Are Cracked Softwares Safe To Use

Cracked softwares are free and easy to download from the web with so many crackers seriously sitting for a long time in front of a computer just in order to crack a protected software. With so many students using laptops and computers, it is rather difficult for them to buy softwares that are costlier than their budget. There are a lot of freewares out there, but most of them are designed for Linux and the rest of them have limited functionality. When we literally want a software very badly we need to buy it and I have a very strong reason for supporting this claim.

If you are a businessman you can never afford to download a cracked software. Cracked softwares are softwares obtained by reversing the one written by the original developer. There are many things which run behind the scene when you are installing a cracked software.  If you have downloaded your software from a torrent site, be sure that your computer is under the risk of being attacked by a malicious program.

Cracked softwares can crash your system. Let me tell you a few things about crackers. Crackers are not hackers in the real sense of the word. A hacker needs to be a serious and well equipped software programmer who does programming on the go. A real hacker is very swift at his keyboard and programming skills and he never messes with existing software developed by others. Instead, he installs a software, sees the functions in it and builds his own software which will work much better than the existing one which he tried. Hackers never work for other organizations and are very costly to hire. Most importantly hackers never crack.

A cracker uses a set of programs and cracks a protected software and distributes it for free. This brings serious loss to the software developers and the software vendors. If all the softwares in this world were bought ones, the economy of some developing countries would improve far beyond the present scenario. Gaming companies suffer a lot when their games get cracked and are being distributed for free all over the internet.

Crackers use a set of softwares like debuggers, assemblers, dis-assemblers and dumping tools in order to crack an existing software. The concept is pretty simple: take a software which is passsword protected or which has time limitation or some other such flaw. Hackers then disassemble it just like a doctor dissects his patient. Then they find the flaw in the software and remove it. Reverse engineering is a different field: in it there are some serious people who reverse a software and tell the programmers about the flaw in their design. Cracking requires serious looking into the assembly code of a software, seeing the type of protection involved and breaking it. Later they patch the software with their exe files or provide the exe files in a separate folder which the user copies and pastes in the program folder and replaces the original file with the tampered one.

The problem with cracked softwares is that certain crackers are nasty people. It could be someone who is not being cared for in this world despite being pretty talented, or it could be someone who just for the sake of fun wants to trouble people. With lot of cracked programs in your computer one day you will see very discouraging effects in your computer. Some effects include: the CD drive opening automatically, the system getting restarted automatically and much much more. If you have business related valuable data in your system, the cracker can retrieve it if he is capable of introducing a program most often called as a worm into the cracked exe file. A safer way of using cracked programs is to go for programs that have keygens attached with them. These are safer programs and also easier and convenient to download. But, if you have the money, it is always better to go for a bought version of the software that you want to use. Else you will need to personally study and understand reversing softwares so that you can avoid malicious programs from reaching your computer.