Posted on 05/05/2009 7:35:35 PM PDT by dayglored
Some pirated builds on file-sharing sites harbor attack code...
Pirated copies of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) on file-sharing sites contain malware, according to users who have downloaded the upgrade.
Windows 7 RC, which Microsoft Corp. will officialy launch tomorrow, leaked two weeks ago, with copies first appearing on BitTorrent tracking sites on April 24.
Some of the pirated builds include a Trojan horse, numerous users said in message forums and in comments on BitTorrent sites such as Mininova.org.
"Just a warning for anyone downloading the new RC builds of windows 7. Quiet [sic] a lot of the downloads have a trojan inbedded [sic] in the setup EXE," said someone identified as Frank Fontaine on a Neowin.net discussion thread. "The Setup EXE is actually a container, it appears to be a self-extracting EXE. There are 2 files inside, Setup.exe and codec.exe."
Fontaine's antivirus software identified the "codec.exe" file as a generic Trojan.
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Windows 7 RC is not the first leaked software found to harbor attack code. In January 2009, for example, security experts warned that pirated copies of Apple Inc.'s then-new iWork '09 suite contained a Trojan horse that hijacked Macs.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
Nope.
Windows pirated software is hacked? Who cares?
Dog bites man... not news. *sigh*
Who has the Windows 7 pinglist?
Windows 7... Trojan ? Screwed by MSFT again !!!
Serves them right.
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?
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.
So people who download a pirated copy of software from a file sharing site have Gates to blame?
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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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.
This is not Microsoft's doing. Their downloads are clean. This is somebody else, malware basturds.
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...
MSFT is so screwed up. They put XP compatibility in Vista Home buty now they leave it out in low end Windows 7.
It seems the problem was in the 64-bit versions only....so far.
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.
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.
Interesting. Thanks for the extra tip...
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> Now that is a great band name. Acid rock with a nod to Johnny Rotten.
HA!! PERFECT!!
Yes. In socialist utopias like Obama’s america, all technology is a “right” and should thus be free.
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