[pchelpers] Re: Microsof bug?

Billy,
  In a Zacks news email I noticed today that MS has some kind of a new
sniffer program that sniff out bootlegged MS software on a system that
requests updates, I did not save the message.,  & do not know if there is
any connection. The news today did mention someting about the biggest haul
of illegl MS Software ever,  was confiscated today and a legal Taiwan
immigrant was arrested.  The haul contained all kinds of software and well
as "legit" codes.
    Cy

On 4/26/06, Billyus Eximius <billy.e@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I got a strange query today. Woman had aPC built privately and it has XP
> pro on it and today she got an update request and so she did just as she has
> for the past 18 months. This time however, it informs her that she may have
> an illegal copy and no further updates are available.  Now she isn't worried
> about whether it is legal or not, it works and she paid to have the PC
> built. what she is concerned about is the pop up every tine she boots
> telling her she may have an illegal copy. She wants to know how she rids
> herself of it. She went into add/remove programs and deleted the relevant
> things from the reg, but the warning came up and told her that the pop up
> would still work.  She's ran A2d and Addaware etc. So how does she get rid
> of this annoyance?
> Billy
>
>
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