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+title: Our stance on Download Pirate
+description: Download Pirate
+date: 2024-02-18
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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 following this
+[thread](https://redd.it/1aswsl7). According to the post, OP downloaded Adobe
+Acrobat and got a pretty nasty trojan.
+
+To test this we downloaded it and [checked the checksum](https://ibb.co/rGHXT0w)
+of each of the files compared to m0nkrus, and they match exactly. Its hard to
+say what happened to OP, but it seems pretty likely that they got the trojan
+from something other than Download Pirate.
+
+If someone has a virustotal scan, or some sort of proof Download Pirate is
+malicious please [let us know](https://redd.it/1atkloc).
+
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+
+**update** - Here's a setup scan thanks to /u/LichessLuvr which seems to be
+clean:
+[Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2023 v23.8.20421 x64](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/04889538532f10f910029a5ef65068aed713019fb50462546e82ee8ced81350b)
+
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+
+**update 2** - We just scanned all of the
+[patched files](https://ibb.co/VxBwzN3) and they came back clean too, so this is
+unlikely to have malware unless its hidden really well within the ISO. OP either
+got malware from an ad on the file host or already had the trojan before
+installing Acrobat.
+
+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 malicious so we're going to keep them
+in FMHY. The version OP downloaded is v23.8.20421 from 1cloudfile if someone
+wants to check it themselves.