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Oh yes, this has been going on for a very long time. A lot of cracked software is infected with trojans. But with the right source, you can find clean software. Trojan malware is much more common than traditional viruses now. It gives much more control and more options to hackers. It also gives an outlet for script kiddies who don't know a thing about programming.

I was getting my tools from friends around and never seen a good source tho. it is quite hard to find a one.

I still deal with crackers named CORE (Challenge Of Reverse Engineering) and Black Riders, both of which are clean and reputable.

There was a very Impressive team named "Edge", who used to RE every Norton product available. All of a sudden, they disappeared off the net. This was around 6 years ago.