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Ail said:
ameratsu said:
Ail said:

I'm pretty sure that if you download software of a pirate torrent website you can't legally have much expectations of it being malware free...

 

Depends on the site/source. I don't do public torrents so I'm at minimal risk of getting malware. I doubt many people would risk their account on a private torrent site by uploading a bad copy.

 

I didn't say the risk was low or high.

All I said is that if you get malware from such a site you can't blame anyone but you...........

 

Again, if your company makes the software and it's proven that the malware in the pirated copy is from your respectable and serious company (and not put by a cracker or an outsider to your company), then it doesn't matter why you did it, you're in trouble...

Windows is a classic example, some pirated versions of Windows have malware, but the affected can't sue Microsoft because they don't have any proof that Microsoft put that code there, and if they did, and if there's not definitive evidence they'll never admit it...