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A Keygen (product key generator) is a computer program that generates a product licensing key, serial number, or some other registration information necessary to activate for use a software application.

In most countries, the use of keygens to activate software without purchasing a license is fraudulent.

Why Keygens Are Detected To Be Malicious:

Keygen software distributions can be detected to be infected with malware by anti-virus programs such as AVG and McAfee.

Some keygens are indeed infected, but many are not. Yet, antivirus frequently report infections by "generic" virus for which there is no description. Other antivirus cearly label the "virus" with a Keygen prefix.

Antivirus vendors label cracks for their own software as "malware" and also many different cracks and keygens for different programs are labelled to be "malware". This is done to combat piracy so that when people download working keygens and cracks alot of the time they see it's detected to be a virus or trojan (when it's not) and will then remove it from their computer immediately, which will prevent their program from being pirated.

Conclusion:

To conclude, most keygens are false positives and will not harm your computer in any way at all.

Hope this helps all you guys in the future when downloading keygens/cracks.

Great Thread for the Newbs :p

Great info man.:y:

i see stuff all the time psn key gens is their a such thing?

I still would be careful as binders and crypters has become more advanced. Much easier to hide in keygens. I would at least run the keygen on another crappy computer if you have one and then type the key in a text file and save it to your program you downloaded. I have a old computer mainly setup for this sort of thing.

~good job bro

lol, i don't download them because a lot of the time they are virus'