Most often I heard that cracking and patching.Does this sound the same meaning?Following content is for those who have doubt on it.
A crack may consist of a patch which modifies the software so you are not requested to register anymore.A crack is file that you need to copy into the program directory, replacing a file, to make the program work without a cd or whatever.
A patch can be both illegal and legal. Legal in the sense that Adobe releases a patch frequently to update photoshop with stability and fix bugs. Cracks can be fishy, since anyone can misuse the crack file to infect others, Patches on the other side, do not allow people to extract the cracked file from the Patch which makes Patches very much safer than cracks.
keygen(Key makers, or Key generators) are tiny programs which contain a huge list of serial numbers hard encoded inside among which one random serial no. is displayed every time a person clicks the “generate” button. While most of the antiviruses will detect other methods of cracking or illegally licensing a software, keygen are mostly resilient to antiviruses since their only work is to display some numbers.
references:http://r00t3r.com/difference-between-patches-cracks-keygens-noobs-guide/
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