Setting up a new ISP, router, and using IPv6 for the first time, pasted in one IPv6 number hoping it was the router address, it was my IP address - Google picked it up and showed all of my/. post as the only hit.
It was disturbing in a way, but did show how good search engines have gotten.
Windows 10 fits more criteria for "malware" than the most well-known malware suites do. Forcefully installs itself? Check. Spies on you? Check. Displays ads to you? Check. Uninstalls competitors' programs? Check. Doles out your security keys to people on your contact list? Check.
It's one step away from literally being ransomware.
I consider it ransomware, more so when the computer is locked to that OS and it can't be changed.
is being scrubbed out of existence and re-reasoned, as it would truly be scoffed at.
I've looked for links to what I know so if I ever brought it up I had a citation, yet to no avail. My only source is a National Geographic two cartridge VHS set titled ISLAM that I checked out of the library many years ago. The title might be different I just remember that the word ISLAM was in large bold letters, and how I read it's title, (inside ISLAM?)...
I won't post the story without any available backup source (the cleansing is working). Only that it's worn so the bad angels won't lust after their women, as it had caused a major problem earlier.
In other words, the people who are going to get stung by this are the ones who have auto-updates on anyway. Since that's one of the major reasons not to move to Windows 10 if you're not happy to accept whatever Microsoft decides you should have, the people who feel that way probably won't have auto-install turned on for earlier Windows versions anyway and should be OK here.
Win10 on an Acer aspire switch 10 (keyboard detaches for tablet). Only option is to set the update download time, when logging out the options are update and shutdown, update and something else, and sleep.
I run a script that deletes the update files before shutting down (%windir%\softwaredistribution\download) problem solved. The script I use is modified a bit from the one found here http://answers.microsoft.com/e...
I'm going to use Xeoron's advice above and go with GRC.com, Gibson has taken care of me for long time now (Shields up, DNS benchmark, and articles).
Oh ya, note: after I get a 3TB internal hard drive handled Linux KDE will be installed on my main system to dual with Windows 7.
Microsoft, can you please stop f**king up? You had one job.
Were stuck with them meddling in every facet of your life.
One area now is the Windows OS stylus, costing almost $100. Other approaches they would have to pay royalties.
An Android stylus can be made by anyone using a damp felt pen with a copper wire running close to it's tip to an area your finger would be.
(I have MS anger issues...KDE, Mint and a 3TB HD formatted with GPT till I noticed who retains it's license just to insure even though Win10 is so bad they will destroy your computer rather than allow you to find better).
Microsoft, can you please stop f**king up? You had one job.
You can see their fall back business when the Windows OS declines right?
They have been setting themselves up for it many years and more than likely become major patent trolls.
Remember they have the patent on the smiliey face; you yourself can end up owing over a post to your sweetie.
" allow a user to adopt an arbitrary image as an emoticon, which can then be represented by a character sequence in real-time communication." In other words, Microsoft now owns the idea of emoticons." http://how-toadopt.blogspot.co...
They got the patent, this even though it had been caught (earlier by a volunteer who assisted the patent company for just this thing) as weasel words for prior art.
Cell phones? They get $5:00 (US) for every one sold, by refusing incenses could intimidate other avenues of income.
No matter their life boat, they are and will constantly prove themselves as "we are evil".
Were stuck with them meddling in every facet of your life.
Apparently an offering by a splinter group from Opera (keeping to the original script) yet not enough to even hint at a constant basis, Opera 12.17 is my still my favorite. https://vivaldi.com/?lang=en_U... I thought at the time it was the latest Opera - was released just after Opera was sold.
Was a true surprise and pleasure to be able to import my Opera bookmarks, I've been collecting them for so long I have quite a list (many broken), always had to export an.adr file for Opera and an HTML to us on other browsers.
Vivaldi has an interesting cookie choice of the questionable (the heck that mean) "Cookie and data exceptions" (Host and or (not sure) Behavior), I was hoping for pre 12.17's deletion of cookies when it's shut down. A single Opera for as many sites as you wish to visit at one time. Vivaldi loaded and logged into/. has 5 Vivaldi.exe's running, ala firefox.
I'm still running the first version I downloaded, haven't used it enough to require it updated.
