It's 2023 and I am wondering the same. I'm going to upgrade my hard drive soon. After I finish scanning for malware. Did you have to deactivate?What about cloning a hard drive? Would I have to deactivate for that?
Forgive me, this is my first time having to worry about deativating
I'm worried not only because potential hard drive failure but also because my antivirus detected keygen trojans and started to act up, had to enter safe mode and scan it and some scans didn't pick it up. Currently having a bug with antivirus where they have duplicates of threats, I need to wait for that to clear up. I just don't want people to grab the activation codes while they are deactivated and me to lose more money.@ikaroll, @InstallGentoo
Honestly, deactivating and reactivating is far less scary than running out of activations, as long as you have your serial codes handy. (I'd recommend getting them all together in a text/spreadsheet document for easy reference.) At least in Vocaloid 4/5, and I'm pretty sure 3 also, the tool lets you deactivate all of your synths at once. To reactivate, you can also put all of your serial numbers back in at once--there's a big textbox into which you can paste all your serials, with each serial on its own line. You'll spend much more time/effort uninstalling/reinstalling than activating/deactivating.
No, but if I have malware they could grab that depending on exactly what type of malware I have.How do you mean, what if someone else activated the code the moment you deactivated? Are you in the habit of sharing your serial codes with people? They should be unique, so unless you've let someone borrow your copy of something, that shouldn't happen
Yes, if this doesn't work out (the deactivation-reactivation) I think I'll contact piapro about my problem.Most places these days make you get an account to purchase from them, so ostensibly you would still have all of the information needed to talk to customer service in your account.
Yes, in protection history I see Tiggre!plock atAre you worried that if your computer was hacked that someone would steal your activation codes?
[UTILITY] IllusionSorter v1.0/IllusionSorter 1.0.exe
, MALscript!MSR at Traveler Inn Tales v0.8c/js/plugins/VisuMZ_1_SaveCore.js
, and Sirefef!cfg at Anything-V3.0.ckpt->archive/data/846
, and a couple more less severe ones in a old windows 7 iso and static html page I saved years ago. I think I've removed them but they're duplicating in the protection history. If you look up the name for those malware they sound pretty dangerous and relates to taking passwords. I feel they were a bunch of false positives since they haven't showed up before and I had those files for so long. Yes, I'm checking periodically for my banking statements as well. The time stamps of some statements are off (example: the time I deposited money and purchased the Hard drive is flipped) but nothing out of the ordinary yet. My online account passwords I use I haven't noticed a change with them either.they do it to get sensible info (like your email account, phone details, bank account, etc..), they don't care for the other software
I did a sign for 14 day trial of Malwarebytes, I used tweaking.com as per recommendation from local tech support I met in person, I did a full scan with Malwarebytes and it turned up one heuristic unrelated to any of the previous scans found, was able to quarratine (it was from another game). Otherwise it showed up clean with Malwarebytes. I think you are right that many are false positives (maybe even all), it's very unnerving seeing 30-50 entries of the same thing on the default antivirus and not seeing any new ones. The windows 7 one I had from before I had the windows 10 pro license when I was much more poor than I am now, it probably was modified iso with keygen activator. Don't know why it never flagged it until now, it was 4-5 years ago. (I never activated windows 7, I was using arch and wanted to use Illusion games, so I downloaded those two on arch way back then, I think I ran a VM with windows 7 and found that method was untenable with my old hardware). For it to show up now on scans felt like it's out of left field.that old windows 7 iso is official from Microsoft or kind of modified? always download windows iso only from microsoft website, because any other websites can really put bad files inside it (or if it's a modified iso with a keygen activator, then that's it)
same thing for the games: a mod or a plugin for a game can be a false positive. for pirated/modified games, yes there can be malwares, but most of times is a false flag.
regarding the passwords, I recommend to use another pc and change your main passwords (email, bank account, paypal, etc..) and enable sms code or a strong login. for example, my bank requires secret password from a certified phone to do most of the things.
and for the antivirus, really you shouldn't trust windows defender. is better than any free antivirus, but is way under any paid ones, like i said Norton antivirus. you should install the 30days trial of Norton and do a full scan (can take hours, so I recommend to do it during the night). If Norton doesn't find anything, you're good, and if it finds something, it can fix.
I know it can be stressful, but see this as a good opportunity to organize better all your software licenses (print them on a paper, save them somewhere else) and install a fresh copy of windows and you'll have a better computer ^-^
Would using Norton Bootable Recovery Tool be similar? I am afraid whatever I download could be reconfigured to not detect the malware. I'm going to try and set the boot medium up on separate computer. This would do the same thing as the 30day trial norton right? I could try both to be safe, but I think the bootable medium is a better method on potentially compromised system such as this. I hope there isn't tomfoolery from something like Intel ME, if there is I'm not sure even this will help. If I do find Tiggre!plock and Sirefef!cfg and it says "partially removed" what do I do, the tool would do a full scan right?yes probably all or almost all of them are false positive, and for sure that windows 7 iso already activated with a keygen is not good hehe
malwarebytes is good for general malwares, but to be 100% safe, I recommend to install the 30days trial of Norton and do a full scan (not the quick scan, the full scan of everything). It is able to remove any kind of virus, malware and clean also the boot sector of the hard drive (because some viruses don't go away with a format)![]()