This gives users false ideas that their machine has issues that must be fixed. Notice the results show drivers as being “Extremely old.”
Here are results from two different machines.
Once the software was installed, it automatically launched, ran a scan, and displayed the results of the scan. I clicked on the link, which in turn opened the following site:Ĭlicking the “download now” button downloaded the file from the DriverFix site and delivered basic instructions on how to get the program to run.Īccording to the website, DriverFix is a Windows application that scans your machine to find outdated drivers, and allows users to update those drivers from within the application with one click. The advertisement is one of many adverts offered by ad rotators. While the “crack” was being downloaded, the download page redirected to a page advertising DriverFix. This “crack” did not run properly on my test machine, most likely because of sandbox sensitivity. The crack download itself was actually not a crack, but a file we detect as. In this case, I was looking for a crack for Windows 10 Pro, since it’s popular software. This is risky practice, though, because the user may end up downloading unwanted software that can do more harm than good. These sources are important to research because users often browse crack and keygen sites looking to find paid software for free. Many of these sites also host downloads for malware. Researchers like myself often browse crack and keygen sites because they are known to host many affiliate links to third-party applications, many of which include Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs), adware, or worse. In this post, I’ll describe what happened when I went crack hunting, and why it is often unsafe to carry out this activity. Other times, they’re not what they say they are. Sometimes, these programs do what they say on the tin. People sometimes ask us in the forums if a keygen or software crack is safe to use.
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