Cybercriminals Launch Tainted Windows 7 RC
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversThe official launch of the Windows 7 Release Candidate last May 5 was soon followed by another version of the software, only that this other version came with a malware surprise.
A file being hosted in popular torrent sites posing as a copy of the Windows 7 RC was found to be a Trojan by security researchers. The file which arrives with the file name setup.exe is detected as TROJ_DROPPER.SPX. TROJ_DROPPER.SPX drops TROJ_AGENT.NICE. Both files are detected by the Smart Protection Network.
Windows 7 Release Candidate was leaked a couple of weeks prior to the official release, and was also hosted by and downloaded from popular torrent sites. This was followed by a reported downtime in the download page for the Windows 7 Beta, which was attributed to too many download requests.
With Windows 7 showing much promise as early as now, it isn’t really surprising that cybercriminals are using the operating system to distribute malware not necessarily as a platform, but as a social engineering technique.
Those interested in obtaining a copy of the release candidate are advised to get it from the Microsoft Windows 7 website.
source:
blog.trendmicro.com
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Comments(5)
perhaps. but what i got was a great new working os at rc level, 2 weeks before i should
have.
if you want to make sure your getting the right os just do a hash check and then you
won't get cough out
7127 x 64 should mach this hash,i checked my copy against this hash.
windows 7 build
7127 x64 (64-bit):
7127.0.090507-1820_x64fre_client_en-us_retail_ultimate-grmculxfrer_en_dvd.iso
md5
f805a6595ddc6d12956588bb0f1b9b83
sha1 9beb69be3c2d113eceb944145951a2123fbbbbf8
crc-32 460fad4e
windows 7 build 7127 x86 (32-bit):
7127.0.090507-1820_x86fre_client_en-us_retail_ultimate-grmculfrer_en_dvd.iso
md5
4045cb2a8e50b65ed9e1c2b8d6026b2f
sha1 f2d615e674b64053d299cfa5e80b777269f0dff2
crc-32 f691687f
i don't care about stolen my privacy data..!
because there no my important data
i'm only play game on my pc..!
game game and game..!
i like that sound..!
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By ppp333 on 22.05.2009 - 12:05