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Ubuntu Linux Validates As Genuine Windows

Posted by kdawson on from the it-was-the-wine-talking dept.

bobbocanfly writes "Another crack in the Windows Genuine Advantage wall. A user at UbuntuForums.org managed to validate an Ubuntu installation as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows and get to the download page of Windows Defender, using IE4Linux and Wine. (Here is an OGG video of the process.) Along with the advancement of LiveCD technology, this could spell the end of Microsoft's control over who gets their updates."

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  1. Re:And what would happen then? by jlarocco · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Showing that 99.99% of the zombies out there are Windows machines ... well, you get the idea. Bringing it up to 99.999% would be even worse.

    More like 100% of zombie machines run Windows. As far as I can tell, it's a Windows only problem.

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    Maybe not