Vivaldi 1.0.118.19 (Developer Build) Revision 43f4fbf5070d8e8836b0b95209cdce919fde9520 OS Windows Blink 537.36 (@2c4eb9b03dda59544bfe6f10f994c66411cf41c7) JavaScript V8 3.30.33.16 Flash (Disabled) User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.115 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.0.118.19 Command Line "C:\Users\tone\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe" --always-authorize-plugins --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end Executable Path C:\Users\tone\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe Profile Path C:\Users\tone\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default Variations ed1d377-e1cc0f14
> How about you just don't fucking buy it and stop whining.
Well, Windows 10 has been pretty clever about sneaking into machines and installing itself, in the process downgrading your "pro" 7 install to a "home" one. So some victims of Windows 10 didn't consent, they were tricked.
If you used Windows 7 (a pretty good OS!), you might expect that, at some point, Microsoft would make another good OS. It's reasonable to be disappointed or even angry that they have not.
Notice how Win10 features (OS) are making their way into Win7? GWX which I consider "spyware"' shows up at random times. X:\windows\GWX did last night and I just delete the directory as normal. I Can't call it the cause as more was going on, but I can't boot into Win7 now, an error message does read cause it can't find a component in the GWX dir...
I can name the date we lost control, April 4th, 2015. The update KB3035583 was listed as only to make converting to Win10 easier, more of a description has been added to it since
For seven days my HOSTS file blocked a 600K file collected over a 24 hour time from being to sent to a third party. Every malware protection on the market let it pass.
Just today in the event viewer I found error entries saying GWX can't negotiate it's action (I've long ago deleted the X:windows/GWX directory).
When I found it, it had three more config.cfg files so wasn't done, it was the file responsible for installing the icon that let one download and installed Win10 for one; and viewing the GWX errors in the event viewer shows it's not done.
GWX is a pet peeve of mine. While I warned of GWX, the question I was always asked was how come I was the only person in the world to have this so called collected file, and the thread pretty much over, hey I tried. I was regulated to/.'s journal for some badly written attempts.
Because of it none saw why a hosts file is ones main defense from malware and the more one builds on it (hosts file) the better it becomes; and their loss.
On a metered connection (any connection) if Win10 isn't shut down it will use all the bad width to update itself. Gaming well you take your chances:)
Win7 after april 4th 19 2015 I stopped all updates, and sorted through the ones required and didn't mess with the ones that has wishywashie explanations of what they did.
The one in question is the one that kept force feeding u Win10, after collecting gobs of your data.
to add - don't underestimate the value of a HOSTS file.
Ok, technically this isn't a pocket gadget, but it is still a gadget.
Everything is modern life is supported by electricity. iPhones, AirConditioners, Mass Transportation, Warehouse Distribution Systems, New York City, Modern Factories, and yes even the financial sector.
The Steam engine's first use was providing fresh (and cooler) air in mine shafts, from there to the train which populated the US for one.
The Train would of been my answer, but does require steam, and as u mentioned the electricity we've become custom to using.
A long time ago I placed an order with Amazon.com. Being a Washington state resident and Amazon being located in Washington State my finial payment read I was being charged tax on this item in the event Washington State began taxing them, in the event there was no tax involved they would just keep the money.
I do all my purchasing at Newegg.com now and since.
Depending on the breach or hack, a hit and run they got passwords. If they set themselves on the server for a period of time (by Spotify's very nature) it could cause unforeseeable damage to the users.
From the ToS
7 Rights you grant us
"In consideration for the rights granted to you under the Agreements, you grant us the right (1) to allow the Spotify Service to use the processor, bandwidth, and storage hardware on your Device in order to facilitate the operation of the Service" https://www.spotify.com/us/leg...
As open as they were about this breach, they may never take or mention any steps taken to protect it's users.
Amazon Web Services. We can help you do cool and important things. At least until Jeff Bezos becomes aware that you're doing cool and important things...
Had to check (conflict of interest and all),and sure enough if they aren't using AWS they are on Google https://www.robtex.net/?dns=ne...
Yet the way I see it is Netflix is an edge server, they have different standards to follow; the Net neutrality act exempts edged servers from traffic shaping.
Yet a Bill pasted in 2015, pretty much addresses any feuding between the two. "Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act" does address edge servers. "would require the commission to issue regulations that "prohibit a broadband provider from entering into an agreement with an edge provider under which the broadband provider agrees, for consideration, in transmitting network traffic over the broadband Internet access service of an end user, to give preferential treatment or priority to the traffic of such edge provider over the traffic of other edge providers."" http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
I have a Samsung Monitor and when you turn it on the power light goes off. Every other display the power light comes on, my Panasonic Plasma it's a red light set dead center at the bottom of the screen.
