Avoid Those Windows 7 Downloads

Windows 7 is supposed to be the grand successor to Windows XP.

In reality it should be the successor to Vista, but it is obvious that the company and/or the public never really fully committed to the brave new world of Vista and it simply never managed to take off in a big way.

A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced that the XP operating system would not be phased out in January 2009 as they had intended and would be around for several months more, perhaps heralding a lack of confidence in 7 in the same way that Vista has failed to light up the public imagination.

There are already pirate versions of windows 7 doing the rounds in the dark corners of the internet.

App’s vulnerability specialists, Fortify Software, are warning that these pirate versions, which are said to be early build versions, are a high security risk as they could hide all kinds of unpleasant surprises.

According to the company these P2P download versions of “Build 7000” of 7, potentially could be loaded with all manor of spying and malware, denial of service attacks and other unwanted problems.

The company say that it is foolhardy to contemplate installing this downloaded version of 7, as there is no practical way for the majority of users to have any idea what may be hidden deep within the code, placed there by irritating hackers or serious cyber criminals.

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