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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!"
Really, I mean it. From looking at their web site one would have thought they were totally legitimate!
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"
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.
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.
~the keyboard is mightier than the pen.
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!
May we never see th
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?
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