Guest barney Posted September 6, 2008 Posted September 6, 2008 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 Posted September 6, 2008 Posted September 6, 2008 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?" -- 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 Nepatsfan Posted September 6, 2008 Posted September 6, 2008 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 Posted September 6, 2008 Posted September 6, 2008 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 Posted September 7, 2008 Posted September 7, 2008 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 Posted September 7, 2008 Posted September 7, 2008 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] Posted September 7, 2008 Posted September 7, 2008 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 Posted September 7, 2008 Posted September 7, 2008 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] Posted September 7, 2008 Posted September 7, 2008 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 Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 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
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