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Windows 10 Anniversary Update Borks Dual-Boot Partitions
The Windows 10 anniversary may interfere with, affect and even delete other partitions on the same disk. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/windows-10-anniversary-update-delete-partition
It seems that the latest version of Microsoft's OS has attention issues. Not content with forcing itself on users who didn't want it, it may be taking even more drastic steps of hosing other operating systems entirely!
A handful of reports surfacing on social media suggest, anecdotally, that the Windows 10 anniversary may interfere with, affect and even delete other partitions on the same disk.
If these claims are accurate —and do keep in mind that various different factors may be at play in these cases — it would be a pretty shocking situation.
Classic Shell, Audacity downloads infected with classic MBR nuke nasty
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/04/classicshell_audicity_infection/
Classic Shell and Audacity downloads were booby-trapped with an old-school software nasty this week that knackered victims' Windows PCs.
Hackers were able to inject some retro-malware into the popular applications' installers hosted on fosshub.com, an official home for Classic Shell and Audacity releases among other software projects.
When victims fetched the tainted downloads and ran them, rather than install the expected app, the computer's Master Boot Record (MBR) was replaced with code that, during the next reboot or power on, displayed a cheeky message and prevented the machine from starting up properly. The drive's partition table was also likely damaged.
We thought these sorts of shenanigans died in the 1980s or early 1990s. In order for this to work, the victim would have to click through a warning that the download was not legit
-- submitted from IRC
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by mendax on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:07PM
There are many people who will literally believe anything their computer tells them and will subsequently click on anything. Some malware ad pops up saying "Your Windows is Insecure. Click HERE", and they do, infecting and infesting their computers with all sorts of nastiness. I was helping a friend out with the issues that popped up because of that but stopped doing so because he would not stop going to porn sites. May of us know that if you want to get PWNed, going to a porn site is a great way to accomplish the feat. I came to the conclusion that he is someone who should NEVER be allowed to use a computer. My ladyfriend has a similar problem with a friend of hers, only in this case she caught her friend doing much the same thing with my ladyfriend's laptop. There is a reason why I NEVER let people use my computers.
There are some lessons to be learned here:
1. If you don't know what you're doing, you should NEVER use a computer.
2. Some people are too dumb to learn what you should NEVER do with a computer.
3. Some people will believe anything told to them. (Witness the rise of Donald Trump and the nonsense that comes out of his mouth.)
4. I'm in the wrong line of work. I should have ditched any sense of moral conduct and conscience and become a Russian hacker. I'd have my own 200-room dacha on the Black Sea by now and be Vladimir Putin's best buddy.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:19PM
What about a guest account without administrative access?
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:23PM
Playing with fire
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 2) by mendax on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:52PM
Never! Numquam! Ποτέ! Ніколи! Nie! 決して！ 決不！ Nunca! 못! Kamwe! Никад! Aldrig! Ungalokothi! ບໍ່ເຄີຍ! Aole loa! Nigdy! कभी नहीँ! أبدا! לעולם לא! Kunagi! Ei ikinä! Никогда! Qet! ဘယ်တော့မှမ! קיינמאָל! ไม่! Aldri! Эч качан! በጭራሽ! Ҳеҷ гоҳ! Không bao giờ! Nikoli! Hindi kailanman! Хэзээ ч бүү! कधीही नाही! ક્યારેય! ਕਦੇ! Heç vaxt! Soha! Mai! Nu! නැහැ! Nakanye! Jamais! Nooit! មិនដែល! কখনই নয়!
There are only so many ways I can say "no", but Google Translate helps me find more of them.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @09:40PM
Okay, I believe you... can you explain why?
Assuming the person is not acting maliciously (maybe stupidly, like going to malware sites, but not maliciously like erasing files or putting in boot-disks)... how much trouble can you get into if somebody is using a non-administrative guest account on your computer?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @01:46AM
Non-administrative guest accounts can turn into more real quick with the right privilege escalation or ACE exploit.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:41PM
I was helping a friend out with the issues that popped up because of that but stopped doing so because he would not stop going to porn sites. May of us know that if you want to get PWNed, going to a porn site is a great way to accomplish the feat.
Just run AdBlock and NoScript and unblock the minimum number of domains to get them to work and you'll be fine.
(But this is a luser we're talking about so whatever)
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @09:49PM
May of us know that if you want to get PWNed, going to a porn site is a great way to accomplish the feat.
What are you talking about? That statement is 10 years or so out of date. On today's Internet, the porn sites are the reputable ones. You know, having IT staff, vetting ads and such. Porn sites depend on good user experience, as it's a very competitive marketplace.
No, if you want to get pwned, go to almost any "mainstream" site without AdBlock and NoScript. If your browser & connection survive the autoplay video ads and megabyte-sized scripts, you will soon pick up some ransomware and a trojan or two.
(Score: 2) by number11 on Thursday August 04 2016, @11:55PM
May of us know that if you want to get PWNed, going to a porn site is a great way to accomplish the feat.
Personally, I've seen a lot more trouble resulting from people visiting yahoo.com, where apparently nobody vets the syndicated ads to keep malware out of them. I'm sure that with Verizon in charge, things will change.
I didn't say "for the better".
Actually, a Symantec report said that these days you were 3X more likely to get infected visiting a religious website than a porn one. Maybe because the porn sites have hired IT guys who are competent, so you can use your hands for other things than being poised over the kill switch. Porn's got the cash flow to hire good help. Pastor Smith is likely to just trust in God, who never was really much of an IT guy.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @07:09AM
Myth status: Busted.
Those who actually took the time to look into the matter, found that porn sites are very careful not to allow any kind of malware. They are already looked down upon, they don't want to make it worse.
Where as any site with a large green download button (e.g. SourceForge) is a very likely place to get malware, as is any site with third-party advertising (i.e. those who don't run their own inhouse ad-space sales department).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @09:58AM
Boy oh boy you weren't around much in the time of porn dialers were you? They got that reputation for a very good reason.