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Cracked software cannot be updated. This means you miss out on critical security updates, making your computer vulnerable to new exploits, notes a 2024 Reddit thread on software risks.
He found a professional-looking site with glowing (and fake) comments. He clicked the download button, ignored his antivirus's frantic warnings—assuming they were just "false positives"—and ran the Setup.exe .