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title: Our stance on Download Pirate
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description: Download Pirate
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date: 2024-02-18
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<Post authors="['nbats']"></Post>
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For those of you who don't know, the VFX site Download Pirate was removed by r/Piracy and placed in their unsafe list
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following this [thread](https://redd.it/1aswsl7). According to the post, OP downloaded Adobe Acrobat and got a pretty
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nasty trojan.
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To test this, we downloaded it and [checked the checksum](https://ibb.co/rGHXT0w) of every file compared to
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m0nkrus, and they match exactly. It is hard to say what happened to OP, but it seems pretty likely that they got the
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trojan from something other than Download Pirate.
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If someone has a VirusTotal scan, or some sort of proof Download Pirate is malicious,
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please [let us know](https://redd.it/1atkloc).
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***
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**update** - Here is a setup scan thanks to u/LichessLuvr which seems to be
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clean: [Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2023 v23.8.20421 x64](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/04889538532f10f910029a5ef65068aed713019fb50462546e82ee8ced81350b)
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***
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**update 2** - We just scanned all the [patched files,](https://ibb.co/VxBwzN3) and they came back clean too, so this
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is unlikely to have malware unless its hidden really well within the ISO. OP either got malware from an ad on the file
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host or already had the trojan before installing Acrobat.
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We're still open to new evidence if someone comes forward with it, but for now we can't find any reason to think they're
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malicious, so we're going to keep them in FMHY. The version OP downloaded is v23.8.20421 from 1cloudfile if someone wants
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to check it themselves.
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