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The bad news? Ninety percent of game hacks are infected with malware. The good news? No one over the age of 14 uses hacks anymore.

The April AVG Insight reveals how the AVG Viruslab Research Group has identified that more than 90% of all unauthorized ‘hacks’ for major computer games are infected with malware. These hacks take many forms, including cheats, patches and ‘keygens’ that enable use of pirated games, but all are designed to appeal to players looking to either accelerate their in-game process or get something for free. However, while the hacks may appear attractive at first glance, most are created by cybercriminals looking to pry, disrupt or steal.
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^^^ def that, I was also thinking that they're referring to programs that CLAIM to be hacks/cracks and are just malware -- sort of like googling for mp3s / movies will lead to viruses.
 
I recon that because most trainers have to sit resident in memory and screw with data while in memory that they look malicious in the eyes of an AV program.
 
This is because 90% of game hacks and cheats and keygens are simply classified as malware to begin with!
 
I have a lifetime membership to CheatHappens. They make trainers for the single player part of many games.

All their trainers are detected as viruses. Why? Because they have to maliciously inject themselves into the .exe file to work properly. It's the same way Cheat Engine works, it injects it's code into the .exe. It doesn't jump up as a virus though because it's not searching on it's own for processes and trying to inject it self automatically. The user is the one who is doing the searching and just injecting certain pieces of code.
 
Heh, I remember when you could rename a normal harmless file keygen.exe and virus scanners would have a fit.
 
I was gonna chime in, but then i saw that it was AVG.

I think that by this point we all have "AVG Stories"... damn, it used to be "good enough" <.<
 
If every single player game came with cheat codes, there would be no use for these things (well except the pirating stuff).
 
+1 on the false positives, AVS always cries when something is packed with UPX, like AutoIt scripts.
 
:you don't say:

It's funny when I read posts about malware infections made by people who think it's "unavoidable", the kind who reformat every few months for that and other reasons.
 
As others already said, most of those detections of malware are false positives.... So the people posting the article are idiots....

And, these days, hacks are almost useless as most games people care about are multiple player/online which require legit keys.
 
boden11 said:
^^^ def that, I was also thinking that they're referring to programs that CLAIM to be hacks/cracks and are just malware -- sort of like googling for mp3s / movies will lead to viruses.
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I'm sure that bloated the count...

Revdarian said:
I was gonna chime in, but then i saw that it was AVG.

I think that by this point we all have "AVG Stories"... damn, it used to be "good enough" <.<
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Wait, so what's the new "best free AV" since AVG is apparently no good anymore...?
 
PC games pretty cheap if on sale, worth it to just buy it, but I kinda get why people do pirate especially if there's no demo out for that game.
 
I remember when all you had to know were a few console commands to cheat in a single player game. It was always fun to go back and replay a game with some cheats enabled. It made the games have a nice replay value.
Here are a few old school codes from back in the day. Does anyone recognize them?
idkfa, god, noclip
/impulse 101
blorb, cia, flygirl
mpgod, mpmech, mptears
honostbob, mitzi, twilight
 
Conker's had the best. That game was so fucking awesome, especially multiplayer.

DRACULASTEABAGS
DUTCHOVENS
BEELZEBUBSBUM
BEEFCURTAINS
PRINCEALBERT
RUSTYSHERIFFSBADGE
SPUNKJOCKEY
CHOCOLATESTARFISH
 
Ashton said:
Wait, so what's the new "best free AV" since AVG is apparently no good anymore...?
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Avira is better for starters.


Seriously AVG has way too many false positives, heck for a time they used to consider that if it had code with the flame language jewish font it was a malware outright -.-"

I stopped using it long ago because of too many annoyances with false positives and lack of detection of real threats.
 
MSE sees alot of cracks as just that... a "hack/crack" Is a hack/crack in the malware category? Perhaps that why. Doesnt necessarily mean its actually a virus or the like.
 
I personally like MSE. It does not feel very intrusive. I hate how Norton, AVG, McAfee, are constantly popping up with warnings and updates. MSE is integrated into Windows update.
 
Typically if it cuts into some big software company's idea of how you should be using your computer then they tell the AV companies to code it with this kind of logic:

if (weThinkItHurtsOurBottomLine == true)
return malware;
 
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