You can download many programs on the Internet, both paid and free. If the user does not want to pay for the program, then he can use keygens, the use of which is always fraught with risk.
Paid will become free
Keygen (keygen) is a special type of illegal software that generates keys to various paid programs, with which they become free. As you can see from the functionality of keygens, their use is illegal, so they must be used at your own peril and risk.
Keygens are easy to use, plus they don't take up much space. To use any of them, just start it and click the "Generate" or "Generate" button. The resulting code must be copied and pasted when registering the program.
Risks when using keygens
As a rule, keygens are distributed free of charge, along with the software for which they are intended. They are written using algorithms that are similar to those used to create viruses and Trojans. For this reason, many of them are identified as malicious by antivirus software. This is often true.
The use of keygens, most often, is a criminal offense due to copyright infringement when using paid software. The developers of paid programs themselves understand that anyone will try to use the fruits of their labors for free. Therefore, they deliberately fight this with the help of complex algorithms for generating license keys, creating databases of legal and illegal users, interacting with antivirus software developers, and much more.
However, Russia from year to year takes the first place in the use of unlicensed software. This is due to the fact that the cost of many of them is considerable. Added to this is the unworked enforcement of copyright infringers when using licensed products. Most often, keygens are issued for such popular paid programs as office suites from Microsoft, operating systems of the Windows family, text recognition programs (for example, Abbyy's FineReader) and graphic editors (Adobe Photoshop).
Licensed keygens
Some software developers (most often antiviruses) create keygens for their products themselves. Most often they are disposable, and complex algorithms for generating codes are embedded inside them, so it will be extremely difficult for hackers to work with them. The life of "black programmers" is also made more difficult by the fact that developers try to change algorithms as often as possible, for each version of the same program it has its own.