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comes from illegal sources, more than half of the software that is installed in Poland. Manufacturers lose out about $ 650 million a year – according to data from the BSA organization. Pirated software is not only illegal, but dangerous. By purchasing or downloading them from the Internet users at risk getting infected with a computer virus that could allow the use of equipment by criminals.

– scale piracy, if we are talking about official statistics BSA, it is 53 per cent., more than half of the software installed during the year on the Polish computer software is illegal, stolen, software of unknown origin at this dangerous – says Krzysztof Janiszewski, the main Intellectual Property Specialist Microsoft Poland.

not disclose how much the piracy in Poland loses Microsoft, but acknowledges that it is a serious problem, and the losses certainly are “measured in six-dollar value.” According to calculations by the Business Software Alliance, an organization fighting against piracy, the illegal software in Poland, all manufacturers are losing a total of about $ 650 million.

Therefore, as explained by Janiszewski, Microsoft tracking illegal software dealers, inter alia, auction sites, checking particularly “beneficial” offer to sell, in the case of detection of illegal copies refer the matter to the police. Such actions are having an effect, as shown in the April police action when he failed to stop illegal software dealer. Krzysztof Janiszewski emphasizes that it was particularly dangerous for users.

– By analyzing the media, which were included in the software package, we could say that with Microsoft software are included viruses, which were to include connect these computers on which you install the software oblivious to the botnet, and what is hidden – use by criminals – explains Krzysztof Janiszewski.

Network botnet is a group of infected computers are under the remote control of the creator of the virus, so that it can be used eg to send spam and other attacks on the network.

Only in this case the value of the protected software, Microsoft reached over 200 thousand. z?. The dealer also had the third-party programs, such as Corel. Police took the offender even though he used extremely complicated login method. Janiszewski points out that there are indications that because of the criminal group is.

– According to our information, the monitoring of the conduct of more than two years, there are many more such cases, but this was a very clever and mischievous. Recently we have made some additional purchases “verification” just to collect evidence and make further requests from the police – says Janiszewski.

According to a study by an international firm IDC, a huge percentage of the software is downloaded from illegal websites or on physical media, but duplicated by criminal groups, includes various types of malicious applications and viruses.

– We try to inform users and potential buyers of software that not only threaten them with legal consequences, but also the even more painful, palpable, as the loss of their personal data, loss of account numbers, the loss of privacy on the web. This is all related to the software from an unknown source – says Krzysztof Janiszewski.