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.
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @10:51PM
I have not used dual boot in probably 20 years. It was pretty much a quick way to dork up your computer.
I quickly learned one OS at a time folks. It works for a bit until the next update from either OS. I had linux updates nuke out a windows/os2 install and the other way around.
VMs changed that game. But still one OS at a time as the main OS. HW and VMs is so dead easy and cheap these days there is no reason to dual boot.
Honestly, I had forgotten you could do it.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday August 05 2016, @05:03PM
Since Windows 8, MS even support the hardware clock being set to UTC.
My understanding is that VMs are a pain if you try to use local time.