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Asus Ships Cracking Software On Recovery DVD

Posted by timothy on from the cold-sweat-in-taiwan dept.

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."

2 of 263 comments (clear)

  1. Software crackers... by kokho · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn... what happened to the good ol' days when people used to eat real crackers...

  2. Re:Rule #1: If you learn something, don't tell any by pak9rabid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (sheeet! in Eubonics_Jive)

    I believe the correct spelling is shyyyyyyaat!