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Comment by rasz_pl | Hacker News Reader

Microsoft already kinda went open source, unintentionally :) http://www.opennt.net/

interesting thread documenting start of OpenNT project http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=33250 from broken code base that would not compile to booting ~Windows 2003 compiled from source.

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Avast gives me a Win32Evo Trojan warning when downloading NT 4.5 binary or ISO images. Is it a false positive or did they accidentally introduce a Trojan into the code?

Anyway Avast won't let me download NT 4.5 due to a Trojan warning. So I can't test it out unless I disabled my AV.

Edit: Why the downvote, scan it with Avast yourself if you don't believe me. I refuse to use it unless it is verified to not have a Trojan. Even if it might be a false positive.

Antiviruses are useless and you probably shouldn't be using one in 2015. Run the ISO in a VM if you don't trust it. (I didn't downvote you.)

They do this for "cracks" and "warez". I have a remote desktop licensing reset program and it flags it as a virus when it isn't.

oh, you might want to brush up on state of the art in security practices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z7L498dNB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzC8jJ0ESJ0

its trivial to bypass every single scanner on the market, at this point they are all snake oil

The NT 4.0 source code leak was in 1999 or so. How did it take so long for a compilation project to get underway?

I wouldn't go anywhere near that. Not worth getting legally tainted.

What's the license of that?

The license seems to be "very illegal", as this is a fork of the NT4 source code leak.

Interesting, I didn't know about OpenNT. Do you happen to know why they based it on the leaded NT4 source instead of the leaked win2k one?

The leaked win2k was very incomplete.

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