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Most of pirated Vista is Malware

Published January 26th, 2007 in Malware, Piracy

Now here is something interesting. The people at DriveSentry stated that about half of all pirated versions of Microsoft Vista are in fact Trojan horses. Talk about learning a harsh lesson. While DriveSentry has proved themselves as a reputable security company, it’s amazing to think that almost half of the people that either wanted Vista for free or couldn’t wait until this coming Monday for the personal release have infected their systems. I wonder how many people who have illegally acquired Vista know about this?

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.[more]

Tags: Malware, Piracy

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