Re: Activation period Expired

"Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*o*m> wrote in message

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>> I made no comment about the program itself. I don't know if it works and
>> I
>> said just that.
>>
>> I wanted to warn people about the danger of going to some of the sites
> that
>> showed up in a google search for it. A lot of the people on this
>> newsgroup
>> are not very technically savvy. As you say, if you know what you are
>> doing
>> you are relatively safe. Unfortunately at lot of people don't know what
> they
>> are doing. Are computers for the elite only? If someone is going to make
>> a
>> public post that could cause harm to someone's computer they should post
>> a
>> warning with it. Two of the sites actively attacked my computer, scanning
>> ports, popups trying to entice me to run exe files, trying known IE
>> exploits, even trying the mozilla IDN exploit. They were not friendly
> sites.
>>
>> Kerry
>>
>>
>
> Agreed. Anytime anyone seeks to openly search for something illegal or
> immoral on the internet risks what you describe. The risk is much higher
> in
> this category, as opposed to something legitimate. Typical are windows
> product keys, activation kill programs, entire movies, and nudity. A safe
> site should have been provided, even if its not legit software. But, the
> reason for not mentioning the site location is self-explanatory to most.
> So, here we are. Your warning will probably go unheeded by many poorly
> protected PC users.
>
>

While we agree on the warning it seems you are also assuming that I think it
is illegal or immoral to use programs like WPA_Kill.exe. Personally I won't
use them for the simple fact that I believe sooner or later you will be cut
off from updates if you use a hacked copy of Windows. I make no moral
judgement about others that use this or any other method to get around
activation. My belief is that you own your copy of Windows. If you don't
want to activate it for some reason that is your business. I know of some
people that believe Microsoft uses activations to collect data about the
installed base of computers and don't want to participate. Right or wrong
they have the right to that belief. If it is a pirate copy of Windows then
that is a different story and the use of the pirated Windows software is
illegal. The use of WPA_Kill.exe is not.

Kerry


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