Let's assume for a moment you've hijacked a USB dongle, you've gotten a ride onto an airgapped computer.......now what?
Are you going to write a visual basic GUI to trace all the IPs simultaneously or something?
So you've taken over a standalone PC. Huzzah. You've haxxored the boxen.
What are you doing with the data you've stolen?
Did you realize that you now have to snag another ride back OFF the machine via another USB stick, ride someplace else, infect THAT machine, and hope it isn't airgapped too, in order to get out again?
It sounds beatable just by write protecting the USB device if TFA is correct, so not 100% but very capable.
Taking a leap, I see it as a specialized piece of software looking for something in particular, this by images and the broad term of documentation.
To download images from almost anybodies system would put a dent in the capacity of the USB device (even if just from a browsers cache). It doesn't sound like it would be that obvious and more selective at what it took.
Or I'm giving this malware just way too much credit.
State of the art? How is this any different than the viruses that were passed around 30 years ago on c64 floppies?
It can't be analyzed or very hard to, and where http://vx/ (dot) netlux (dot) org came in handy.
The site is back -but hard to catch when it's up. It's a malware database, where malware is sent or downloaded just for that purpose. I'd like to see what's said there about this piece of malware.
So why is someone plugging a USB drive with FIREFOX into an "air gapped" computer?
http://portableapps.com/ was my first thought. It's a very impressive collection of portable software, Firefox/Mozilla isn't listed in my setup, Sea monkey and Opera are.
My folder is just under 6 Gigs, the software meant to be on a USB device or at least right at home.
This piece of malware might hit portableapps rather hard, just for being what it is.
You're talking about a two decade old OS. It was released in 1993 - a period when the vast majority of people didn't have Internet access, and those that did were either through work or dial-up modems.
I was in college and looking at putting up a mail server, Microsoft Exchange Server was worth looking at, it was 80mb and I was on a dial up, so I told them to send it to me as they offered, then downloaded it anyway.
2 weeks later I get a UPS hot rush it was a 4 CD set from Microsoft, it contained NT4 server, NT4 service pack 2, Outlook, and Microsoft Exchange Server. I still have that 4 disk set.
I call bullshit. Windows NT doesn't have product activation. That was added in Windows XP, released in 2001.
Actually in a way there were two, NT or 5.1 was a demo that would only last 120 days. There was hack for it that kept it from expiring, and one changing it to a workstation as well.
From the file:
This is the crack that allows the NT 4.0 Server / IIS 120 day demo CDs available from www.microsoft.com/iis/ to be installed as Workstation rather than Server. It also defeats the 120 day time-bomb.
This is the crack to disable the 120 day time-bomb in the NT 4.0 Server / IIS 120 day demo CD set being given away for free. You can order the CD set from www.microsoft.com/iis/
Every now and then you have to reinstall MS Windows BECAUSE IT SUCKS. It gets bloated, infected, bugs out, whatever, and then you need a fresh damn re-install. Are you going to go after those people too?
After losing a laptop to UEFI, I dug deeply into the Windows 7 TOS, not an easy task as there are so many different ones.
I purchased a Windows 7 Pro CD for my custom built system, I can re/install it on the same computer as many times as I want, the trick is not to upgrade it too much or it's considered a different system; see my post below "Bet few knew this..."
Something many aren't aware of is if you change or upgrade your system you are subtracting numbers from a total allowed before your OS is no longer activated or legal and must be reactivated or re-purchased.
I use to know them for NT but it's been awhile. A CPU change I know counts as 2 points, a trick was to claim you had a NIC card as it added 2 points to the total.
“Significant” hardware changes can also trigger the Windows activation process again. For example, if you swap out multiple components on your PC at the same time, you may have to go through the activation process. Microsoft hasn’t explained exactly which hardware changes will trigger this. http://www.howtogeek.com/18284...
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Setting up a new ISP, router, and using IPv6 for the first time, pasted in one IPv6 number hoping it was the router address, it was my IP address - Google picked it up and showed all of my /. post as the only hit.
It was disturbing in a way, but did show how good search engines have gotten.
Windows 10 fits more criteria for "malware" than the most well-known malware suites do. Forcefully installs itself? Check. Spies on you? Check. Displays ads to you? Check. Uninstalls competitors' programs? Check. Doles out your security keys to people on your contact list? Check.
It's one step away from literally being ransomware.
I consider it ransomware, more so when the computer is locked to that OS and it can't be changed.
I know dual boot Linux, explain that to my Mom.
is being scrubbed out of existence and re-reasoned, as it would truly be scoffed at.
