With Microsoft announce the new Windows 11 operating system, you might be eager to update your PC.
However, before you click the Install button, the biggest error you can do is not verify the source of Windows 11 update.
Cybersecury company Kaspersky is warning users about the existence of fake Windows 11 downloads that can infect your computer with malicious software.
Windows 11 will be officially available for all public later this year but if you want you can install Build Prerelease to try Windows 11.
It’s easy enough to get a new Windows 11 Prerelease Build and all you need to do is visit Windows 11 official website Microsoft and download it from there.
After saying that, many users try to download Windows 11 from third-party sources.
Kaspersky claims to have “beat several hundred efforts”.
Most of these threats consist of downloaders, whose duties are downloading and running other programs.
What is the risk of the main reason for choosing third-party downloaders can be your computer too old to support Windows 11 officially or you might not have a stable internet connection.
Your PC may be infected by “relatively harmless adware, to full trojans, password thieves, exploitation,” Kaspersky’s warned.
“The easiest way of cybercriminal to thin the user is slipping in something extra (or another).
Overall it involves an executable file called 86307_Windows 11 Build 21996.1 x64 + Activator.exe.
With a file size of 1.75GB, of course visible It makes sense.
In fact, though, most of the space consists of one file etc.
which contains a lot of useless information, “he added.
How to download Windows 11 safely at PCAS Your final release Windows 11 has not come out, it is highly recommended that you get the Prerelease Build on a backup computer and not your main system.
This is because Windows 11 Prerelease Build can be very unstable.
To download Windows 11 safely, you need to register for Windows Insider.
In addition, you will need a PC with Windows 10.
To update, open settings, click Update & Security, then select the Windows Insider program and activate the Dev channel to get an update.