{"id":149,"date":"2006-11-07T08:29:52","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T08:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/07\/not-a-crack\/"},"modified":"2006-11-07T08:29:52","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T08:29:52","slug":"not-a-crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/07\/not-a-crack\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a crack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone emailed me a link to a page on a crack site which purported to offer a crack for the Macro Scheduler 8.1 evaluation version.  So I fired up Windows 2000 in Virtual PC and downloaded the &#8220;crack&#8221;.  It contained two executable files.  I scanned them with AVG Antivirus.  One of the files contained a trojan.  Since I was running under a Virtual PC environment it was safe to try this &#8220;crack&#8221; out anyway (I can easily trash\/recreate the Virtual environment and the host PC is protected).   Well, as expected, all it did was make some changes to the system and install the trojan.  It didn&#8217;t do anything to Macro Scheduler.   Macro Scheduler wasn&#8217;t cracked at all, but the O\/S is now potentially compromised.  Proves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/31\/cracks\/\">my point<\/a> about how dangerous cracks can be.  More often than not they aren&#8217;t cracks at all.  Just trojan horses, keyloggers or viruses.  Do yourself a favour, don&#8217;t download software cracks!  Instead, if your issue is one of cost, email the developer and explain what you need the software for.  You never know, they might even offer you a discount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone emailed me a link to a page on a crack site which purported to offer a crack for the Macro Scheduler 8.1 evaluation version. So I fired up Windows 2000 in Virtual PC and downloaded the &#8220;crack&#8221;. It contained two executable files. I scanned them with AVG Antivirus. One of the files contained a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}