Earthstation 5 Claimed to be Malware

Rob from RPI writes "You may remember the announcement about a company, or program, or both called Earthstation 5 who recently 'Declared War' on the MPAA. Well guess what? Turns out that it's got code in it that allows anyone to delete any file on your computer. I suggest that you un-install as soon as possible!"

Comments

This is absolutely shocking.

[Ygorl]

Really, I mean it. From looking at their web site one would have thought they were totally legitimate!

Earth Station 5 - legalese

[Stalyx]

And in other news when Reuter's contacted Earth Station 5's lead programmer, he had apparently mumbled under his breath.. "its not a bug damnit!, it's a feature"

Not surprising

[skryche]

What about the terrible GUI? That's the real crime here!

Earthstation 5 sounds like...

[vudufixit]

A bad UPN science fiction series.

Dateline "Jenin, West Bank?"

[Anonymous Coward]

Rest assured, brothers, your files have not been deleted; they have been martyred and are currently being serviced by 72 virgins.

Re:Dateline "Jenin, West Bank?"

[LittleGuy]

Rest assured, brothers, your files have not been deleted; they have been martyred and are currently being serviced by 72 virgins.

So, the standard Tech Support staff?

Verify the presence of malware

[Bingo Foo]

$ grep "rm" ~/W4R3Z/es5
Binary file ~/W4R3Z/es5 matches
$

Anagram conspiracy theory

[mblase]

Did you know that you can rearrange the letters of "EARTHSTATION FIVE" to spell "RIAA VOTES IN THEFT"?

They're behind the whole thing, I'm telling you.

Re:Anagram conspiracy theory

[bpd1069]

Did you know that you can rearrange the letters of "EARTHSTATION FIVE" to spell "RIAA VOTES IN THEFT"?


I also found "SEVENTH TIT OF RIAA"

We all know the RIAA is a bitch, but this just proves it...

Re:Good thing it wasn't email

[chicoy]

If I had received this in my Inbox, I probably would have ignored it. It's interesting that I'm conditioned (brainwashed?) to ignore this stuff when it's in an email, but when I read it on /. I take it seriously.

you must be new here.

Earthstation 5 is a GODSEND

[0x0d0a]

People need to stop trashing Earthstation 5. It's a fantastic program, and does exactly as advertised. Plus, it seems to have built-in compression software -- my free disk space has been steadily increasing ever since I installed it!

Oh God not again...

[Theatetus]

Can someone please please PLEASE write a filter that excludes threads that mention the words "Israel" or "Palestine" more than once each?

Here, guys, stop arguing. I'll make all of your arguments for you:

Pro-Palestinian guy: Israel is guilty of $ATROCITY1, $ATROCITY2, and $ATROCITY3

Pro-Israel guy: Surely you're not comparing things like $ATROCITY2 to $ATROCITY4, $ATROCITY5, and $ATROCITY6, which were committed by Palestinians

Pro-Palestinian guy: Oh come on! $ATROCITY6 wasn't nearly as bad as $ATROCITY3! Besides, they only did it because of $ATROCITY3! If Israel had never committed $ATROCITY3 then the Palestinians wouldn't have had to have committed $ATROCITY6!

Pro-Israel guy: but the Israels only committed $ATROCITY3 as a defensive measure because the Palestinians committed $ATROCITY7!

This will continue for about 20 or so posts as both sides try to justify violence because of things that happened 30, 60, 100, or 5000 years ago; apparently in the middle east the moral high ground of a situation is inherited from your parents. I've really never understood that.

Anyways, I've now said EVERY SINGLE THING every partisan in this argument has ever said and will ever say, so you can all just STFU.