What is IDM (Internet Download Manager)?
Internet Download Manager short for IDM is a download manager that downloads your desired files in a fast time. This program is owned by American company Tonec, Inc. which is based in New York City. This software is written in C/C++. It is available for all Windows version.This is paid software but you can try this 30 days for free. IDM is old, popular and amazing in terms of its work. Its features include (resume capability, schedule downloads, speed limiter, website grabber, proxy servers and a lot more)
Why many people use IDM?
The reason why many people use IDM can't be summed out in just one line. There are many reasons for its popularity.Today people are using advanced technology but are not aware of the science behind that great technology. They want easy to use and best user-friendly software. IDM provides all these features. IDM have a white background, options have a thumbnail and easy to use intro.
Besides many other people are also using IDM because of its great speed. If I say it provides you great speed then I may be wrong. But I can say it has the ability to use all internet bandwidth for faster downloads.
Why they use cracked IDM?
Everyone has a heart and brain but not everyone has enough money to buy these expansive products. Some people may have enough income but they don't want to spend it (like a Pakistani). Then what they do?They simply visit cracked software sites to download these premium products because they provide free registered software but it takes more as it looks simple and easy. I will discuss its disadvantages that give you silent great loss than advantages shown.
Does cracked IDM means virus? | The Basic meaning of cracked
Cracked do not mean to be a virus. It is a type of reverse engineering in which all algorithms of software are reversed, the registration corner is removed or registered with fake serial keys. Reversing the program of software do not make it a virus. Then why they say cracked products are not safe?Have you ever noticed why a hacker will crack software and give you free of cost without any condition and profit? Something is hidden in this case. The cracked products are most likely to be attached dangerous virus that not only affects soft computer program system but also the hardware of your computer.
That's mean cracked products are not a virus. But are mostly attached to viruses.
1) Dangerous hidden viruses | Great programmers know:
If you are using cracked IDM and even it is working quite well then it does not mean that software is safe and secure. Well, the virus will not tell you I am a virus. But you check its behavior technically. It executes secretly. There are many types of viruses. I will discuss some types of viruses.A botnet is a virus that keeps on the processing while using a big amount of ram, CPU and GPU usage. It makes your PC slow. Famous purposes are DDoS and crypto mining.
Trojan horses are the viruses that give access to administrative permission to the hacker remotely. Then a hacker can view camera, edit delete and view files, record keystrokes and much more.
Ransomware is the viruses that encrypt your all files. A message pop-ups in a startup "Your PC needs a key to decrypt files. Submit $10,000 to this bitcoin address to buy a key. Bitcoin Address: UWY87R38YEWRGR8773YUWUH".
There are many other common viruses but I am not going in brief details.
2) Cracked IDM dangerous to Privacy:
Not only hackers use viruses, but many other popular companies also use viruses to track their users for many reasons. Some of them want to give a personalized experience. And some of them wants to improve their products.They can trace your location, view history, live desktop spy and view photos and personal files. Later on, this data may be sold out to the advertisers or secret intelligence agencies.
3) Cracked IDM may not work correctly:
Many times cracked IDM relatively has slower speed than the original IDM. It may take a long time to complete its download. It may take more bandwidth of the internet. It may slow your PC or just suddenly crash.4) Cracked IDM results in adware:
Adware is a type of virus that show ads without your permission after being executed. It does not harm your PC but if it takes your internet bandwidth and electricity without your permission and without giving you any profit then it should be stopped. Ads can be bad or good. Ads may be displayed on startup screen or in browsers or in games you play or in sites you visit daily. I have experienced this virus.
Hackers are now more strong and clever but do the wrong things in a professional way. They deal with advertisers and promise them to deliver their content to most peoples and infect software with adware.
On more clicks, advertisers are benefited and then they pay huge money to the hackers. Thus hackers are benefited illegally.
5) Cracked IDM use is a crime:
Use of cracked products is a crime. Cuber security institutes are in a position to catch you. Beware, your location, and your act is exposed to all these cybersecurity researchers. If they are sincere to their work they will take action according to the law and rules.Many cybersecurity companies do not take action because they do not get any advantage to arrest crack products users and save the software from cracking.
6) Cracked IDM discourages programmer's hard work:
Only displaying "Hello World" takes a lot of codes lines to be executed to show in a program. And you can imagine how it will take time and lines of codes to make software like IDM.
So please support and encourage programmers. Because they do hard work to prevent you and us from doing difficult jobs. If you can not support or encourage programmers then at least to discourage them by using cracked products. Say no to crack products.
What if you get all IDM's features(free + securely + legally)? | Special gift for you.
As I know IDM is paid software and you have to crack it in order to use it. Yes, IDM is a good software to use but its price is so high. In some another article, I will be presenting IDM alternatives that will be free and legal.