I've looked for links to what I know so if I ever brought it up I had a citation, yet to no avail. My only source is a National Geographic two cartridge VHS set titled ISLAM that I checked out of the library many years ago. The title might be different I just remember that the word ISLAM was in large bold letters, and how I read it's title, (inside ISLAM?)...
I won't post the story without any available backup source (the cleansing is working). Only that it's worn so the bad angels won't lust after their women, as it had caused a major problem earlier.
In other words, the people who are going to get stung by this are the ones who have auto-updates on anyway. Since that's one of the major reasons not to move to Windows 10 if you're not happy to accept whatever Microsoft decides you should have, the people who feel that way probably won't have auto-install turned on for earlier Windows versions anyway and should be OK here.
Win10 on an Acer aspire switch 10 (keyboard detaches for tablet).
Only option is to set the update download time, when logging out the options are update and shutdown, update and something else, and sleep.
I run a script that deletes the update files before shutting down (%windir%\softwaredistribution\download) problem solved.
The script I use is modified a bit from the one found here http://answers.microsoft.com/e...
I'm going to use Xeoron's advice above and go with GRC.com, Gibson has taken care of me for long time now (Shields up, DNS benchmark, and articles).
Oh ya, note: after I get a 3TB internal hard drive handled Linux KDE will be installed on my main system to dual with Windows 7.
Microsoft, can you please stop f**king up? You had one job.
Were stuck with them meddling in every facet of your life.
One area now is the Windows OS stylus, costing almost $100. Other approaches they would have to pay royalties.
An Android stylus can be made by anyone using a damp felt pen with a copper wire running close to it's tip to an area your finger would be.
(I have MS anger issues...KDE, Mint and a 3TB HD formatted with GPT till I noticed who retains it's license just to insure even though Win10 is so bad they will destroy your computer rather than allow you to find better).
Microsoft, can you please stop f**king up? You had one job.
You can see their fall back business when the Windows OS declines right?
They have been setting themselves up for it many years and more than likely become major patent trolls.
Remember they have the patent on the smiliey face; you yourself can end up owing over a post to your sweetie.
" allow a user to adopt an arbitrary image as an emoticon, which can then be represented by a character sequence in real-time communication." In other words, Microsoft now owns the idea of emoticons." http://how-toadopt.blogspot.co...
They got the patent, this even though it had been caught (earlier by a volunteer who assisted the patent company for just this thing) as weasel words for prior art.
Cell phones? They get $5:00 (US) for every one sold, by refusing incenses could intimidate other avenues of income.
No matter their life boat, they are and will constantly prove themselves as "we are evil".
Were stuck with them meddling in every facet of your life.
Bottom line, found a way to produce what was required differently, and evolved in that direction.
/sarcasm Oh noes! Only 2 domains shot down; another million left to pick from!
Good luck trying to stomp out piracy.
Know one not a .se domain?
Apparently an offering by a splinter group from Opera (keeping to the original script) yet not enough to even hint at a constant basis, Opera 12.17 is my still my favorite. https://vivaldi.com/?lang=en_U... I thought at the time it was the latest Opera - was released just after Opera was sold.
Was a true surprise and pleasure to be able to import my Opera bookmarks, I've been collecting them for so long I have quite a list (many broken), always had to export an .adr file for Opera and an HTML to us on other browsers.
Vivaldi has an interesting cookie choice of the questionable (the heck that mean) "Cookie and data exceptions" (Host and or (not sure) Behavior), I was hoping for pre 12.17's deletion of cookies when it's shut down. A single Opera for as many sites as you wish to visit at one time. Vivaldi loaded and logged into /. has 5 Vivaldi.exe's running, ala firefox.
I'm still running the first version I downloaded, haven't used it enough to require it updated.
Vivaldi 1.0.118.19 (Developer Build)
Revision 43f4fbf5070d8e8836b0b95209cdce919fde9520
OS Windows
Blink 537.36 (@2c4eb9b03dda59544bfe6f10f994c66411cf41c7)
JavaScript V8 3.30.33.16
Flash (Disabled)
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.115 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.0.118.19
Command Line "C:\Users\tone\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe" --always-authorize-plugins --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path C:\Users\tone\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe
Profile Path C:\Users\tone\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default
Variations ed1d377-e1cc0f14
> How about you just don't fucking buy it and stop whining.
Well, Windows 10 has been pretty clever about sneaking into machines and installing itself, in the process downgrading your "pro" 7 install to a "home" one. So some victims of Windows 10 didn't consent, they were tricked.
