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Posted 26 January 2007 - 11:35 AM

About half of the downloads claiming to be free versions of Microsoft's Vista operating system are actually malicious Trojan horse software, security vendor DriveSentry warned Thursday.

With Vista's consumer launch just days away, hackers have been bombarding discussion boards with offers of "cracked" versions of Windows Vista, which are typically being distributed on peer-to-peer networks, said John Lynch, vice president of sales and marketing for DriveSentry.

These posts offer downloads of the operating system that skip Vista's activation process, created by Microsoft to prevent users from running illegal copies.

Users who fall for the scam can end up with some pretty nasty problems, according to Lynch. DriveSentry researchers have found malicious key-logging software and spyware on about half of the downloads it has examined recently, he said.

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Posted 26 January 2007 - 12:11 PM

<_< not surprising.
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Posted 26 January 2007 - 05:42 PM

I already know that :P
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Posted 26 January 2007 - 10:42 PM

nothing new
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Posted 27 January 2007 - 01:01 AM

LOL
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Posted 27 January 2007 - 01:58 AM

Who couldn't have guessed that?
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Posted 27 January 2007 - 02:37 AM

View PostMerforga, on Jan 26 2007, 05:58 PM, said:

Who couldn't have guessed that?


The people who downloaded it. :lol:
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Posted 27 January 2007 - 02:58 AM

You get what you deserve...

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Posted 28 January 2007 - 05:19 PM

It means half of pirated Windows Vista on BitTorrent actually works?!!!
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Posted 29 January 2007 - 02:06 PM

Yes, but downloading any exe file with BitTorrent is risky.
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Posted 29 January 2007 - 09:20 PM

Remind me, DriveSentry is Micro$oft's affiliate, right? Usually, about 1 in every 50 BitTorrent downloads are malware. This could just be M$'s little propaganda...
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 05:39 PM

How would they know?
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