Leaked copies of Windows 7 RC contain Trojan

Some pirated builds on file-sharing sites harbor attack code

Pirated copies of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) on file-sharing sites contain malware, according to users who have downloaded the upgrade.

Windows 7 RC, which Microsoft Corp. will officialy launch tomorrow, leaked two weeks ago, with copies first appearing on BitTorrent tracking sites on April 24.

Some of the pirated builds include a Trojan horse, numerous users said in message forums and in comments on BitTorrent sites such as Mininova.org.

More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132522

Doctor Inferno wrote:

Some pirated builds on file-sharing sites harbor attack code

Pirated copies of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) on file-sharing sites contain malware, according to users who have downloaded the upgrade.

Windows 7 RC, which Microsoft Corp. will officialy launch tomorrow, leaked two weeks ago, with copies first appearing on BitTorrent tracking sites on April 24.

Some of the pirated builds include a Trojan horse, numerous users said in message forums and in comments on BitTorrent sites such as Mininova.org.

More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132522

Mine is clean, dled from TPB. Scanned with ESET SS4, its clean

We do not recommend users to download any RC or beta releases of Win 7, this kinda trick was pulled with RC/beta releases of Vista too.

Belahzur wrote:

We do not recommend users to download any RC or beta releases of Win 7, this kinda trick was pulled with RC/beta releases of Vista too.

The win7 beta release was pretty stable IMO, so i ditched my vista after using it for afew months. It no harm trying if u are sure of what you are doing

I got the RC from the Microsoft website and only using it on a secondary laptop