Browsing the Internet or running around among the shelves each of us is sensitive to special promotions. This also applies to the software. Here, however, an extremely attractive price offers should increase our vigilance.
Very often “bargain” deals you come across the popular auction sites or web pages. Tempted by “blockbuster promotion” proposed by the “super salesman” in many cases get software derived from an illegal source . The consequences turn out to be the deplorable. Paying for “promotional” software is not enough that transferred to the account of criminals, it ourselves we risk the potential loss of their own data, or an infection of equipment by malicious viruses.
Counterfeit software is increasingly being offered on online marketplaces on the website and in stores run by rogue traders . Overcome weakness to the overwhelming promotions and discounts, we can unwittingly fall prey to the practice of criminal and become a buyer of illegal software. Caution should keep regardless of the sales channel, but to the growing interest in online shopping, we should be especially careful, choosing deals on auction sites. According to Bartlomiej Witucki, the representative of the BSA The Software Alliance in Poland, very much on the online auction software Microsoft raises substantial doubts . Manufacturers against such dubious offers run checks. It turns out that almost 100 percent of such suspects auction turns out – after a more detailed check – illegal.
Beware of stolen keys
Software manufacturers increasingly addition to the classic “box” offer special keys, consisting of a row of numbers and the numbers that allows the activation of the program. At the indicated our e-mail inbox gets the link or said the key to the software through which we can activate it. However, if the funds obtained in this way illegal code, even one that has already been used repeatedly, it is – at best – the key may simply not work . Half of poverty if the link that we get, leading to the manufacturer. In real trouble begins when you click the link coming from an unknown source. In one scenario we can become part of a botnet, which is part of zhackowanej network spreading infringing content (eg. Materials of a pornographic or paedophilic) or used for other criminal activities .
Do not let them infect the pirate
According to the analyzes of BSA The Software Alliance, an organization that works for the promotion and enforcement of intellectual property rights, there is a high, positive correlation (r = 0.79) between the indicator and the number of unlicensed software infection. In the case of illegal software there are cases of installing malicious programs on your computer, for example. Spyware applications or stealing important data for us : from pictures, the card numbers and passwords to bank accounts. It also happens that with the illegal software, users unwittingly install viruses , worsening the functioning of the computer (felt is then clear dismissal of his work or frequent “suspension”). There is also the risk of blocking the application is installed on your computer and requesting payment of user ransom for his release (ie. Ransomware).
Bandits behind bars
Actions taken by the police more often show that for the illegal sale of unlicensed software are facing ordinary criminals. In April this year. The District Court in Slupsk Thomas Z. was sentenced to three years imprisonment for stealing and distributing computer software known auction site. The court did not apply the conditional suspension of sentence. In addition to the recognition guilty of theft software also he sentenced him for the dissemination of computer programs through the portal of the auction. In the course of the investigation that exposed the actions of Thomas Z. software manufacturers to the detriment of approx. PLN 350 thousand.
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What to look for? Here are some suggestions:
1. Do not be tempted abnormally low price of the software . These types of deals do not get a chance. Low price is a lure for users abandoned by unscrupulous dealers who acquired the software from illegal sources. Therefore, before you buy software – check the price of a legitimate seller. Software sold at auction, which grossly deviates price of software offered on the market, it should be your first indication that something may be amiss. Tempting price of software should light you in the head a red light.
2. On the pages of the software manufacturer Check the list of authorized resellers . Then you can be sure that the software is completely legal.
3. If you purchased a “box” software, make sure it is complete . Even if the box is wrapped in foil, it may turn out that you do not have a full set of software.
4. Be wary of websites offering software at very low prices . If the dealer who sold you the Product Key announces that software should download from a different party than the manufacturer, immediately notify law enforcement authorities and the manufacturer of the software.
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