counterfeit software message - RESOLVED
- From: wayne.edmonds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 31 May 2006 08:43:40 -0700
If anyone (like me) suddenly started to receive "You may be a victim of
software counterfeiting. This copy of Windows is not genuine and is
not eligible to receive all updates and product support from
Microsoft" i now know the reason.
I started to receive this message on an Enterprise version of Windows
XP pro. I had around 5 machines encounter this message for no reason
and a further 100+ machines on a network which were using the same
serial number.
This was caused by the Genuine Advantage Tool KB905474. On updating
our Windows XP Pro machines around 2 weeks ago with this tool direct
from MS website we started to receive the error message. On the 30th
May (yesterday) a new update was published by MS which appeared to
resolve the problem.
On contacting MS i have now had confirmation of this and admision from
MS that the problem was theirs.
Hope this helps some people out.
Nice one MS..... (again)
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