In addition to all that, the computer will wear out much faster in the same way a car would if driven at 100 miles an hour all the time. Many people only realise something is wrong when they receive the electricity bill. An infected computer uses around 5 times as much power as a normal one. The most expensive consequence is your CPU is running at near maximum while the computer is on, draining the battery on a laptop or using vast amounts of mains electricity. Of course, the crack is using your internet connection heavily and if you don't have unlimited broadband this will work out expensive. I'm told that some hackers make $80,000 a year doing this with as few as 20 bots in operation.

This is why the most ubiquitous of the cracks passes your AV. Because nothing is being stolen or changed anti-virus software does not flag these cracks as dangerous. With Adobe cracks the most popular past time is cryptocurrency mining, which although harmless as it doesn't steal data, redirects the resources of the computer to increase the size of the hackers bitcoin wallet. The trouble is the crack will be doing something behind the scenes. Today cracks ,hacks and keygens are produced to make money and the creators rely on that human weakness 'Greed'- wanting something for nothing. The days of some enthusiastic hacker breaking into software just to prove it can be done are well and truly over. In case you don't know virtually every known crack for Adobe software contains malware.

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