Service Pack 4Free - Windows 2000 Professional

[Guest]

When booting into Safe Mode on a Windows 2000 Professional box I see "Service
Pack 4Free" at the top of the screen - something I haven't noticed on other
boxes.

Is this service pack legitimate? I would assume it is, except that I'm
cleaning spyware and viruses off the machine now, so I'm suspicious.

 

[Maximus the mad]

arcking aka (e-mail address removed),after much thought,came
up with this jewel:

When booting into Safe Mode on a Windows 2000 Professional box I see
"Service Pack 4Free" at the top of the screen - something I haven't
noticed on other boxes.

Is this service pack legitimate?
yes

I would assume it is, except that
I'm cleaning spyware and viruses off the machine now, so I'm
suspicious.

I have written some pages that might be of some help(see below)

max
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My Pages:
Virus Removal Instructions:
http://www.freespaces.com/maxwachtel/removal.html
Keeping Windows Clean:
http://www.freespaces.com/maxwachtel/keepingclean.html
Tools: http://www.freespaces.com/maxwachtel/tools.html
Change nomail.afraid.org to gmail.com to reply. nomail.afraid.org is
specifically setup for USENET.Feel free to use it yourself.
Always remember - only download files from Trusted Sites.

 

[John John]

No. That is not legitimate Microsoft Windows 2000 Modus Operandi.
Never ever have I seen SPAM running in legitimate clean Windows 2000
installations, let alone clean installations that boot to Safe-Mode!

Maybe you have installed the so called SP5 on your computer.

John

 

[Maximus the mad]

John John aka (e-mail address removed),after much thought,came up with
this jewel:

No. That is not legitimate Microsoft Windows 2000 Modus Operandi.
Never ever have I seen SPAM running in legitimate clean Windows 2000
installations, let alone clean installations that boot to Safe-Mode!

Maybe you have installed the so called SP5 on your computer.

I have a w2k sp4 that was provided by the university I attended and it
has the 4free displayed during safe-mode.

John

max
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My Pages:
Virus Removal Instructions:
http://www.freespaces.com/maxwachtel/removal.html
Keeping Windows Clean:
http://www.freespaces.com/maxwachtel/keepingclean.html
Tools: http://www.freespaces.com/maxwachtel/tools.html
Change nomail.afraid.org to gmail.com to reply. nomail.afraid.org is
specifically setup for USENET.Feel free to use it yourself.
Always remember - only download files from Trusted Sites.

 

[John John]

John John aka (e-mail address removed),after much thought,came up with
this jewel:




I have a w2k sp4 that was provided by the university I attended and it
has the 4free displayed during safe-mode.

I should have booted in safe-mode and verivied instead of jumping to
conclusions. My machine shows the same thing and my service pack was
downloaded from Microsoft, it's legit.

John

 

[Sid Elbow]

When booting into Safe Mode on a Windows 2000 Professional box I see "Service
Pack 4Free" at the top of the screen - something I haven't noticed on other
boxes.

Kind of begs the question of what you get extra in "Service Pack
4YouPayForIt"

 

[Guest]

Thank you all for your help - I'm glad its legit!

 

[Colon Terminus]

Thank you all for your help - I'm glad its legit!

"Free" is Microsoft's way of stating that the installed O/S doesn't contain
debuging code.