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MS Promotion Site Flagged By MS Anti-Phishing
Stony Stevenson writes "Microsoft has launched a marketing campaign that lets any student at an Australian university buy the Ultimate edition of Office 2007, usual price $1,150, for only $75 — a discount of about 93%. But when students go to the promotion site, Microsoft Live OneCare pops up a warning that the site may be a phishing scam.
The warning reads: 'Phishing filter has determined this might be a phishing website. We recommend that you do not give any of your information to such websites. Phishing websites impersonate trustworthy websites for the purpose of obtaining your personal or financial information.'"
Its about time....Microsoft has finally recognized itself as evil. Hell has officially frozen over :)
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A Microsoft product that does not work right? The Shock of it... I better unload all my Microsoft stock before the other investors get wind of this! ;)
It's only paranoia if your wrong...
Wow! Live OneCare actually does work!
If any Australian students would like to make a cool 100% profit, please let me know. :)
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It's just part of an overall "bad boy" campaign that MS is using to try to seem cool.
Go ahead and buy from us. IF YOU HAVE THE GUTS.
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This one gave me a belly ache from laughing. Imagine that MS would anti-phish itself. Gee, I wonder where the disconnect happen between product development and marketing. HAHA
That's a tough problem because the easy way to solve it is to add a whitelist to the phishing filter, but that is just asking for security problems (think malware hijacking the whitelist). I guess they will actually just have to make the filter work...
No it doesn't; I've just tried it.
What's purple and commutes? An Abelian grape.
75$AU? Microsoft? Sounds like it really is a phising scam, or it's at least phishy!
"You are attempting to save money! Would you like to allow or deny?"
I have a large company, and it knows exactly what my right hand is doing...
My Australian is rusty.
Give him a good going over with some wire wool and light oil, that should fix him right up!
Im using IE7 and wow! It is teh smartest!!
Is this a fishing site??? Cause IE knows and I knows!! Thats awesome!
Wonder if you can find what lures work with what on IE7?
Let's think about the wonderful "free marketplace" and those supposedly immutable laws of supply and demand.
Is there an abundance of Office 2007 licenses in Australia that is causing this price drop or is demand so low that Microsoft has to practically give its products away there to move them off the shelves?
If this isn't clear evidence that companies like Microsoft are no more interested in anything like a "free market" than your average Republican congressman, I don't know what is. The only thing that's free is these corporations' desire and ability to fuck us over.
We are being played, friends.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Slashdot would implode with rage
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Slightly off topic, but can we motion to come up with a new 'M$' logo?
1. The guy is barely involved within the company anymore.
2. Bill Gates has started a profoundly large charity foundation
3. Someone could make some downright hilarious steve ballmer cyborg icons with minimal effort.
Am I the only one feeling this?
> We're being played
Microsoft has ALWAYS had student/academic and non-profit deals out there. Look in any University bookstore at very good prices. You don't even have to do that with a student ID card. You can just declare you're a student and buy it online. This is a particularly good deal, but the fact is, I've never paid over $60.00 for a full office suite ever, because Microsoft sells to schools and libraries at a heavy discount.
How about a moderation of -1 pedantic.
It's not like anyone would report the site as a phishing scam for cheap laughs.
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I don't think that needs comment.
(PS: The original text cited is in all caps, which set off Slashdot's "Lameness filter". Define irony)
According to TFA, the deal is for students of AU universities with volume licences. In the education volume liscences I have seen, the liscence extends to the students. Which means the school just burns the student a copy. For nothing (or for a materials fee). The school already paid for the student to have it. Why would the student fork out additional money to MS?
Now all we need is for Norton AntiVirus to detect itself as a virus and everything will be all set.
It's probably just a way to reduces losses which Microsoft might incur as a result of this huge discount.
losses... lol
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Actually it does have an Australian to English converter. I'm not too sure what good that would do a Yank though.
I think it must be broken. I keep putting in Fosters but I don't get back beer.
And in the English to Australian converter, I keep putting in coffee but I still don't get back beer.
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Dang, am I the only one to laugh at this? I just shot some beer out my nose.
You, sir, owe me one beer!
General, you are listening to a machine! Do the world a favor and don't act like one.
I think it must be broken. I keep putting in Fosters but I don't get back beer.
There's a simple answer, Fosters isn't beer. We just export that swill, no one here actually drinks it.
What's purple and commutes? An Abelian grape.
Quote>What kind of paperwork is needed for my company to be recognized as a "university" It would need to be accredited.
