[dayglored]

Now let's see how rapidly the MSM and mainstream Tech press pick up on this -- compared to how breathlessly they covered the Trojan in Apple's iWorks a few months ago.

Nope.

Windows pirated software is hacked? Who cares?

Dog bites man... not news. *sigh*

[dayglored]

Tech and Mac *pings*, please?

Who has the Windows 7 pinglist?

[Plane_Guy]

Windows 7... Trojan ? Screwed by MSFT again !!!

[A CA Guy]

Serves them right.

[Frantzie]

The high end versions of Windows 7 will have XP emulation in a virtual system. Anyone know if the lower end versions of 7 will have XP compatibility mode like Vista Home?

[Richard Kimball]

Generic headlines:

Pope condemns violence

Britney Spears behaves irrationally

Flaw found in Microsoft Windows Operating System.

In all fairness to MS, this wasn't an MS release. It was on a bit torrent site, and it's dangerous as heck to download an executable off a torrent. I don't care how good the operating system is, if you download a program and give it permission to run, it can do stuff to your system.

[Petronski]

It seems the problem was in the 64-bit versions only....so far.

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

...copies of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) on file-sharing sites contain malware...

Seems redundant to me. To Linux guys, Win 7 is the malware. ;-)

[freedom9]

I loaded Windows 7 64 earlier today. Downloaded from MS site.

It’s free until June next year although they will start shutting down the system every two hours starting next march.

I bought Vista several years back and although I messed with it a few times it never stayed on my hard drive more than a few days due to compatibility problems with a few programs I liked and didn’t want to give up. I stuck with XP.

After seeing that those particular programs are in the process of being worked on for Windows 7, I decided to check it out. Never tried a 64 bit system before, (never knew my system would run in 64 bit).

But it seems OK so far but won’t let me load flash to watch youtube and other online videos, but they’re working on that too.

I have 5 gigs of memory and Windows 7 lets me use it all.

There is a considerable quality upgrade using DX10 for gaming. Crysis is a whole new experience.

I will probably stick with this unless something seriously goes wrong.

[ShadowAce]

[McGruff]

...copies first appearing on BitTorrent tracking sites on April 24. Some of the pirated builds include a Trojan horse,

If someone is stupid enough to trust BitTorrent downloads I have no sympathy for them. Especially since you can download it free from a reputable site like Download.com.

http://download.cnet.com/Windows-7/3000-18513_4-10906772.html?tag=mncol;txt

[antiRepublicrat]

This is why I have been waiting for the official public release.