[dayglored]

Holy Ransomware, Batman! Those evil encrypters are pretending to be Windows 10 Upgrades!!

LOOK OUT!!

[dayglored]

Yikes! I guess we should expect this kind of stuff ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[gorush]

Too late for me...but everything seems to be working well so far.

[SkyDancer]

You really would like to find those people and .......

[smokingfrog]

Any email that looks like it might come from Microsoft is almost guaranteed to be fake.

[terycarl]

In this day and age, why doesn’t someone inform the violators to either stop, remove the threat, or face extraordinary penalties....until someone does, they will continue. It amazes me that some private parties have not threatened violence against them.

[doc1019]

My son jumped (from 8.1) all over this upgrade, no problems so far ... I will wait for a while to see how thing pan out (running Windows 7). Having been around Windows since 3.0, I have learned to wait and see, that has saved me many headaches.

[Delta 21]

So far, so good. It took about 45 minutes yesterday.

I backed up to a external hard drive first.

Its kinda ugly out of the box but I am tweaking on it already.

[SkyDancer]

[Dr.Deth]

although the sender's IP address can be traced back to ________???

[chris37]

Nasty.

Being the impatient person that I am, I got tired of waiting for my reserved copy, so I just downloaded it directly from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Lovely OS. I’d describe it as a better version of 7.

[GOPJ]

"I suspect this one is going to be an absolute bastard to deal with because they use good asymmetric encryption," Craig Williams, security outreach manager of Cisco's Talos team told The Register.

Is this Chinese crap?