14 DAY TRIAL // There are a variety of Build 7601.17514.101119-1850 releases available for download from third-party sources such as BitTorrent trackers, many added after the initial Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) leaked in the wild last week. Build 7601.17514.101119-1850 was reported as the RTM of Windows 7 SP1 by sources close to Microsoft, but the Redmond company has yet to confirm that it is the Gold Build of the upgrade, or that it has indeed reached the release to manufacturing milestone.
This despite an initial confirmation which was quickly retracted, coming from a virtualization blog from Microsoft Russia.
At the time of this article, Wzor has leaked multiple ISO and EXE releases of Windows 7 SP1 RTM Build 7601.17514.101119-1850, including Wave 0 and Wave 1 releases.
Just a reminder Wave 0 releases involve the English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish languages for the service pack.
Wave 1 covers additional localized versions of Windows 7, namely: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese-Hong Kong SAR, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Taiwan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Portuguese-Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
7601.17514.101119-1850_Update_Sp_Wave0-GRMSP1.0_DVD.iso, windows6.1-KB976932-x86-INTL.exe, windows6.1-KB976932-X64-INTL.exe, 7601.17514.101119-1850_Update_Sp_Wave1-GRMSP1.1_DVD.iso, windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe, windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe are among the leaked flavors of Windows 7 SP1 RTM which sources claim come directly from Microsoft.
At the same time I have started seeing a variety of other Builds on torrent sites claiming to be Windows 7 SP1 RTM.
Some of them were in fact slipstreamed using the leaked Build 7601.17514.101119-1850 bits, and offered as ISO images.
Users must be extremely careful with the content they download and install on their machines, especially when it originates from untrusted sources.
There’s no telling what’s really packed into a custom Windows 7 SP1 ISO image put together outside of Redmond, and there’s always the risk that it could contain malicious code.
The best course of action for customers is to wait for Microsoft to offer the real Windows 7 SP1 RTM, which isn’t that far off into the future.