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Malwarebytes "AI detection" giving false positive from pirated software? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 10 hours ago by Sasori323@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Today I was trying to download Affinity Photo 2 from the websites listed on the megathread, as normally I do exactly that and everything goes just fine.

But when scanning the downloaded files. Windows Defender detected it as hacktool.win32.keygen and malwarebytes as Generic.Malware.AI.DDS.

In the case of Windows, I am guessing that it is not detecting a virus but the actual crack right? That's what that means as far as I'm aware. But what surprised me was malwarebytes, it has sometimes warned about cracks but it's not something it does often, and I don't recognize the detection code, but it seems to be using AI to detect malware now?

Is this something that is known to happen? Malwarebytes AI seems to be detecting cracks as malware... Or is this actually a virus?

I put it in quarantine just in case, but I am guessing this has to be false positives, as it happened with 2 different downloads from 2 different websites.

VirusTotal results also flagged it as "malware", but seems to be also detecting the crack. https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/127540f7b3558a94f6e8a4ce9c695231e8715e20a17da4584d5df99035a79d49/detection

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[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

On Windows: VirtualBox (free and easy to use, but still advanced/powerful) or HyperV (already included if you have Windows Pro).

On Linux: anything based on KVM, my personal favourite is virt-manager, but QEMU is also great.

I would stay away from VMware because the free version is quite limited, and the pro version is not free. The free alternatives are equally good or better, so no reason to use something paid imho.