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Leaked copies of Windows 7 RC contain Trojan
ComputerWorld ^
| May 4, 2009
| Gregfg Keizer
Posted on 05/05/2009 7:35:35 PM PDT by dayglored
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Now let's see how rapidly the MSM and mainstream Tech press pick up on this -- compared to how breathlessly they covered the Trojan in Apple's iWorks a few months ago.
Nope.
Windows pirated software is hacked? Who cares?
Dog bites man... not news. *sigh*
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:35:35 PM PDT
by
dayglored
To: ShadowAce; Swordmaker
Tech and Mac *pings*, please?
Who has the Windows 7 pinglist?
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:36:49 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
Windows 7... Trojan ? Screwed by MSFT again !!!
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:37:19 PM PDT
by
Plane_Guy
To: dayglored
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:37:24 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: dayglored
The high end versions of Windows 7 will have XP emulation in a virtual system. Anyone know if the lower end versions of 7 will have XP compatibility mode like Vista Home?
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:37:54 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
("Remember when Bush was President & Americans had jobs?")
To: Frantzie
>
Anyone know if the lower end versions of 7 will have XP compatibility mode like Vista Home? Probably not. The XP virtual is what will be supported for compatibility, only in the high end.
As far as I can tell, the low-end users are in the dust.
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:39:08 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Plane_Guy
So people who download a pirated copy of software from a file sharing site have Gates to blame?
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:41:10 PM PDT
by
steveo
To: A CA Guy
>
Serves them right. If by "them" you mean the idiots that download known-pirated software, I totally agree.
And what really gets me in this case is... Win7 RC is FREE!!! Why bother to get it from a pirate when Microsoft is giving it away???
I already got my copies from MS. Looking forward to playing with it soon....
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:41:36 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
Generic headlines:
Pope condemns violence
Britney Spears behaves irrationally
Flaw found in Microsoft Windows Operating System.
In all fairness to MS, this wasn't an MS release. It was on a bit torrent site, and it's dangerous as heck to download an executable off a torrent. I don't care how good the operating system is, if you download a program and give it permission to run, it can do stuff to your system.
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:42:47 PM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: Plane_Guy
>
Windows 7... Trojan ? Screwed by MSFT again !!! This is not Microsoft's doing. Their downloads are clean. This is somebody else, malware basturds.
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:43:06 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Richard Kimball
>
Flaw found in Microsoft Windows Operating System. In all fairness to MS, this wasn't an MS release. Yep. This has nothing to do with Microsoft's own release. This is about malware slime and the idiots who download it.
Hmmm, sounds like a title for a Jerry Springer episode...
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:44:56 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
MSFT is so screwed up. They put XP compatibility in Vista Home buty now they leave it out in low end Windows 7.
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:46:48 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
("Remember when Bush was President & Americans had jobs?")
To: dayglored
It seems the problem was in the 64-bit versions only....so far.
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:47:33 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Learn about the 'cytokine storm.')
To: dayglored
Yeah, I’m referring to the pirated stuff.
I have nothing against MS or their PC computers.
I think they are a much more efficient deal than Apple and unless you click stupid stuff, it is rather tough to get a virus on the web IMO.
I run with only a firewall and have had zero viruses in years.
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:50:05 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Frantzie
>
They put XP compatibility in Vista Home buty now they leave it out in low end Windows 7. 1. I don't know for certain that it's not in Win7 Home. But I have not heard that it is.
2. It would be very surprising if they left it in Win7, -along with- the XP VM.
3. Win7 is just Vista with the fat taken out. I'm willing to bet that XP compatibility in Home was considered "fat".
4. I'm willing to be proven wrong if anybody has a reliable Microsoftie quote about XP compatibility mode in Win7 Home.
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:50:52 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Petronski
>
It seems the problem was in the 64-bit versions only....so far. Interesting. Thanks for the extra tip...
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:52:59 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
malware slimeNow that is a great band name. Acid rock with a nod to Johnny Rotten.
To: AH_LiveRight
>>
malware slime > Now that is a great band name. Acid rock with a nod to Johnny Rotten.
HA!! PERFECT!!
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posted on
05/05/2009 7:57:00 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: steveo
Yes. In socialist utopias like Obama’s america, all technology is a “right” and should thus be free.
To: dayglored
Last year I bought a new laptop with Vista on it and it took me about a day to realize I made a mistake and wiped the harddrive clean and put win XP on it and it runs great. Yea it could be a little more classier looking like Vista but that's XP for ya. I know a lot of folks who did not upgrade to Vista from XP I wonder how many will upgrade to RC7 does the RC stand for Royal Crap #7?
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posted on
05/05/2009 8:09:11 PM PDT
by
guitarplayer1953
(Psalm 83:1-8 is on the horizon.)
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