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posted by janrinok on Thursday August 04 2016, @06:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the gonna-party-like-it's-1989 dept.

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

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:41PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:41PM (#384226)

    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)

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