Genuine?

[drdanbah]

Is this a genuine adapter?

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[Eric]

"Please close the antivirus and firewall before installing". "Please diconnect the internet connection when in use". Do you really need to ask?

 

[mikesvw]

No..looks like some of the "knock offs" that I saw in France*.. 1st thing it is going to do is look to see what credit card details you have stored, then send them "somewhere"..then it is going to sit quietly on your system looking to see what else it can infiltrate..meanwhile, a piece of it is going to send all your contacts list ( email addresses a etc ) to "somewhere", so as to be able to send them emails ( with added malware, looking like the emails came from you ) ..it might have a payload that drops a two part trojan that will infect any drives or USB keys that you connect to the computer.Some will screw with your phone if you connect it.No doubt someone somewhere has written something that will infect a CAN bus too, so that it can infect whatever the car connects to in the future..the nasty possibilities are endless. Plus , it can really screw with any car connected to it and render it a boat anchor.

I'm new here..today ..new to VCDS ( thank you again to Uwe and his team for it ) ..But I know how to code, and I know malware and scumware. Could write it ( as I know could others here if our "hats" were of a different colour and if we had no morals ) .. The real VCDS , starting version ( 3 VINs ) costs around $300.00 or it's local equivalent in whatever currency is in use where you are..and does not ask you to do any of that disconnect / switch off stuff ..Ordering mine just as soon as the official website here in France says they ( out of stock ATM ) have arrived, checking every day. Badly written hacks, cracks and malware do ..even some of the well written ones do, just to confirm that to save a couple of hundred dollars, you are prepared to take a risk with your car, computer, bank account, whatever.

*French official distributor told me that they have a huge problem getting the authorities here to deal with the scam sites and the "knock offs"..IME that is the same everywhere..but it is worth you reporting the site to your local or national police , all pressure helps .

Yes I saw that "you" are verified, ( the "you" was not addressed to you @drdanbah , I used the "you" to address any one else reading that may be thinking such things might be legit, and safe..they are not. They are at best Russian roulette with your car, your computer ..more likely a bomb.

To mods and admins..apologies if my post is "out of line" for someone who has yet to be able to purchase due to local distributor waiting for their replacement stock to arrive, let alone be verified. I'll not be annoyed if this post disappears .. :-)

 

[Dr Sheldon]

Clone Pirate

 

[mikesvw]

Adressed to me Dr Sheldon ?..I hope not..? ( nor would you dare if we were face to face, I can assure you ) It is not because one can pirate,( that merely requires being able to code, and understanding a program that "disses" ) that one does pirate..If that were the case then Uwe ( who can, "code" and thus can easily "pirate" or he would not have been able to write VCDS ) would be a pirate ( of other's software, adobe et al ..not complicated at all when one knows what one is doing ) .. I know how, but I don't do it ( to any software ) , there are many of us who can, and who used to say, rightly so , in the early days.. "we are legion", but we didn't, and never would "do it".To do so is wrong.
I was hoping that you would not reply to any of my threads ( which is why the title of my 1st post asked for "constructive", replies, which I have noticed , yours never are ) , you ( and I have read many many threads here prior to making my 1st post as any admin with access to IP records s can attest ) are IMO the most unconstructive of all posters that any new poster can have reply, exemplified by your choice of avatar.Which avatar , BTW, is some one else's intellectual property..as a designer and photographer, I consider you to be the pirate..Unless you have the written permission of the person who owns the rights to the image that you use for your avatar at the time of my posting.

Thank you @Eric.. you understand where I'm coming from and what my morality is . even if the remarks in my post to Dr Sheldon* ( who comes over as an "under the bridge dweller" in all the posts I have read of his, maybe I'm wrong, in which case I apologise ) in my post gets me banned from here , ( and will if that happens, cost me a great deal of money €5000.00 and inconvenience ) I will not change my morals, I do not pirate, ever , and I'll still will buy VCDS Hex V2 as soon as it is available ( in stock again ) to me where I am.

*this is the only poster here , and I have read many many posts here, where I have thought..Why the aggression to other posters. why do these posts stand ? even from a paid up poster? I've modded and admined many many forums over decades..from a commercial point of view, having read Dr Sheldon's posts ( during the years he has been posting ) over the past 10 days or so. I can genuinely say that I was hesitant about buying VCDS , if that was the kind of poster whose posts were accepted in a support forum for a commercial product. I'll buy it, but I know ( from running forums based upon this software , that I can "ignore" him /her and will do so )...Bur seriously, @Uwe and admins, mods ..I'd have "ban hammered" that poster long ago, paid or not. even if it meant refunding..the most unwelcoming poster I have seen in decades on the internet out side of 4chan. I'd recommend VCDS to anyone, but for the possibility of him replying to a post. I think other readers ( prior to buying VCDS ) and looking at the possible "support" would think the same , you have a very useful / vital product if one owns a VAG car, a very welcoming, helpful forum , apart from Dr Sheldon.

 

[mikesvw]

Thank you @Uwe ;-) and "mods";-) ..done, dusted..I hope..