Buzz Out Loud Lounge: RE: Microsoft Piracy False Positives
RE: Microsoft Piracy False Positives
by ryanknapper - 1/25/07 12:24 PMI believe Tom said that Microsoft claims 1% of Windows installations are falsely accused of being illegitimate. I thought that they said 1% of the installations they flagged as illegal were falsely accused.
That's a much smaller number than what Tom and Molly were discussing.
Either Way
by Renegade Knight - 1/25/07 12:28 PM In reply to: RE: Microsoft Piracy False Positives by ryanknapperEither Way a lot of people can't use something they paid for. It should be as simple as if I bought it, I own it and can use it. Without a need to waste my time and prove that I have the right.
This is why I quit using Symantec products. They flagged me, and I called. Their solution was for me to send in my Disk, My Reciept, and anything else related. Notice the solution left me with ZERO of what I paid for. No software, No protection. Now I have No Interest in them.
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by Special(e) - 1/25/07 1:51 PM In reply to: RE: Microsoft Piracy False Positives by ryanknapperWell i recall a number of 20% of the installs are flagged and that of that 20%, 1% are false positives. I'm sure he doesn't just pull those numbers out of his butt.
Even if he was wrong though, 1 percent of 5,000,000 is still too many in my opinion.
My small discovery. Spyware damage.
by R. Proffitt
- 1/25/07 2:42 PM
In reply to: RE: Microsoft Piracy False Positives by ryanknapper
After a few encounters with this issue I think I found one cause of the failures. Spyware damage. The owner that allowed me to test their setup found WGA to work just fine after I ejected all the spyware and ran a repair install of the OS.
-> Think about how XP SP2 installs failed spectacularly if spyware was on the machine.
Seems WGA expected a clean machine.
Bob
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