, but please support the original companies that make this software. If I change my mind or we receive complaints i'll delete the thread. This forum is a place for free tools and knowledge, not piracy.

Re: Removing Malwate/ Virus from Cracked .EXE

Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:02 pm
by mytunes
BennVenn wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:47 am It's a whole lot less effort just to set up a VM and run it in there. Pass through whatever hardware you need but keep that chinese crap isolated. It's the same with the chinese K-tag and pretty much anything from there. They may be false positives but not worth the headache. A lot of that software must be run in Win7 mode or earlier anyway. I use pastebin and other file sharing sites to transfer binaries from the VM back to my main machine.
I could be wrong, but I thought some of the new virus's and such could somehow port through VM Ware?

Re: Removing Malwate/ Virus from Cracked .EXE

Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:06 pm
by mytunes
antus wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:46 pm Ill leave this for now because its good general advice for any software, but please support the original companies that make this software. If I change my mind or we receive complaints i'll delete the thread. This forum is a place for free tools and knowledge, not piracy.
Thank you, and I normally do try to support vendors, this is one that I would rarely use right now, when I get to a point where I would use it more I will definitely purchase it.

Re: Removing Malwate/ Virus from Cracked .EXE

Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:04 pm
by antus
mytunes wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:02 pm I could be wrong, but I thought some of the new virus's and such could somehow port through VM Ware?
You may be thinking of this, stay up to date and you should be OK.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/0 ... abilities/