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No use in my retyping the information:
Fake lookalike Microsoft Win 11 Upgrade
This is a new one on me.
From Sysnative: Fake lookalike Microsoft Win 11 Upgrade
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This is a new one on me.
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Probably best to link the source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...e-installers-infect-you-with-redline-malware/
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True, but I tend to link to "where I find it" and if there's a link back to another source, figure if someone's interested, they'll follow it. I don't visit BleepingComputer much anymore and I didn't even bother looking at the source, as I know the person who posted the message at Sysnative to be a reliable reporter.
True, but I tend to link to "where I find it" and if there's a link back to another source, figure if someone's interested, they'll follow it. I don't visit BleepingComputer much anymore and I didn't even bother looking at the source, as I know the person who posted the message at Sysnative to be a reliable reporter.
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@britechguy I'm still angry that Windows 11 can be authorized by a limited user. It doesn't require admin rights to install, just a user to click the do it button in the Windows Update section of the settings menu. Which you can be drug to via notification.
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Didn't know that. And it makes absolutely no sense. Limited users can't install all sorts of things that are far and away more trivial than upgrading a Windows version!
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I didn't either, Microsoft SWEARS it's not the case. But I have 8 Windows 10 Home Asus laptops in the field where the end users have limited accounts, and the admin account has a huge password on it they aren't guessing.
3 of them are running Windows 11 now...
The users reported all they had to do was click the OK button on the notification and off it went. Fortunately, it didn't hurt anything all three systems are happily doing their jobs. But I'd rather they have stayed on Win10 for another six months or so.
Isn't this the source?
Attackers Disguise RedLine Stealer as a Windows 11 Upgrade | HP Wolf Security
Don’t let cyber threats get the best of you. Read our post, Attackers Disguise RedLine Stealer as a Windows 11 Upgrade, to learn more about cyber threats and cyber security.
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There are multiple sources for this information, and, for myself, I care a lot more about the fact that I know about it than exactly where it was initially sourced (when I trust the source from which I obtained it).
I agree. And some articles explain it better than the source article.
It was @Sky-Knight that made a point about linking to the original source, but that link doesn't appear to be the source either.
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I knew about the HP article, and yes that's "original", but the article slug for the Bleeping Computer link was more quickly descriptive. Take your pick I suppose?
OK, I think I get it now. The original link was just a blog post linking to what it called the 'source'. I didn't click on the sysnative link earlier, never heard of it, so clicked on the bleeping 'source' and immediately saw the HP source.
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Yeah, and given the choice of the two I went with the bleeping article because it was quicker to scan and find out what happened. The HP release is much better for real details though.
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