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is for Windows Defender in Vista to stuff up and flag IE7 as spyware. That would be most amusing. :)
No jabbing at MS intended. Something like this *should* generate more false positives than false negatives, because the cost to the user from a false positive is less than a false negative. Further, it shows that they aren't playing favourites, they've been caught in the same net anyone else might.
A $1200 product being sold for $75 is probably either a) not a $1200 product, or b) a scam, so this seems to have worked well. Special academic discounts are a fringe case.
the Microsoft Anti-Phishing filter fails to find web sites selling OEM versions of Microsoft's software if the user makes a typo in the URL to any of the Microsoft web sites. Offering Office 2007 Ultimate edition for $50, Vista Ultimate for $65, and other discounts on so called OEM software that is really pirated versions of Microsoft software and the personal information is sold and used for identity theft so the buyer gets burned twice.
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
This deal is so good, even we can't believe it's for real! Order yours today! OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY!
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No one out there really seems to get it. Fosters - goes in the same category with Rolf Harris, Steve Irwin (god bless him) and Crocodile Dundee:
Shit we foist on other people.
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Am I the only one who wishes that MS named their product the Phishing Philter?
You're using Vista's speech recognition, right?
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If a "small and startup company" is using MSDN subscriptions on their desktops, they're violating their EULA.
Do you think you'll be able to get academic pricing of Office 2007 Ultimate Edition for $60? Or Vista for $10? Think again.
I had lunch with someone who does purchasing for a major University the other day and he's saying that MS isn't going that route this time. There will still be academic licensing, but it won't be anything like it's been in the past.
And my comments above aren't even directed only at Microsoft. They're just playing a game that's SOP in all of business these days. Put your customers in an impossible position, squeeze everything you can out of them while giving them less and less, repeat when necessary to your stock price. MS does it, Apple does it, Sony does it, Dell, HP. Name your company. Name your industry. Transportation, energy, telecommunications, financial. Media.
I repeat: The "Free Market" was always a fantasy - bait and switch where they don't even have to use bait. We are the consumables now.
You are welcome on my lawn.
They probably left in in the anti-phishing filter deliberately. Irony generates news, and news generate truckloads of free exposure.
"Any publicity is good publicity, as long as they spell my name right"
We all think it's ironic that MS software blocks an MS promotion campaign. We generated a truckload of comments laughing our asses off.
The REAL irony that escapes us is that we gentoo- and ubuntu- running geeks all talk about it, laugh about it, tell our friends, family and collegues in the office about it, and get the word out to a lot of people, a decent percentage of which (who have student IDs in AU and/or access to someone with such) will hear "blah blah office 2k7 ultimate for 75A$ blah blah microsoft blooper blah". And guess what those of them who use office and can do the math will do then.
Thus, thanks to us slashdot crowd, myself being a gentoo-desktop-running Aussie student (who also runs Windows on some of his machines) who is neither religious about being anti-microsoft nor thinks they do not deserve a sane amount of money for a software suite I wish to use, I promptly went out and paid microsoft 75$. Good'on'em.
And looking back at our beloved slashdot crowd, I think that I, for one, welcome our new microsoft-promoting slashdotter overlords.
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That's one helluva nose.
Information wants to be free.
Entertainment wants to be paid.
You just want to be cheap.
...doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Back when I worked for an ISP a few years ago, we received a threatening letter from EBay demaning the immediate disconnection of one of our customers for running a phishing site. And better speed it up, because they'd already reported it to the FBI as well. Of course, we pointed out to ebay that the site in question was actually one of their own subsidiaries. (they had links to it from all over the place on the main ebay.com website, even). Sure we can cut it off, but I really don't think you'd want us to. By the way, might want to call the FBI back to tell them "never mind", while you're at it. *sigh*
Even if it says imported it might not be imported from where you think. Some European beers sold in Canada are brewed in USA and vice versa so they can label them as imported. The way the British modified beer to last longer was increase the alcohol and hops. India Pale Ale still is high in hops but not alcohol.
It looks like a phishing site to me. Some weird company called Microblast or something is trying to create an expensive proprietary rip-off of OpenOffice.org. It probably comes with all kinds of spyware, too.
The chaser http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/ is actually humour to be enjoyed. I know Chris and Julian personally and tehy are really funny guys. Julian got arrested for streaking through a streakers trial, you can't get much funnier than that. Also for anyone who doesn't know what I'm on about most of the episodes are available freely from the site I linked.