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eweek.com - 5/13/2009

Pirated Windows 7 Builds Botnet with Trojan

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Security researchers at Damballa report shutting down the command and control server of a botnet built by a Trojan bundled with pirated copies of Windows 7 RC. The Trojan is believed to have infected thousands of users. - Attackers pushing pirated, malware-laced copies of Microsoft's upcoming ...

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news.cnet.com - 5/18/2009

Dell says Windows 7 price is possible barrier

— news.cnet.com — Windows 7 pricing is potentially an obstacle to Windows 7 adoption for some users, though in just... about every other aspect the operating system is beating Vista, according to a Dell marketing executive. "If there's one thing that may influence ... (more) Dell says Windows 7 price is possible barrier

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pcworld.com - 5/7/2009

Speed Test: Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista

— pcworld.com — Improving performance is one of Microsoft's design goals with Windows 7, and many early reviewers (including ours... ) have said that the new OS seems peppier than Vista. But tests of the Windows 7 Release Candidate in our PC World Test Center found that ... (more) Speed Test: Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista

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blogs.msdn.com - 5/11/2009

Our Next Engineering Milestone

— blogs.msdn.com — Back in January we released the Beta and updated you on our overall engineering process that will... get us from Beta to the Release Candidate.  Today, downloading of the Release Candidate started and we’re already seeing a lot of installations and ... (more) Our Next Engineering Milestone

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Pirated Windows 7 Builds Botnet with Trojan
Madshrimps News RSS Feed — ... Security researchers at Damballa report shutting down the command and control server of a botnet built by a Trojan bundled with pirated copies of Windows 7 RC. The Trojan is believed to have infected thousands of users. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Pi...Trojan-456054/ ...

Pirated Windows 7 versions come with a Trojan
DV Hardware — ... them on BitTorrent sites. Damballa reported that it shut down the botnet's command and control server May 10, but by that time infection rates had risen as high as 552 users per hour. "Since the pirated package was released on April 24th, my best guess is that this botnet probably had at least 27,000 successful installs prior to our takedown of its CnC [command and control] on May 10th," said Tripp Cox, vice president of engineering at Damballa. Source: eWeek Pirated Windows 7 versions come with a Trojan - More ...

Malware found in counterfeit copies of Windows 7 RC
TechSpot — Been testing out the release candidate version of Windows 7? Well, if you grabbed yourself a copy of the operating system through BitTorrent rather than Microsoft’s official servers then you might be in for a surprise. Several news outlets are reporting that a new piece of malware embedded into counterfeit copies of Windows 7 is being used to build out a botnet of compromised PCs. According to researchers at security firm Damballa, the infected software which is rigged with a Trojan downloader first appeared on April 24, and spread to thousands of zombie computers by the time ...