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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
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(Score: 2) by dry on Friday August 05 2016, @05:09AM
I remember installing Win95 on a OS/2 system. At the end of the install it announced that the OS/2 install was now gone, no prior warning or anything. Fired up fdisk, changed the active partition back to bootmanager and booted back to OS/2. Same thing when I tried Win98. Win2k (service pack 3 IIRC) was actually nice enough to tell me how to change the default partition back to bootmanager though I understand that the first couple of releases of Win2k just nuked bootmanager by changing its partition type. Using bootmanager, it was fairly easy to have a multi-boot system, as long as you installed LILO/Grub on your Linux partition, ideally /boot, instead of the MBR.
Now while I was knowledgeable enough to use fdisk to fix the system, how many other people didn't have a backup and lost all their work. Arseholes.