Hello everybody and welcome back to another video now in today's video
We're going to be taking a look at Windows 8 green edition
once again, and the reason we're gonna be taking a look at it is we're gonna be seeing if there are any
Viruses or any spyware any malware that is in this operating system as well
A lot of you guys on my original Windows 8 Green video Wanted to see me do this. now,
I did this previously with both windows xp gold and Windows 7 and gold but as I said
I got a few comments on that Windows 8 green video. Let's go ahead and bring that's over here
So you guys can see I had these two people right here and there may have been even more people as well
But I found these two comments here and they were saying basically hey
You should see if there is any malware in this OS and that's exactly what we're gonna be doing today
We're gonna be seeing once and for all if there is any malware any spyware any sort of malicious software
But before we go any further, I do want to just highly emphasize that I do not recommend
*even if there is no malware in this*
I Still would not recommend using this as your main computer operating system. I would not use this as my main OS now before that
I even run any virus scans
inside of
Windows 8 green edition, I went ahead and scanned the ISO image file. That's what you actually install
Windows 8 Green Edition from with all three of my antivirus programs that I have on my computer. That's Avast Antivirus,
malwarebytes anti-malware, and a program called
Superantispyware (wow that's a long name), which is an anti spyware program. I ran it with those three programs
They all came back with no issues found. It said there was no malware found in the ISO file
So that is a good sign to begin with but that could still mean that there is malicious software
Inside of the OS once you actually go through the installation process
so what I've gone ahead and done is
I have downloaded all three of those same programs avast Free Antivirus,
malwarebytes anti-malware, and
Superantispyware. all these programs are free. However, they do have paid options available to you
So let's go ahead and just go ahead and run a scan with all these three programs
Now before that I even did any of the scans with all these three programs
malwarebytes as soon as it finishes installing popped up with a
quarantine message saying that it had found some malicious software and
What it found was a HackTool.IdleKMS in the C:\Windows folder
It's this SECOH-QAD.exe
so it found this and automatically put it into the quarantine which
means that none of the other antivirus programs are going to be able to see this and
what this is when I went ahead and looked it up online is
A generic term that that malwarebytes uses to identify
Any programs that enable the illegal use of microsoft products like Windows and Office.
so here's another reason why you probably shouldn't use this on your main computer is that
This is a illegal copy of Windows. This does contain pirated software
The Windows version is not genuine. It has been cracked with this tool
And the reason that it's a that it quarantines this as it says right here
It says HackTool.AutoKMS is sometimes backdoored and can often be found on sites of a shady nature
So just to be safe, even though that this you know, this might not be backdoor
You know this specific program that they have here, but just to be safe malwarebytes automatically finds and it quarantines that for you. So
Definitely have to give props to malwarebytes for finding and picking up on it without me even doing a full scan
so what I basically did is I ran a full system scan on all three of these different programs and
The first results here from Avast came back with no issues found. They have not found any issues whatsoever
with you know any sort of viruses or
Potentially unwanted programs malware anything of that nature.
Avast was not able to find anything so
And that was again a full system scan. So next up we have the results from malwarebytes anti-malware
And you can see that not only did malwarebytes find that that Windows crack that it automatically
Quarantined for us it also found
Three more different threats. So we're gonna go ahead and take a look at what these are. So the first one is a potentially unwanted
modification that is located in the Windows Registry
Next up we have something that it classified as a malware. It's RiskWare Agent.P2P
And we also have another risk that identifies a malware. That is a a riskWareAuto.KMS
Which sounds very similar to what it found before but it might have found it in a different location
So these are where they are actually located in. So the first one is inside of a registry key
Located in microsoft windows currentversion policies associations. We also have the RiskWareAgent.P2P,
it was located in C:\Windows\Temp\Crack
which I assume is where the people that made this OS stored all of like the crack files and
Then we have a riskwareAuto.kms, that actually was found on the DVD
So that is in D:\SOURCES\OEM and setup script. So this is mm. I believe this is one of those scripts
That it runs when it finishes the installation and when it like automatically installs all that software. That's probably what this is
So taking a look at the first risk that is found on the malwarebytes website here
This is a the PUM optional low risk file types. And it says that it is a
Again, like a generic malwarebytes term for a potentially unwanted modification which could mean that it is it isn't necessarily
Classic and classifying it as a full risk
it's just saying that this is potentially something you wouldn't want on your computer and
I actually viewed or went into the Windows registry and found the the key here that it is saying
Is a potentially unwanted modification and it is this low risk file types here and inside of it
Basically, this has a ton of different
File extensions so that is that one right there
Then we also have the go ahead and expand this here the risk where Auto kms
Which is basically the same exact thing that malwarebytes automatically quarantined for us in the system
but this it actually found on the CD and then we also have
RiskWareAgent.P2P
Which is again a Malwarebytes generic term for risk where that does not fit into one of these specialized detection categories
so it basically you know quarantine is this because some risk where tools can be
obtained by sites of a shady nature
So it automatically found that and it's going to automatically quarantine all these for us
so we're gonna go ahead and just automatically have Malwarebytes quarantine all of these for us and
There we go. So it's going to ask us to restore the computer to complete the removal process
We'll go ahead and do that for us. All right, and the last but not least. We are going to take a look at what
Superantispyware was able to find for us
So it is detected sixty-two threats and twenty file items down here
And we're gonna go ahead and I click on continue here and all of these are Adware.Tracking Cookies
Which is something that SuperAntiSpyware
Usually finds on every scan that you run
Because there's just so many of these that are installed by certain websites on your computer
So it found all of these for us
but I'm actually very surprised with Avast as it had the
Opportunity to find those three threats that are now in the malwarebytes quarantine, but it just didn't pick up on those
So I'm gonna go ahead and remove these these 62 tracking cookies right here
it's a very simple removal process as you can see and
Look at them malwarebytes came up with another HackTool.IdleKMS in the same exact
Program that it found before or at least I think that's the same program
So it's automatically moved to that into the quarantine now, so it looks like there
Yeah, that's the same exact program
So it might have just picked up on it again, but that's definitely very interesting again
this kind of brings me to the point of should you use this as your me as your main operating system or
An operating system that you keep personal documents on
Probably not that like I said at the beginning I would not use this on my main computer
I wouldn't recommend that you use it either but now we know for sure that there is
some malicious software that is installed in this that I don't believe was maliciously put
specifically put in here by the authors themselves
Although it definitely could have been but these are just side effects of the software that they used to you know
Illegally crack the Windows installation and have all of these, you know
Automated scripts that run after
The installation so but yeah, that is gonna basically wrap it up for this this look at viruses in Windows 8 Green Edition
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