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COURVO
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 Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject: COUNTERFEIT...!!! |
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YOU HAVE A COUNTERFEIT COPY OF WINDOWS!
...that's what my computer told me a coupla days ago.... I was floored.
I'd been using this same computer as my DAW, and before that as a family computer for the last two years.
Now, alla sudden, I'm counterfeit???!!!
Here's what I found out. Microsoft is blithely promoting it's anti-spamware product "Windows Defender". (It's a free download). Unbeknownst to most, the program also has a little spyware of its own built in.
Turns out, MS is getting more vigilant about software pirates, and "Defender" keeps a lookout for improperly installed, pirated, or otherwise invalid copies of Windows.
Sure enough, I'd had my 'puter serviced at a local shop many months ago, where they'd installed a version of XP Pro that was unauthorized. I took it back, and they made it right at no cost ('got a quieter fan installed too).
If you get this message, your computer -- and Windows -- will continue to run as normal, but none of the automatically downloaded security updates, or ANYTHING supplied as a Windows add-on from MS will not install.
Big Brother is back!
Respectfully,
Dave C.
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Jowillie
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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They must have learned it from Adobe.
Anyone running Audition 2+? |
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Deirdre
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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Gee-- I thought your post was called "Counterfetti".
Little pieces of paper that fall like a snowstorm --they SAY they're made in the USA, but they're really Jakartan in origin.
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COURVO
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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thanks....made minor punctuation changes for better eye digestion
Courvo
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Deirdre
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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COURVO
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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...is there a hidden picture in there of Banksey in a tu-tu?
I've been squinting, but I can't find it.
DC
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Deirdre
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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Dude-- you'll go blind.
There really are more fun ways to do that.
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COURVO
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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funny, I thought that caused deafness..!!!
Hey look, I'm threadjacking my own thread! YAY!
Courv
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mcm
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:38 am Post subject: |
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I want a new title. I haven't jacked a thread in nearly a week.
Mostly because I know that causes blindness too... |
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marko
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:38 am Post subject: |
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I will say that it's getting to where an honest man
can't pirate any decent software anymore. What is
happening to this world? |
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Hart
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anthonyVO
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| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:25 am Post subject: |
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this thread is being trolled by ms
all ip's are being tracked
also, if you forward this thread to any of your buddies, ms will send you a check |
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dhouston67
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| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:38 am Post subject: |
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| mcm wrote: | I want a new title. I haven't jacked a thread in nearly a week.
Mostly because I know that causes blindness too... |
It must, because I think I need new glasses now... did I actually just read that? 
I always thought it afflicted just us lads, and that lassies were exempt...
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