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Malwarebytes "AI detection" giving false positive from pirated software? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 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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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

GIMP can be good, but it's work-flow is almost entirely different, so it's a learning curve. It doesn't help that it looks more like Photoshop these days, so people can think it has similar workflow and then quickly be flummoxed as to how to do something that was simple in Photoshop.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Hmmh. I mean for me it's kind of the other way round. I've started with GIMP because it was free. Never saw any reason to buy Adobe software (or others) and then also invest the time to learn how to use it. I roughly know where to find things in GIMP and don't know any other workflow. But I don't do much photo editing, so I wouldn't really know. And even as an amateur the nagivation in GIMP often feels cumbersome, and sometimes you fail to grasp how you're supposed to do something. I always hoped we'd invent another big photo editing suite as Free Software. Or GIMP would do a complete overhaul. But it is how it is. I mean I don't really care. But just because I don't need a lot of photo editing in my life 😉 It's likely an entirely different story for a lot of other people, and I can relate to that.