I was going to buy a couple more licenses to give to my daughters for this nice little utility I have used a while to store personal data in because it has password protection, etc. I decided to check out if there was any word on how crackable the program is (azzcardfile is its name). So I made the fatal mistake of visiting two sites that commented on cracks for this program. One quick look at the website's home page, and a truly ruthless malware entered and ruined my XP system drive. Cannot run antivirus (says its .exe is infected), can't even open task manager to terminate anything. As a last ditch, I booted to Vista 64 and ran malwarebyte as well as AVG on the XP drive (now non-system) and to no avail. This drive now must be reformatted as there appears to be no resolution. I had heard of this before, but never experienced it. Total hose job! What's really sad is, I had a new SATA II drive that I cloned my XP install on, and it booted fine, then proceeded to die within a few hours! Bad luck this week!The site, I think, was keygens.******nl/crack/97774/ My asterisks inserted . . .Ouch!Noel

Not so fast, there might still be hope.http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12Try that, it's a linux rescue disc. It should be able to help get rid of that sucka.*edited to get rid of stupidity and confusion

The way I understood the OP is that he wasn't looking for license cracks for the program itself but how vulnerable the program is to being compromised.He said he wanted to "Buy" additional licenses.

*edited due to stupidity on my part

That right there made it look to me like he was looking for warez.

Peter,What he said was that he was storing his credit card info, UID's and PW, etc. in this program, like you can do with Norton's Identity Safe. He wanted to know how vulnerable his program was. I did not interpret that as a desire to find a crack, especially since he stated that he wanted to buy more licenses IF it was safe.

Peter,What he said was that he was storing his credit card info, UID's and PW, etc. in this program, like you can do with Norton's Identity Safe. He wanted to know how vulnerable his program was. I did not interpret that as a desire to find a crack, especially since he stated that he wanted to buy more licenses IF it was safe.

Good point, I guess I misinterpreted that, usually when I see someone mention a crack and software it usually means they want to break the DRM. I guess that put me on the alert, sorry about the confusion. Now this whole incident is now failblog worthy.Also, I've edited my posts on the grounds that i'm retracting that statement due to stupidity on my part.

Good point, I guess I misinterpreted that, usually when I see someone mention a crack and software it usually means they want to break the DRM. I guess that put me on the alert, sorry about the confusion. Now this whole incident is now failblog worthy.Also, I've edited my posts on the grounds that i'm retracting that statement due to stupidity on my part.

My opinion is that any search using the word "crack", however innocent is dangerous,i.e. the VULTURES gather round.Ron

NO credit card, banking nor personal information should be on a computer that is connected to the Internet. Nothing is truly secure and everything is crackable!These types of crimes need to be delt with more harshly ... send the hackers to prison for a while.

NO credit card, banking nor personal information should be on a computer that is connected to the Internet. Nothing is truly secure and everything is crackable!These types of crimes need to be delt with more harshly ... send the hackers to prison for a while.

Agreed, the fact is that there are tools that can get a hold of these supposed secure passwords and numbers. There's actually a lot more dangerous stuff out there than most people realize, and cybersecurity is something you shouldn't fool with. The fact is that if you want to be careful, you can't store these anywhere.

Just a quick note that in talking about utilities to protect items, this is a nice free open source one...http://www.keepass.info/

The moral in this story is to never ever store your banking details on your computer. I never even give them over the phone!!!!Vololiberista

I was going to buy a couple more licenses to give to my daughters for this nice little utility I have used a while to store personal data in because it has password protection, etc. I decided to check out if there was any word on how crackable the program is (azzcardfile is its name). So I made the fatal mistake of visiting two sites that commented on cracks for this program. One quick look at the website's home page, and a truly ruthless malware entered and ruined my XP system drive. Cannot run antivirus (says its .exe is infected), can't even open task manager to terminate anything. As a last ditch, I booted to Vista 64 and ran malwarebyte as well as AVG on the XP drive (now non-system) and to no avail. This drive now must be reformatted as there appears to be no resolution. I had heard of this before, but never experienced it. Total hose job! What's really sad is, I had a new SATA II drive that I cloned my XP install on, and it booted fine, then proceeded to die within a few hours! Bad luck this week!The site, I think, was keygens.******nl/crack/97774/ My asterisks inserted . . .Ouch!Noel

Possibly some more bad news for you unfortunately. If you have access to your Vista drive from your XP installation and vice-versa (Which obviously you do since you stated you accessed that drive) You may have also compromised your Vista disk. Viruses can pass between disks if connected. It may not necessarily show the same symptoms that your XP drive showed right away. Have you tried virus scan on your Vista disk?

May I ask what antivirus program was on your computer when it became compromised?

He mentions AVG. Registered version?Would never rely on free-ware AV. Using G-Data, even though it

The thing is, these days it doesn't even matter what AV you have. There are plenty of viruses out there that can bypass the best programs and simply impossible to get rid of unless you format.