[K.L.Devine]

Another reason to stay away from pirated softwares. Vista Black Edition ISO is infected with a malware which is available on BitTorrent and many warez websites.
Leaked Office 2010 Technical Preview also has malware in it.


“After MSE’s release, we’ve seen a spike in a particular variant of Win32/Bifrose – Backdoor:Win32/Bifrose.EO. Why, you ask? Well, it seems that the malware authors (or perhaps an unsuspecting pirate) are distributing a ‘cracked’ version of Windows that comes pre-infected for your convenience – labelled, fittingly, “Vista Black Edition”. Just to clarify, this means computer users are downloading an ISO of pirated Microsoft software (and saving to disk on a Genuine Windows system) and a free Microsoft anti-virus product is alerting them to a potential infection in their freshly stolen software. I’m not really sure if ‘irony’ really emphasises the situation enough. But hey, at least the Windows is free, right?” asked Matt McCormack, from MMPC Melbourne.

[PurplePeopleEater]

Is the Malware easily removed?

[ThunderROM]

LOL, you planning to download it?

[CommonSense]

I bet Microsoft did that on purpose so that people buy legitimate copies.

[PurplePeopleEater]

ThunderROM, on 24 October 2009 - 01:14 PM, said:

LOL, you planning to download it?

Maybe

[The Alpha Gamer]

What do you expect? If you're gonna pirate an OS, surely you'd pirate the official version? o_O

[Syzygy]

Isn't that the reason why smart piraters use MD5 checksums to compare against a proper version.

Or in this case, you're ****ed because its a custom version of Vista.

[Munkypoo7]

Syzygy, on 24 October 2009 - 08:35 PM, said:

Isn't that the reason why smart piraters use MD5 checksums to compare against a proper version.

^ This.

Also using Private Trackers with a good user base always helps.

[pataoengineer]

Avoid downloading it.

[PcModer]

Forget black vista, its time for Black 7!

This post has been edited by PcModer: 25 October 2009 - 03:58 AM

[Genius314]

PcModer, on 24 October 2009 - 11:22 PM, said:

Forget black vista, its time for Black 7!

If you're gonna be moving all your stuff, anyway, why not move to Black OS X!

[pataoengineer]

Genius314, on 25 October 2009 - 04:32 AM, said:

PcModer, on 24 October 2009 - 11:22 PM, said:

Forget black vista, its time for Black 7!

If you're gonna be moving all your stuff, anyway, why not move to Black OS X!

Then move along to Black Linux!!

[PurplePeopleEater]

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Genius314, on 25 October 2009 - 04:32 AM, said:

PcModer, on 24 October 2009 - 11:22 PM, said:

Forget black vista, its time for Black 7!

If you're gonna be moving all your stuff, anyway, why not move to Black OS X!

This

pataoengineer, on 25 October 2009 - 12:48 AM, said:

Then move along to Black Linux!!

Linux is free, so it's black to begin with.... once you go black you never go back

[Secured Tim]

Pirating Windows need too much time with all the constant updates. It's better to buy Windows 7 instead of searching for new cracks.

[FalseAgent]

...there's a black edition?