Asus Ships Cracking Software On Recovery DVD

Barence writes "Asus is accidentally shipping software crackers and confidential documents on the recovery DVDs that come with its laptops. The startling discovery was made by a PC Pro reader whose antivirus software was triggered by a key cracker for the WinRAR compression software, which was located on the recovery DVD for his Asus laptop. Along with the key cracker the disc also contained confidential Asus documents including a PowerPoint presentation that details 'major problems' identified by the company, including application compatibility issues. The UK reader is not alone, either — several users in the US and Australia have also found suspicious files on Asus discs."

Comments

Re:Cracking WinRAR is lame

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the tool is actually for extracting the passwords for any protected archives created with the WinRAR application...

Re:WinRAR

[morgan_greywolf]

Which, for the benefit of those who have never used 7-Zip, fully supports unpacking RAR archives out of the box without having to have unrar or WinRAR at all.

Now if you want to make RAR files, then you'll need rar or WinRAR. But also you should note that 7-Zip's native 7z format gets rather better compression than RAR. ;)

Re:Someone Is Getting Fired

[Skrynesaver]

It was in the wav files used in the XP tour introduction thinghy

LISTB INFOICRD 2000-04-06 IENG Deepz0ne ISFT Sound Forge 4.5

Was present in the files, a sign that a pirated version of Sound Forge from Deepz0ne of the Radium warez crew.

Because they're BSA members, of course.

[Xenographic]

I know you're joking, but for anyone who doesn't get the joke, Microsoft is a BSA member.

They only terrorize small businesses.