Some high-selling merchants sell pirated Microsoft windows7 pirates to profit

Yesterday, the reporter found on the 3rd floor of Hangzhou Gaogao Flagship Plaza that some merchants selling computer accessories are selling pirated CDs of Microsoft's new operating system windows7, priced between 10-20 yuan. According to industry sources, pirates have implanted viruses in pirated CDs to obtain greater profits at a lower price.

Microsoft's anti-piracy system is in vain

Microsoft's new operating system Windows 7 (Win7 for short) has been on the market for more than a month, although the lowest price is 399 yuan, but pirated win7 still appears in the market appear. The Commercial Daily reporter recently visited the main IT stores in Hangzhou West, and found that the pirated win7 CD is easy to buy.

In the 3rd floor of the flagship plaza, selling the ink cartridges, burning discs and other computer accessories, as long as you ask, the boss will immediately take out the pirated disc from the back of the counter, or open the back door, let Consumers go in and pick enough.

At present, several major computer stores in the west of the city sell a total of four versions of the win7 pirated CD: both the GHOST clone installation version, the unattended automatic installation CD, and the manual installation of the pure version, both It is a DVD9 media, priced at 10 yuan, and the fourth is a DVD5 system CD plus a CD crack CD, priced at 20 yuan.

Microsoft has emphasized that Win7's anti-piracy technology (Windows activation technology) and WGA genuine verification program, Win7 anti-piracy technology is "unbreakable."

"Absolutely can be cracked, you can rest assured that we sold a lot, and no one came back." A boss named Lin said that the Win7 pirated CD with Ghost installation method does not require the user to manually activate the system. After installing the Win7 clone to the hard disk, the system properties will show that Win7 is active.

The reporter asked the boss to demonstrate it on the spot and found that the pirated disc could be used. With the pirated win7 with cracked CD, after the system is manually installed, the activation mechanism of Win7 has not been cracked, prompting the user to have a 30-day activation period. Then the boss follows the instructions for cracking the Win7 activation technology and uses another crack in the cracked CD. The patch was successfully cracked, and Win7 showed the activation status after the computer restarted.

A lot of viruses, pirates profit from it

"In fact, you don't know, pirated win7 brings a lot of viruses." 颐高数码广场 specializes in compatible computer Xiaoliu specially tested and found win7 The pirated CD comes with many viruses, mainly gray pigeon virus (the computer will be completely controlled by the hacker after poisoning), "Generic StartPage" virus (modification of the browser start page Trojan, you can use the browser's vulnerability to replace the user's browser The start page allows the user to frequently open the ad page), the W32 worm (which makes the operating system slower and makes some anti-virus software not update properly).

Xiaoliu said that the latter two viruses are a little more, many of which are viruses implanted by pirates when they make pirated CDs. These viruses are not harmful, but they give pirates a greater commercial interest.

"You will find that the browser homepage after installing win7 has been tampered with into a commercial website." Xiaoliu said that in addition to viruses, pirates also preset a variety of commercial software, from input methods and media. The player, to the downloader, the desktop theme package.

"Why do you think that pirates spend so much effort to crack win7, and the price of pirated discs is the same as that of green radish? Without the greater interest behind it, who would do stupid things?" Xiaoliu said. Whether tampering with the IE browser homepage or pre-setting various commercial software, every time a user opens these advertisement pages and installs a commercial software, the pirate may know the user's usage from the trojan program, and these commercial websites will give The lucrative profits of pirates, it is also possible that these websites are themselves pirated. "

Xiaoliu took out the pirated CD he had tested, and the cover was printed with "Lenovo", "HP", "Tomato Garden", "Rainforest Woodwind" and other signs.

The scary thing is that 75% of the Win7 pirated discs contain viruses after the test. After installing these virus-containing Win7 operating systems, the anti-virus software can't find the virus hidden in the Win7 pirated CD.

Earlier, Microsoft According to the information provided by the public relations department, Win7's anti-piracy is only an activation technology, which allows users to have a 30-day activation grace period, but users only need to run a crack program to activate Win7, pirate Win7 installed through Ghost or even There is no need to manually crack. Microsoft said that there is no updated method to deal with piracy, and that identification and piracy are only based on a "genuine label" on the box.