Half of pirated Vista is malware

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Jason said:
I found this article that is interesting.
"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"
Feel free to read the complete article below

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/25/HNpiratedvista_1.html
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They are right, in principle - but I wonder how they come to know that
"about half..."
Estimated? Or did they download all that stuff and check it?

Roy
 
Well, I just read the wiki on Trojan Horse. And I think Vista itself met
the 2nd definition all by itself.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_(computing)


Quote:
There are two common types of Trojan horses. One, is otherwise useful
software that has been corrupted by a cracker inserting malicious code that
executes while the program is used. Examples include various implementations
of weather alerting programs, computer clock setting software, and peer to
peer file sharing utilities. The other type is a standalone program that
masquerades as something else, like a game or image file, in order to trick
the user into some misdirected complicity that is needed to carry out the
program's objectives.
 
DriveSentry is a security startup. John Lynch is supposed to be marketing
it.
Evidently people there passed some time downloading cracked Vistas. I would
have guessed 100% would have had malware, but he he said more like half.
As to how thorough they were, you could try to reach him at DriveSentry
sales: http://www.drivesentry.com/contact.htm or attempt to place your
off-topic question in the DriveSentry forum: http://forum.drivesentry.com
 
Did they give you a list of which half do not contain malware or malicious
scripts?

CH
 
They are right, in principle - but I wonder how they come to know that
"about half..."
Estimated? Or did they download all that stuff and check it?

Roy
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You steal software and you get what you deserve... **** thiefs.
 
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