Hackers hawk booby trapped Windows 7
MICROSOFT IS WARNING punters that they should download the Windows 7 RC from a trusted source after a few booby-trapped versions appeared on the world wide wibble.
Joe Williams, general manager, Worldwide Genuine Windows at Microsoft, told AFP, "In the last few days we've seen reports of illegitimate distributions of the release candidate of our lastest Windows operating system, Windows 7, being offered in a way that is designed to infect a customer's PC with malware."
Ironically, this week Vole has been trumpeting the anti-piracy protections it claims to have built into Windows 7 in order to thwart the spread of illegal copies of the operating system while being less irritating than Vista's.
Windows 7 has pop-up boxes that will warn people when unauthorised copies of software are spied on computers. µ
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I think the version I downlaaded directlyfrom Microsoft is hacked as well. After running Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor which said that I could do an upgrade to Windows 7 succesfully, I inserted disk with windows 7 and commenced the install...After an hour or so and after several reboots, Windows 7 install rebooted for the final time....and after cleaning up it reverted to Vista.
No explanation other than it could not install properly and that I should use Windows 7 upgrade advisor to find out why......
Who need a Hacked version when Windows 7 just leaves you with Vista .
Lab Tech, your comment is a complete joke. Learn some language basics befor you start annoying people.
You ruined the good feeling I had after the article.
That post is a "drashek" post, and you'll learn to ignore them, as they seem to be generated by a bot or something.
That post is almost funny anyway.
..maybe, if they made the release available to everyone at the same time instead of
1. letting it leak
2. releasing to MSDN next
3. releasing to everyone else last
In my experience, setup.exe on the root of the first leaked build 7100 ISOs were infected with a nasty root kit, however you could still boot from the CD (or run update.exe) and get what looks like a clean install of Win7. Just don't run that setup.exe on a 32 bit system.
@Silent: Drashek is the mascot of INQ. :P
See this:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1015077/drashek-buster-tips
(and the comments as well)
@BB: Nope, drashek isn't a bot. Even a bot can't produce such nonsense. But that doesn't mean he's a homo sapien either. He's even got a facebook account:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Thomas-Stewart-Von-Drashek/583087688
Why not post MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of the .ISO files, so people can verify they’ve got the genuine article, regardless of the source they got it from? All the Linux distro providers figured this out a long time ago. That way they don’t have to bear the burden of being the sole genuine provider.
By the way, isn’t it ironic that Microsoft is distributing things as .ISO files, a format that Windows itself doesn’t have any built-in capability for dealing with?
Don't download the Torrent version that is an ISO enclosed in a .RAR file that actually contains the TROJAN.
People should read the comments before clicking on such a file anyway. Torrents don't get up voted or down voted for nothing.
It's all just another case of pathetically dumb individuals not RTFM.
I'd like to see that lot try and RTFM for doing things in Linux. I bet they would turn EMO in a second.
Some people are just born to be Mac and nothing more.
Read Drashek's soon to be deleted geocities page here:
http://www.geocities.com/tsvondrashekmd/TS.html
He's for real, and we love him.