Victim??

[Guest 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

[Guest Bruce Chambers]

Re: Victim??

 

barney wrote:

> 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?"

 

 

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[Guest Nepatsfan]

Re: Victim??

 

>"barney" <barney@nospam.com> wrote in message

>news:uz6VkCFEJHA.4744@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>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

[Guest VanguardLH]

Re: Victim??

 

barney wrote:

> 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.

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: Victim??

 

>barney wrote:

>> 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?"

 

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

updated.

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf

[Guest Bruce Chambers]

Re: Victim??

 

Thee Chicago Wolf wrote:

>>

>

> 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://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

 

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

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Victim??

 

Bruce Chambers wrote:

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

>> updated.

>>

> 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/2008/08/26/update-to-wga-notifications-for-windows-xp-professional.aspx

--

~PA Bear

[Guest Bruce Chambers]

Re: Victim??

 

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

> Bruce Chambers wrote:

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

>>> updated.

>>>

>> 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/2008/08/26/update-to-wga-notifications-for-windows-xp-professional.aspx

>

 

 

Thanks.

 

--

 

Bruce Chambers

 

Help us help you:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

 

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

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Victim??

 

Bruce Chambers wrote:

> PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

>> Bruce Chambers wrote:

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

>>>> updated.

>>>>

>>> 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/2008/08/26/update-to-wga-notifications-for-windows-xp-professional.aspx

>

> Thanks.

 

YW

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: Victim??

 

>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