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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: 5, Interesting) by Nerdfest on Thursday August 04 2016, @10:11PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday August 04 2016, @10:11PM (#384282)

    As far as I've been able to tell, for the last 10 years, running Windows in a VM is the only reasonable thing to do if you're interested in stability, privacy, and your time. Need to install updates when you're trying to shut down? Fuck you, roll back to snapshot. Infected by driveby attack while viewing a graphic? Fuck you, roll back to snapshot.

    I'm bretty much at the point that I consider Microsoft a criminal organization.

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  • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Friday August 05 2016, @11:26AM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Friday August 05 2016, @11:26AM (#384451) Homepage Journal

    Doesn't really help if you need to use GPU heavy workloads unless you can pass through a dedicated card (which is a nightmare on the best of days). I'm not talking gaming for this, but more like AutoCAD.

    As it stands, my laptop is anemic enough that I have to dual boot as I simply don't have enough horses to run two OSes reasonably at the same time. Not looking forward to dealing with the anniversay update flatting Debian though.

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