There’s some intense internet drama going down right now over FSLabs’ A320. Someone on reddit points out it comes with malware that steals your passwords from Chrome. Instead of doing the smart thing and getting a lawyer or going into hiding, the dev explains that it’s okay because they only use it against pirates.
If such a specific serial number is used by a pirate (a person who has illegally obtained our software) and the installer verifies this against the pirate serial numbers stored in our server database, it takes specific measures to alert us. “Test.exe” is part of the DRM and is only targeted against specific pirate copies of copyrighted software obtained illegally.
https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/7yh4zu/fslabs_a320_installer_seems_to_include_a_chrome/
The game’s own forum with the developers’ response:
https://forums.flightsimlabs.com/index.php?/topic/16210-malware-in-installer/