If you find torrenting and running a VM too technical, I’m sorry to say you’re better off not trying to identify and remove any malicious code.

Don’t put yourself down and waste your money, you can get over the learning curve for this, it’s not that steep.

To elaborate, as the previous reply stated, running the cracked programs inside a virtual machine allows you to isolate an environment specifically for this usage. Configured properly (another reply went into more detail here), even if the cracked software has something malicious, it can’t harm you. So you can safely ignore wether there’s a virus or not.

Umm, no, they don’t. The PRC is about as far from communism as the US.

Run it inside a VM? If you’re suspicious or just worried, this would resolve most if not all of possible worries you may have.

Way to throw that big dick energy on OP’s face…

That’s true and I agree in both experience and principle. Them brutalist buildings do be ugly tho…

The fork button exists for a reason…

How do you go about finding and joining such a venture