Sony Vegas Pro 17 crack Reddit

Well, buddy, if you're reading this, ya got me!

It took several years, but ya finally crept past my vigilance.

Congratulations, and fuck you.

Alright, on to the actual post.

How it happened:

I decided I wanted to upgrade from Vegas Pro 14, to Vegas Pro 17. And being the broke millinial that I am, I would have to forgo this months rent to buy the new thing.

So I stopped by my neighborhood TPB, and picked up a copy of Vegas Pro 17, complete with an activator.

All seems fine, the activator worked. I've made a few vids, and am LOVING the speed in which Vegas Pro 17 renders (GPU Rendering = 1000x faster, compared to CPU Rendering used in VP 14).

Eventually, I notice my porn folder on my 3TB drive is filled with .ADAME files. And my girl Asa Akira is on her knees, begging me to pay the ransom so I can see her again.

So I slap her booty, like a boss, and tell her to wait while I dig around in my system to find out what dafuq is going on.

After much research, re-formating, and trying to replicate the problem, here's what I found:

• The infection was caused by the Activator, which silently installs malware that downloads various things at random. Sometimes it's Worms, sometimes it's more Malware, sometimes it's a Trojan, sometimes it's just an annoying advertising bug that plays invisible video ads with the Redneck Advertising Guy who kills your brain cells with every syllable (runs alongside Anonymizer Gadget).

• Upon replicating the problem, I discovered that it was my bad luck that got me the ransomware. 9/10 times, it just worms.

• The virus installer doesn't kick in until you start a torrent client. Meaning that this is either a bait-and-switch tactic, or the installer itself uses the protocol.

About the Ransomware

• The files are encrypted in alphabetical order. Meaning that each file within a folder will be encrypted before moving on to the next folder. So if (Folder A > File A, File B, File C), then all will be encrypted before encrypting (Folder B > File A, File B, File C), and so on.

• Also, each present drive is encrypted simultaneously, in the order described above.To give you an idea: My 3TB holds my porn & my software installs, and my 8TB holds my backups & general media (videos, pictures, projects, and torrent seeds).On my 3TB, my porn folder (named "Downloads") was encrypted first, then the sequential files within folder "UE4", wherein it was stopped halfway.On my 8TB drive, which holds significantly larger files, only the files within folder A - B were encrypted. Thankfully, these were mostly Backups from an old installation that I'd conveniently forgot to delete.For the C drive, encryption started in the AppData/Local/Temp folder, which held the folder containing the Ransomware EXE file.

• The software used was Phobos Ransomware, or perhaps a variation. As of August 2019, there is no way to decrypt the encrypted files without the decryption key.

It's also worth noting that the activator worked, and that the bug isn't directly linked with the Vegas Pro 17 EXE file. Something I discovered after copying the installation folder to an external, and migrating it to a freshly re-formatted Win7 installation.

That said, the EXE does continue to linger in the background after exiting VP 17, which suggests that while it isn't the cause directly, it may be working alongside the virus installation app that was installed by the Activator.

Thankfully, nothing of value was lost. Of course, that was only by a streak of luck, as I was able to catch it in time.

If you were hit by this, I'm sorry. The best I can tell you is to hold on to the encrypted files until the necessary decryption software is created, format your C drive, and perform a fresh installation of Windows.

On a positive note, I lost 10lbs since Saturday with this new diet I'm doing :)

I am not worried about the first stage of the crack but the second, When I look in installed programs it has normal vegas pro but then one titled "Sony veagas pro build 17 patch 421" and has the icon of the crack. Is this normal with a sony vegas crack?

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yeah It should be normal, those are usually how crack files look

level 1

Yeah, you can upload the crack and check it at virustotal.com. BEWARE that exe files from random sources of the net are not something you're suposed to TRUST lol

level 1

Sony hasn't made Vegas since about v13 or 14. If the download & crack has Sony Vegas and its v17, run away.

If its Magix Vegas, it might be ok.

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It states "Sony Vegas Pro Build" Is this not safe? What should I do? I got it from 1337x