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Simple check of a suspicious file
A friend of mine send me a RAR archive containing an executable and a “crack’, telling me his antivirus gives him an alert when he tried to run the “crack”. He downloaded the file from a link posted on a blog, the file was hosted on a file sharing site and the question was if the antivirus alert is because of the name “crack” so if it’s a “false positive”. For who does not know, a “crack” is a small executable which is able to modify an applications executable to act like a registered (licensed) program and a “false positive” is a false virus alert of the antivirus. I’ve used …
