[WIN7] Upgrading to Win10 - a basic guide

sketchy install to be honest; which I've spent the past half hour cleaning up, see photo below. It was adding chrome extensions, opera browser and avast. it wouldnt complete without AV off and connected to the internet, hardly any control using the program even in expert mode. I'm not sure what went on... edit, and wouldn't run in safe mode with networking.

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If it quacks like a duck?

 

fek, nuke it from space

 

my thoughts exactly. NET framework installs that have different logos? pretty sketchy - all gone now though...

 

It doesn't do any of that. I'm not going to get into an argument with you here, but there's plenty of people who use it.
And I just ran a malwarebytes scan over the entire snappy folder, including all the 15GB of downloaded drivers - no malware. Whatever you got is the result of something else you've been doing.

 

I've seen at least two instances where the DNS sent a system to a dodgy site, and a different product was downloaded.

I couldn't tell if this was local malware or a targeted DNS attack, but it appears to me that there is something odd going on.

I don't think it's the SDI team. I think it's someone else trying to piggy back off their success via a DNS attack.

Was easy enough to spot as I was familiar with the original tool. But the people affected were new to it, and got hit.

 

Interesting - might inform the team about that-

 

So I used the SDI installer should there be something I should be doing to protect myself or is it to late ??

 

I think of you're making it to the legitimate site and grabbing the right code, you're fine. I use SDI myself, no problems.

I suspect the couple of systems I saw had problems before they hit the site, and that the redirect was a sign of something else going wrong. I didn't have time to investigate those in depth.

 

cheers thanks for putting my mind at rest

 

Can I still use this method of install on a new computer as I have Win7-64 Pro disk , just want to avoid having to by Win 10 Pro

 

Having the disc doesn't really help, you need your Windows 7 key, which you can probably grab from your old machine if you're no longer using it, via Produkey or MagicalJellybean.
Then do clean install ie. method 1.

 

i actually upgraded old machine to win 10 , but still the same key ??

 

Yes, it's still free to upgrade any windows 7 machine to win 10 using the same win 7 key

 

Thank you guys

 

Unfortunately after using method 1 my win10 pro is not activated , It accepted the key I entered for the install and installed ok but now I am getting not activated message.

Any ideas what I can do ??

 

Control Panel\System and Security\System

*Change product key*

Enter key again while connected to internet

 

Try again as mentioned above. Then perhaps ring MS and say you have a valid upgrade path.

 

Just wondering in my Microsoft account, in Devices it lists my old System would it make any any difference if I removed this unused one from the list ??