Half of pirated Vista is malware

Alleged "cracked" versions of Vista appearing on peer-to-peer networks often turn out to be Trojan horses

Source : *www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/25/HNpiratedvista_1.html

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thank for info

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thanx for telling us.

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Always Welcome Digitians

Serves them right, especially all those posting Vista queries here

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Another propaganda from Microsoft and their allies. I had installed vista. They was no malware or other malicious and this are hogwash.

thunderbird.117 said:
Another propaganda from Microsoft and their allies. I had installed vista. They was no malware or other malicious and this are hogwash.

Are you an OS security expert?

....and its not like there isn't going to be any spyware AFTER installing an original copy. Before - After, what's the difference...(read: my avatar)

who downloads windows from p2p.......well i think no one should download softwares from p2p like limewire and stuff .... cuzz all viruses/trojans .... i only prefer audio and video from p2p..........

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NucleusKore said:
Are you an OS security expert?

I have checked. Iam not a expert. Iam studying security. Iam learning various things in security. Well from what i can tell vista is cracked. All they have to get vista is proper source.

And Vista is only thing which contains Malware. Almost any software,games, keygen, trainers contain spyware, trojans, malware from p2p. The people who download those should get the files from good sources. I can not tell you the examples here.

"DriveSentry has also seen criminals disguise Trojans as free versions of Windows XP in the past, Lynch said." From the link.

Even XP had those. But that did stop pirates. Neither that will stop vista.

he said half of pirated vista is malware !! im in other half and enjoying vista

thunderbird.117 said:
I have checked. Iam not a expert. Iam studying security. Iam learning various things in security.

Ok

Thanks for the info

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If you get it from BitTorrent, you can check out the comments posted by others at the tracker to see if it's okay or not, then you can mount the ISO and scan it with several security tools. And if you're still skeptical, you can always run the OS on VMWare (although Aero won't work) and see if something bad happens.

Ok. Where can I find the other half...

Just joking...

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All the madarasi's and related posts removed and madarasi is banned, now lets continue the discussion as it was.

One thing I would like to point out though. If the cracked Vista cannot be patched with the official patches from time to time, its not worth having. One is really asking for trouble.
A little off topic, I did find the price for home users a bit steep. I could buy a laser printer instead and continue using XP and Open SuSE.

thanks

Com'on. If you have to fill monopolist pockets go & spend 15000 for ultimate we are happy with. Don't scare by malware. Threat of malware is spread by MS and its agents because they saw infront of thier eyes, Vista & Office 2007 came to under ground market and they couldn't do anything.

premsharma said:
Com'on. If you have to fill monopolist pockets go & spend 15000 for ultimate we are happy with. Don't scare by malware.

I have a far better idea, I will stick to linux. Am quite happy. No malware (and no Femalware) yet :-D

Though Vista is not bad. Surfing is faster than XP. They tried their best to make it hard to crack but nothing is impossible.

i think that's an overestimation, barely 20% of those cracks are malware