Ant wrote:
Jack of Diamonds wrote:
...
You can get one from the torrents, no product key necessary. You can
even get Windows XP:

https://torrentz2.eu/search?f=window...sional+x64+iso

But how do you know that is a clean copy?

The MSDN ISOs had checksums listed on the Microsoft web site.

I could write a page about the limits of that, but
I'm not going to :-)

What you can do, is compute the various checksums on the
Torrent file you download. Then run the strings of numbers
from the checksum through Google, and see if that number
is a "popular" number.

If you run the checksum string through virustotal, a
certain number of "popular" ISOs have their checksum
entered manually by the virustotal staff. The Virustotal
site has an "upload limit". For official DVDs, they sometimes
manually insert the large DVDs into the virustotal collection.
But there are no guarantees that every language and SKU
of a certain popular title, will be injected that way.
Uploading an entire DVD, would exceed the virustotal upload limit.

Paul