Ran A "Cracked" version of Screenflow and Now my mac is running slowly...

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Hello. I'm teke. I am the owner of a MacBook, Mid 2010 with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4, 8 GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz. Now, I was on thepiratebay (which is likely frowned upon by some) and came across a program called "Screenflow." I am a youtuber as well, so I thought, "Hey, why not?" I decided to download it, and had the dmg in my downloads folder for about two days. I ran it once as a test (all it was was Screenflow inside of the dmg and a txt file about a cracked serial code) and it ran fine. No weird things going on. That was about 2 weeks ago. Today, I decided to test it again, but this time with some more things running. I had Skype, a Minecraft client (with mods, whether this is relevant, I don't know), a Minecraft server (allocated with 2 GB of ram) and attempting to boot up screenflow. I booted it directly out of the dmg without a problem, but when I hit the start recording button, the people talking in my ear suddenly stopped talking. I looked on my screen, and saw I had gotten a kernel panic message. I had no idea what this was, so (assuming it was a virus of some kind), went on the computer I'm posting from now and Googled it. I don't know why, but when I restarted the computer in "safe mode" by holding down shift, I found that it was running incredibly slowly. Now, keep in mind that when idle, this computer usually has about 6.5 GB of RAM unused. After the restart happened, I have about 1.37 GB free with a few processes I don't recognize (such as "netbiosd, diskarbitrationd, cookied, stackshot, pboard, and a few others) running and taking up the majority of that ram as well as keeping both of the cores of my CPU fairly high (around 75% for either of them, saw it spiking at 100 on both at one point). I am panicking right now. I am running a virus scan, and Googling the crap out of these unknown processes, but I haven't found anyone yet that was saying anything about thepiratebay or anything like that. I realize it may be a good idea to run things found on thepiratebay, but I wasn't thinking at the time. Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: Also, unable to find anything in the search thing in the top right corner of finder. o.o
 

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