Pirated Software

[Anonymous]

I seem to be getting lots of messages offering pirated software. Some
Microsoft software is sold for $20. As I do not wish to buy anymore
software is there anything I can do to stop these messages? Can
Microsoft pursue these people selling their software so cheaply without
benefitting it?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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|I seem to be getting lots of messages offering pirated software. Some
| Microsoft software is sold for $20. As I do not wish to buy anymore
| software is there anything I can do to stop these messages? Can
| Microsoft pursue these people selling their software so cheaply without
| benefitting it?

 

[*Vanguard*]

Anonymous said in news:[email protected]:

I seem to be getting lots of messages offering pirated software. Some
Microsoft software is sold for $20. As I do not wish to buy anymore
software ...

This could easily be read as "I'm done buying pirated software and now
that I don't want anymore then I'll pretend to be honest and report the
rest." Might not be want you meant but that's how it came across.

is there anything I can do to stop these messages? Can
Microsoft pursue these people selling their software so cheaply
without benefitting it?

http://www.microsoft.com/piracy

Report it! But then if you interrogated the headers, those scam e-mails
are probably from offshore. Since this is spam, have you even looked at
what anti-spam solutions are available to you? I have Norton Internet
Security which includes its SpamAlert but I don't consider it very
effective. Instead I also use SpamPal along with several of its
plug-ins (all free without being bannerware, crippleware, demoware,
adware, or an otherwise crapware styled product).