There are few people in my circle who occasionally come to me for installing windows on their machine and I just download the OS from official site and then patch the windows activation into it. It works fine.
These days it isn't required to patch windows because windows identifies the activation key that comes along with the laptop automatically.
Besides that, there are activation keys which can be purchased for cheaper price online and will eliminate this risk of downloading pirated windows.
Topic: Pirated Windows builds with crypto stealer - page 2. (Read 272 times)
Anyone who uses pirated software should ask questions to themselves about what is the motive of the pirates. Noting how cryptocurrencies user became more diverse, it is necessary to take extra precautions about the operating system or device that anyone uses to manage their own cryptocurrency.
Also, Pirating software requires laborious work, time, and energy. Are we sure that they cracked the software specifically for ideological purposes, or for their own benefit just like in this kind of case? Seems it is unlikely if they are doing it freely and voluntarily.
Also, Pirating software requires laborious work, time, and energy. Are we sure that they cracked the software specifically for ideological purposes, or for their own benefit just like in this kind of case? Seems it is unlikely if they are doing it freely and voluntarily.
I literally had no problem back then when installing cracked Windows 10 if it means I wouldn't get those unnecessary activation notifications; what matters to me was the fact that I can play my games without any unnecessary annoyances. This is until I got into bitcoin/crypto — then I had to take security very seriously.
At the end of May 2023, a customer contacted Doctor Web with their suspicion that their Windows 10 computer was infected. The analysis our specialists carried out confirmed the presence of trojan applications in the system. These were Trojan.Clipper.231 stealer malware as well as the Trojan.MulDrop22.7578 dropper and Trojan.Inject4.57873 injector, which were used to launch the clipper. Doctor Web’s virus laboratory successfully localized all these threats and neutralized them."
https://news.drweb.com/show/?lng=en&i=14712
Back then I sometimes use these pirated builds of Windows 7 from the PirateBay since it was like the common OS used before even 10 and 8 arrived. Good thing I was not hodling any sorts of crypto during those days, as I did not really care on how malicious would using those builds be.https://news.drweb.com/show/?lng=en&i=14712
Now that Windows 10 is free to download officially from Microsoft assuming you don't really care that much in personalization stuffs. Otherwise I would just use Linux in that case already lol.
Reason why the software developers create free software for everyone is not all about the freedom of having free software applications but the exchange of this is having possible malicious malware injected in the downloading of software, it could possible that there's possible suspected viruses can be detected if you are using a legitimate security defender. In short free software, exchange for your data. The reason why secure your devices, if you have money to invest in crypto, invest too in security.
Usually I am fine already with Microsoft Security itself unless I really dig deep too much in the internet which I rarely do now these days. 
Reason why the software developers create free software for everyone is not all about the freedom of having free software applications but the exchange of this is having possible malicious malware injected in the downloading of software, it could possible that there's possible suspected viruses can be detected if you are using a legitimate security defender. In short free software, exchange for your data. The reason why secure your devices, if you have money to invest in crypto, invest too in security.
"Doctor Web identifies pirated Windows builds with crypto stealer that penetrates EFI partition
Doctor Web has discovered a malicious clipper program in a number of unofficial Windows 10 builds that cybercriminals have been distributing via a torrent tracker. Dubbed Trojan.Clipper.231, this trojan app substitutes crypto wallet addresses in the clipboard with addresses provided by attackers. As of this moment, malicious actors have managed to steal cryptocurrency in an amount equivalent to about $19,000 US.
At the end of May 2023, a customer contacted Doctor Web with their suspicion that their Windows 10 computer was infected. The analysis our specialists carried out confirmed the presence of trojan applications in the system. These were Trojan.Clipper.231 stealer malware as well as the Trojan.MulDrop22.7578 dropper and Trojan.Inject4.57873 injector, which were used to launch the clipper. Doctor Web’s virus laboratory successfully localized all these threats and neutralized them."
https://news.drweb.com/show/?lng=en&i=14712
Doctor Web has discovered a malicious clipper program in a number of unofficial Windows 10 builds that cybercriminals have been distributing via a torrent tracker. Dubbed Trojan.Clipper.231, this trojan app substitutes crypto wallet addresses in the clipboard with addresses provided by attackers. As of this moment, malicious actors have managed to steal cryptocurrency in an amount equivalent to about $19,000 US.
At the end of May 2023, a customer contacted Doctor Web with their suspicion that their Windows 10 computer was infected. The analysis our specialists carried out confirmed the presence of trojan applications in the system. These were Trojan.Clipper.231 stealer malware as well as the Trojan.MulDrop22.7578 dropper and Trojan.Inject4.57873 injector, which were used to launch the clipper. Doctor Web’s virus laboratory successfully localized all these threats and neutralized them."
https://news.drweb.com/show/?lng=en&i=14712
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