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 Friday August 05 2016, @05:17PM
"Dear customer, we at m$ are hard at work making your new 1'000.- dollar VR ready rig crawl to a stand still with our new security updates that will make your experience more secure. Thanks to our pervasive telemetry will will also be able to target just-released 2000.- dollar intel chips and their chips-sets before they become affordable for the mainstream.
count on slow stuttery but secure(!) VR experience thanks to the tireless brainstorming in ms-idea lab on how to squeeze the most money out of your pocket for us and our partners!
have another nice *snicker* day (fiddling with your computer instead of getting work done)!"