Victim??

[barney]

I started to get a little star today on my task bar saying "You may be a victim of software counterfeiting". My operating system and all MS programs were legally installed when I bought the Sony computer in January, 2006. Does anyone know how to fix this problem. Any help would be appreciated.

TIA, barney

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I started to get a little star today on my task bar saying "You may be a victim of software counterfeiting". My operating system and all MS programs were legally installed when I bought the Sony computer in January, 2006. Does anyone know how to fix this problem. Any help would be appreciated.

TIA, barney

Perhaps you should direct this query to the makers of whatever
application is producing this "little star?"


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[Nepatsfan]

I started to get a little star today on my task bar saying "You may be a victim
of software counterfeiting". My >operating system and all MS programs were
legally installed when I bought the Sony computer in January, 2006. >Does
anyone know how to fix this problem. Any help would be appreciated.

TIA, barney

Go to this web site and click on the Validate Windows button on the right hand
side of this web page.

http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/

If that doesn't fix the problem download and run the Microsoft Genuine Advantage
Diagnostic Tool.

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=56062

Hit the Copy button on the General page. Post a question to the forum listed
below. Paste the results obtained with the tool in the body of your question.

Windows XP Genuine Advantage Validation Issues
http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/genuinewindowsxp/threads/

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[VanguardLH]

I started to get a little star today on my task bar saying "You may be ...

<overly long line truncated at 76 characters (ellipsis added)>

As noted in your disconnected MULTIpost in another newsgroup, you're
infected. Follow the instructions presented in the other newsgroup.

Do not use quoted-printable format when posting to Usenet.

Learn to cross-post:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

A point not made is that N multiposted copies will consume N times the
disk space for each of the separate copies of the same post.
Crossposted messages have just *one* copy on the server with links in
the newsgroups back to the same single copy. Multiposting wastes disk
space on the server. Yes, your post may be small but remember that you
consume N times the space on one server and then do so again on all the
newsgroups servers worldwide. You waste more bandwidth getting N copies
of your multiposted message distributed to all the newsgroups servers
worldwide. Cross-posting has just one copy of the message on an NNTP
server, and only one copy gets propagated to other NNTP servers.

To those visiting the newsgroups, crossposting helps them see ALL the
replies from those in the other RELATED newsgroup to which you linked
your post. That way, they don't waste their time duplicating similar
replies.

Don't cross-post to more groups than needed if at all. Many consider
cross-posting to more than 4 groups as rude and may filter out your
post. The more groups you add, the less likely that they are related,
the less accurate or focused are the targeted groups, or some of the
included groups may already encompassed by another included but more
general group. If the are subgroups under a topic, choose whether you
will be specific or general in the targeted groups to which you post.
Don't go shotgunning your post across multiple groups trying to capture
as large an audience as possible as you will offend netizens with your
poor aim.

 

[Thee Chicago Wolf]

Perhaps you should direct this query to the makers of whatever
application is producing this "little star?"

That "little star" is the WGA tray icon from Microsoft that was just
updated.

- Thee Chicago Wolf

 

[Alias]

That "little star" is the WGA tray icon from Microsoft that was just
updated.

- Thee Chicago Wolf

Yep, another case of a false positive from WGA which is why I tell Auto
Updates thanks, but no thanks, as WGA benefits nobody but Microsoft.

Alias

 

[Bruce Chambers]

That "little star" is the WGA tray icon from Microsoft that was just
updated.

- Thee Chicago Wolf

I see. Thanks.

Color me out-dated. Haven't used a WinXP machine (outside a firewalled
corporate environment) for over a year now, so I wasn't aware of the
change. Was that somethiong that came with SP3, or was it a separate
change?


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

I see. Thanks.

Color me out-dated. Haven't used a WinXP machine (outside a firewalled
corporate environment) for over a year now, so I wasn't aware of the
change. Was that somethiong that came with SP3, or was it a separate
change?

See
http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/2...otifications-for-windows-xp-professional.aspx

 

[Bruce Chambers]

See
http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/2...otifications-for-windows-xp-professional.aspx

Thanks.

--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Thanks.

YW

 

[Thee Chicago Wolf]

Yep, another case of a false positive from WGA which is why I tell Auto

Updates thanks, but no thanks, as WGA benefits nobody but Microsoft.

Alias

Yes, it's possible. The buzz on news sits and a few blogs is that some
major rework of the WGA checker went into this recent update to thwart
the remaining invalid and hacked versions out there. What can you do,
it's the shotgun approach.

- Thee Chicago Wolf