Any recommendation on antivirus that isn't annoying and don't give false positive on cracks?

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You're not going to find an AV that doesn't flag modifications as virus/malware. That's kind of the definition of malicious behaviour by a program.

Hell, Windows itself will overwrite changes you make to certain exscutables/dll's, etc, with its own file protection system.

Test your cracks in a VM. Then use them as needed, or do the cracking in a VM.

How do you know they're false positives?

https://virustotal.com/

Most antivirus software is more sketchy than random cracks.

i don't think that's possible mate for 2 reasons :

• software companys pay antivirus software makers to flag and remove game cracks
• cracks use obfuscation and workaround techniques that are similar to whats used in viruses so most flag them as mallisious

So what you are saying you want a shitty AV that would not recognize a potentially malicious executable? Any normal AV should flag crack as a potential threat due to what it does.

Stick with Defender and whitelist executables you trust. This is computing 101.

If u are on Linux I recommend using firejail on the executable

malwarebytes will flag cracks like all the others but when I used to clean computers for a living, it rarely gave a false positive and found the most bullshit on Windows pcs. This was a few years back so I don't keep up with how it is these days.

ClamAV is an open source antivirus

https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav

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Use the megathread, it has lists of trusted providers (goat symbol).

Of course, that's not good enough, so my "antivirus" is to use an entirely separate device for gaming/piracy and a lower power device for production and work. If my gaming device gets compromised, the attacker will just know how many hours I spend in vampire survivors :)

I haven't used an Antivirus in years... That's one advantage of GNU OS's. I run cracks inside sandboxes which then run Wine and DXVK for compatibility.

You're not going to find an antivirus that isn't intrusive because that is their entire duty. However, Kaspersky has a very high malware detection rate compared to other AV solutions

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Think it's also important that it's not a resource hog. None are perfect but I recommend ESET.

I sometimes think about disabling defender I think theres a site that can do it. Downside is it'll probably break windows but yeah it annoys me it's always wasting my battery plus yeah it throws fits over things like cracks

Last time I was mad enough to think about this it wasn't even a crack it was Autohotkey it didn't like.

probably I will be punished for this comment but: Kaspersky
second best AV is Malwarebytes,
there is a subreddit for ranking them r/antivirus or something

I use ESET and rate of false positives is very low for me (as long as you disable detect "potentially unwanted applications", it asks during installation).

This is impossible, all antivirus will give false positive sometimes and they will be annoying since they need to be intrusive to "catch" some virus

Just don't use one. Just don't download anything dodgy and you're golden.