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How Asus Recovery Disks Ended Up Carrying Software Cracks

Posted by timothy on from the nice-thing-about-free-software-is-no-cracks dept.

Anthony_Cargile writes "We all now know about Asus shipping illegal software cracks and confidential documents/source code on their recovery DVD (and in the system root), but this article tells exactly how it happened. It's even more careless than you think, and most likely an accident."

2 of 241 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Crack vs. Foss by htnprm · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ummm...No. Sorry. 7-zip's interface is crap.

  2. Re:Crack vs. Foss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Try explainig 7-zip versus winrar to a client:

    7-zip: "Oh, but if you click extract, it only extracts the default highlighted file or folder. Press CTRL-A first, but also remember to unselect the parent reference line. Remember to tell it where to extract to, or just look in my documents for a folder named the same as the first file in the list. It may also be named any random selection of file name depending on which one you highlighted first."

    winrar: "Click extract and then okay. Close the program. Look for a folder called the name of the file you double-clicked on."