Website Hosting Pirated eBooks Share of book piracy rapidshare.com 35.6% 4shared.com 32.

7%
esnips.com 7.4% uploading.com 3.7% mediafire.com 2.4% hotfile.com 2.1% megaupload.com 2.1%
scribd.com 2.0% depositfiles.com 1.5% filefactory.com 1.2% ifile.it 1.1% wattpad.com 1.1% easy-
share.com 1.0% ziddu.com 0.8% ioffer.com 0.6% sharingmatrix.com 0.6% letitbit.net 0.6% docstoc.com
0.6% kewlshare.com 0.5% badongo.com 0.4% midupload.com 0.4% truly-free.org 0.4% bitroad.net 0.4%
rapidshare.de 0.4% box.net 0.4%

Malware / Spyware ? NO || Popup Advertising ? NO

www.smartserials.com

www.keygenguru.com — Popular site with hundreds of thousands of results.

www.serialkey.net

www.zcrack.com

www.subserials.net

www.serialportal.com

supercracks.net

www.serialcrackz.com

www.serials.be

www.cracktop.com

www.cracksfm.com

www.cracklib.net

www.crackdb.org — The site itself is safe, however; many affiliate links are on the ‘do-not-visit’
list. When searching, skip past the first results (with the prices).

Crack Sites with Advertising/Popups

These lower-risk sites won’t attempt to infect your computer with (too much) malicious
code; however’ you’ll pay the price with unavoidable full-page ad popups and advertising
tracker cookies. Use at your own discretion.

Malware / Spyware ? NO || Popup Advertising ? YES - sometimes excessively.

www.greatcracks.com — If you can handle excessive full-page ad popups, then give ‘em a whirl.
Otherwise, stick to a more reputable site. Uses the “clicksor” ad network, which includes ad
browser ‘cookies’.

serials.ws — You’ll find a great selection of serials, although you’ll be faced with in-browser
popups and the “clicksor” cookie – however, Firefox will block the popups. Avoid any and all
‘affiliate links’ contained within, and avoid clicking on the advertisements.

keygen.ws — Full-page ‘clicksor’ popup ads welcome you at every turn.

www.easycracks.net — You’ll have to sell your soul for every ‘crack’ you get with a full-page
popup ad for each. Avoid if possible.

cracksearch.ws — Same as above. Watch out for bad affiliates in the search results, although
some are OK.

cracks.vg — You’ll suffer through a minimum of 2 different full-page popups (not including the
ones that were blocked by Firefox) to get to each crack.

download-crack-serial.com — While both AVG and McAfee don’t recommend this site, we
found no visible threats. Cracks were easy to download, with no popup ads or adware loaders
(and none blocked in Firefox, either).

Malicious Crack Sites To Avoid

Avoid these websites at all costs – many contain some form of unwanted drive-by
download. Some are classified as ‘database websites’ (i.e. aggregators) that link the cracks
(sometimes through site searching) to more menacing sites.

Malware / Spyware ? YES || Popup Advertising ? YES

newcracks.net — Newcracks offers a variety of annoyances such as third-party cookies,

adware/spyware, browser exploits – not to mention a plethora of trojans in the downloads.

cracklooker.com — Cracklooker in itself isn’t a direct threat; however, they don’t host any
cracks themselves, and search queries will direct users to sites that should be avoided.

astalavista.ms (or any ‘astalavista’ domain or variant thereof) — Same as above. Searching on
Astalavista will display results from sites that should not be visited. Best to avoid. Other
Astalavista domains are even more dangerous.

crack.ms — Browser exploits and hijacks, popups, trojans, backdoors – you name it, it’s here.

thebugs.ws — Contains some very harmful affiliate links.

needcrack.us — McAfee says, “When we browsed this site, we found direct links to an address
that made unauthorized changes to our test PC.” Marvelous.

cracksearchengine.net — Not a direct threat (it’s a crack meta-search site) that aggregates search
queries from less reputable sites. Clicking on search results can be harmful.

anycracks.com — Makes unauthorized changes to the PC. Marked as an ‘exploit server’.

mscracks.com — The works! Ad popups, browser hijacking, trojans in the files and bad affiliate
links.

keygen.in — Same as above.

Dailykeys.com — Bad affiliate links and files are purposely infected with trojans/virus.

bestserials.com — Even Google confirms that “this site may harm your computer”.

crackfound.com — Ad popups and bad external links.

cracks4u.com — Affiliate links are on the bad list. Trojans and other malware are purposely
added to the crack files. Avoid!

getcracks.com — Same as above.

keygen.ms — This site itself is harmless (aside from some popups); however, the actual crack
files are linked on unscrupulous sites whereby an entire gamut of problems can arise.

crackhell.com — Their in-site search links to warezdownloads.com (not a good sign), and most
of the affiliate links (which take up the better part of the homepage) should be avoided.

crackspider.net — Does not host any files – search results include those “Oem software” scams,
or crack download links to abominable sites such as mscracks.com. Avoid.

crackzplanet (net/com) — Malicious executables are commonplace among the available cracks.

andr.net — Browser homepage hijacking and adware/popups.

asta-killer.com — Categorized as an ‘exploit server’ with active threats.

http://shadygrounds.com/blog/where-to-find-pirated-software-in-china-a-few-sites/

Mininova – This is also a very well known Torrent search engine. According to their site, Mininova “…is the
largest torrent search engine and directory on the net. Visitors of Mininova can anonymously upload torrents to this
website, tracked by any BitTorrent tracker.
isoHunt – According to Wikipedia, isoHunt “…is a BitTorrent index with over 1.7 million torrents in its database and
20 million peers from indexed torrents. With 7.4 million unique visitors as of May 2006, isoHunt is one of the most
popular BitTorrent search engines. IsoHunt users perform over 40 million unique searches per month. Isohunt is the
3rd most popular bittorrent site as of 2008.
btjunkie – These guys have 5 key elements that make them awesome. They index both private and public trackers,
they have a completely automated crawler that scours the Internet, free public torrentsubmission, They
have torrent Mail, for immediate notification of new torrent additions and finallytorrent reporting and comments.
Torrent Reactor – Torrent Reactor is the oldest and most reliable resource for torrents. Find and download
everything you need in 5 minutes.
VerTor – This site checks every torrent listed on their site for quality so you don’t have to. All of their Torrents are top
notch!
Torrent Hound – Torrent Hound “…crawls the web using a custom filter to find new torrent files as soon as they are
made available. (or accepts them from users who upload their torrents directly). Next it subjects them to a few
algorithm-based tests to ensure that they are healthy and that if they contain adult content they are flagged
appropriately.
Fulldls – Yet another Torrent search site. This one has many popular titles, and good quality Torrents.
Torrent Matrix – These guys claim to have the Latest bittorrent files, free downloads for PC Games, Movies, PS2,
Xbox.
Bushtorrent – Not sure what they were thinking here putting one of the most hated presidents of all time right on
their front page.
Torrent Monkeys – Seriously, who doesn’t like monkeys? Especially monkeys that bring you piping hot Bit torrents?
 BTJunkie - Editors Choice
 BitTorrent.com
 Bushtorrent & Torrentreactor (Mirror Indexes)
 isoHunt
 Meganova
 Mininova
 The Pirate Bay
 Torrent Portal
 TorrentSpy
 Torrentz