According to Tripp Cox, VP of engineering at security firm Damballa, a pirated version of Windows 7 Release Candidate is infected with a Trojan horse which has created a botnet with tens of thousands of bots under its control.
Apprantly the software is primarily designed to download and install malicious packages under a “pay-per-install” scheme.
The legitimate version of Windows 7 RC from Microsoft’s Web site
It’s free.
