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6 days agoBy itself - no, why would it? Cracked software will cause virus thingy to pop off anyway though, so either be careful with sources, or don’t have anything important on pc.
Like shenanigans protection of something unknown is trying it in vm first🫠, so it’s kinda on trust side of equation more often (see comments, trusted releaser etc)
(you can of course do some checks of registry, recently installed programs/processes/autorun settings etc, but something like encryption locker worms will fuck up your pc in a minute)
i mean probably? but that some designer type shit (driver modifications/ram/bios or something) not that typical in civilized piracy circles, worst i got is some referal swaps/default sites in browsers 10 years ago