A Warning about AVG products on TPB.

[MrPissed]

I can't see anywhere else to put this, and being that it's a warning for everyone about a particular application, I thought I would post it here.

This is a warning to everyone that tries to use any AVG hacked product downloaded using a torrent from TPB, NONE of the AVG applications work in windows 7 x64 either 64 bit (x64) or 32 bit (x86), MS has got wise with increasing security for untrusted sites, and have added TPB to the list so now when an application that was recently (that's before any recent updates) downloaded, they work fine, but after the windows updates, TPB is now part of the untrusted sites that's hard wired in internet options, I tested this by recently trying to download AVG PcTuneup (by several uploaders) and tried to install them, one at a time using Revo Uninstaller Pro, (obtained on TPB), each and every one of them shows the internet options security warning, this is NOT a bug, because I downloaded a completely different application (not AVG), using the TPB proxy site, and it installed perfectly.

This windows 7 internet options security warning only affects attempts at installing *ANY* AVG product downloaded via TPB.

[Sid]

Why is Microsoft protecting AVG, which is a competitor?

How does Microsoft know that the product was downloaded from TPB?

The .torrent file is created BEFORE the product has been uploaded to TPB, and that torrent file guarantees a downloader ends up with an exact copy of those files as they existed before the .torrent was uploaded.

Not to mention that no AVG products (or anything else) IS EVER UPLOADED to TPB. The only thing uploaded to TPB is a .torrent file with meta-data describing a set of files.

I don't think you're deliberately attempting to spread fear/uncertainty/doubt.

But you are talking complete and utter bollocks.

[lidlnelly]

There's a HASH (MD-5 Etc) associated with every original piece of software. This is not new news. M$ flags the activation method not the application itself (Good torrenters use original material). You can bypass this dip in function by making exceptions within M$.
I think you may be on the right track but using wrong methods. Virtualize your installs on a clean VM and watch your port traffic.

As SID has said. TPB offers .torrents, not harbored content.

ALL non-open source providers collude (As do some open-source providers ). That's just how shit works.

In short, your allowing the softwares you've mentioned to communicate openly.

Monitor their install via VM's. Allow their connections within the VM's. Then start reversing shit

Please note this is a very simplified post on a very complex process. You won't learn how to approach something like this unless you've got coding skills, patience and time.

[MrPissed]

If y'all look closely at by OP, I never mentioned in any case that TPB is a centralized server that's literally hosting the software, I used the word 'via' meaning TPB as a middle-man.

I used to "crack' software many years a go, when it was a simple as boiling water, but not anymore, and I've noticed these 'so-called' crackers that upload torrent files are either using Linux as the underlying os, and using VM for windows software, or just using windows itself, either way, they don't seem to have an idea on how to 'crack' software properly, that's why there's so many people commenting on those uploaders with comments like "Useless, it doesn't even install", or "How am I supposed to use the keys when they don't work?", they forget, these software developers keep an eye on TPB, especially looking for their software that has txt file with keys or keygens, and they download these and within a week or 2, they block those keys from ever working,,, which is why 'if' someone is to crack something like that, then at least give a warning that the software may not work in a week or so.

Oh, and *NO* I'm not talking absolute "bollocks" (as suggested by Sid)

[Sid]

You are still missing the points.

It is a) impossible for MS to know whether software has been obtained "via" TPB or not and b) of no interest to MS whether it's competitors products are being pirated or not

It is also obvious that no software, pirated or not, is ever guaranteed to work in perpetuity on every single computer in the entire world.

I'm going to bow out of this thread here because you are not talking sense, or listening to it, and because I've no doubt that anyone who reads this thread will be able to see that for themselves (unless they are as dense as you are in which case they're beyond help).

[RobertX]

Impossible or not, I am glad that AVG can protect your computer for free.

That's all I care about at the moment.

My two Canadian dollars.

[pizza hut]

I can't see anywhere else to put this, and being that it's a warning for everyone about a particular application, I thought I would post it here.

This is a warning to everyone that tries to use any AVG hacked product downloaded using a torrent from TPB, NONE of the AVG applications work in windows 7 x64 either 64 bit (x64) or 32 bit (x86), MS has got wise with increasing security for untrusted sites, and have added TPB to the list so now when an application that was recently (that's before any recent updates) downloaded, they work fine, but after the windows updates, TPB is now part of the untrusted sites that's hard wired in internet options, I tested this by recently trying to download AVG PcTuneup (by several uploaders) and tried to install them, one at a time using Revo Uninstaller Pro, (obtained on TPB), each and every one of them shows the internet options security warning, this is NOT a bug, because I downloaded a completely different application (not AVG), using the TPB proxy site, and it installed perfectly.

This windows 7 internet options security warning only affects attempts at installing *ANY* AVG product downloaded via TPB.

AVG PcTuneup is malware bogs ya system down