I’m looking for a clean version of Ableton Live (ideally 11, but anything older is fine too) for weeks now. But everything I download and send to VirusTotal.com is infected with all kinds of nasty malware.
Am I doing something wrong? Where does one get cracked audio software (for Windows) without malware?
The quick response is you can’t, you are running an executable someone else had to modify.
The long answer is trust, find a bigger warez group like fitgirl, codex etc. Though I am afraid not many of them focus on software other then games. If these groups malw’d their cracks it would destroy their reputation.
For searching, obviously older, dedicated private trackers are often better and in a way safer, though I don’t know any specific to programs, like Ableton or others.
Theres plenty groups of similar size and good rep in the audio scene too, r2r is the group thats supplying keygens and patches for newer ableton versions, thing is public trackers sometimes have modified version, once it leaves the scene who knows what gets bundled with it
Do R2R publish their file hashes somewhere?
No clue, but you only gotta run it once so if you’re concerned you could run it get the .auz and then go back to a previous restore point, could also throw it in virustotal and check the behavior tab to check that ur copy isn’t dropping weird files in places it shouldnt or anything like that before running on your system
Think most the time people replace the patch exe or the installer with malicious version since that’s low hanging fruit, wouldn’t be too worried over the keygen tbh