If you used Windows 7 (a pretty good OS!), you might expect that, at some point, Microsoft would make another good OS. It's reasonable to be disappointed or even angry that they have not.
Notice how Win10 features (OS) are making their way into Win7? GWX which I consider "spyware"' shows up at random times. X:\windows\GWX did last night and I just delete the directory as normal. I Can't call it the cause as more was going on, but I can't boot into Win7 now, an error message does read cause it can't find a component in the GWX dir...
You don't own your computer. redmond does.
I can name the date we lost control, April 4th, 2015. The update KB3035583 was listed as only to make converting to Win10 easier, more of a description has been added to it since
For seven days my HOSTS file blocked a 600K file collected over a 24 hour time from being to sent to a third party. Every malware protection on the market let it pass.
The captured material which in my case starts:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera15\28.0.1750.48\osmesa.dll 2,950.00 KB 4/3/2015 4:16:32 PM
C:\Windows\Temp\CProgram Files (x86)Opera15\installing\osmesa.dll 2,950.00 KB 4/3/2015 4:16:32 PM
Goes on for 4000 more lines ending in
C:\Users\Tone\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\4msw7c4t.default\thumbnails\cdd6f9ceb15e02a0a36b6164ce79484e.png 2.00 KB 4/4/2015 11:48:49 PM
FFFFF
Just today in the event viewer I found error entries saying GWX can't negotiate it's action (I've long ago deleted the X:windows/GWX directory).
When I found it, it had three more config.cfg files so wasn't done, it was the file responsible for installing the icon that let one download and installed Win10 for one; and viewing the GWX errors in the event viewer shows it's not done.
GWX is a pet peeve of mine. While I warned of GWX, the question I was always asked was how come I was the only person in the world to have this so called collected file, and the thread pretty much over, hey I tried. I was regulated to /.'s journal for some badly written attempts.
Because of it none saw why a hosts file is ones main defense from malware and the more one builds on it (hosts file) the better it becomes; and their loss.
On a metered connection (any connection) if Win10 isn't shut down it will use all the bad width to update itself. Gaming well you take your chances :)
Win7 after april 4th 19 2015 I stopped all updates, and sorted through the ones required and didn't mess with the ones that has wishywashie explanations of what they did.
The one in question is the one that kept force feeding u Win10, after collecting gobs of your data.
to add - don't underestimate the value of a HOSTS file.
Ok, technically this isn't a pocket gadget, but it is still a gadget.
Everything is modern life is supported by electricity. iPhones, AirConditioners, Mass Transportation, Warehouse Distribution Systems, New York City, Modern Factories, and yes even the financial sector.
The Steam engine's first use was providing fresh (and cooler) air in mine shafts, from there to the train which populated the US for one.
The Train would of been my answer, but does require steam, and as u mentioned the electricity we've become custom to using.
A long time ago I placed an order with Amazon.com. Being a Washington state resident and Amazon being located
in Washington State my finial payment read I was being charged tax on this item in the event Washington State
began taxing them, in the event there was no tax involved they would just keep the money.
I do all my purchasing at Newegg.com now and since.
Depending on the breach or hack, a hit and run they got passwords. If they set themselves on the server for a period of time (by Spotify's very nature) it could cause unforeseeable damage to the users.
From the ToS
7 Rights you grant us
"In consideration for the rights granted to you under the Agreements, you grant us the right (1) to allow the Spotify Service to use the processor, bandwidth, and storage hardware on your Device in order to facilitate the operation of the Service"
https://www.spotify.com/us/leg...
As open as they were about this breach, they may never take or mention any steps taken to protect it's users.
Amazon Web Services. We can help you do cool and important things. At least until Jeff Bezos becomes aware that you're doing cool and important things...
Had to check (conflict of interest and all),and sure enough if they aren't using AWS they are on Google https://www.robtex.net/?dns=ne...
Yet the way I see it is Netflix is an edge server, they have different standards to follow; the Net neutrality act exempts edged servers from traffic shaping.
Yet a Bill pasted in 2015, pretty much addresses any feuding between the two. "Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act" does address edge servers. "would require the commission to issue regulations that "prohibit a broadband provider from entering into an agreement with an edge provider under which the broadband provider agrees, for consideration, in transmitting network traffic over the broadband Internet access service of an end user, to give preferential treatment or priority to the traffic of such edge provider over the traffic of other edge providers."" http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
This could get good.
that sets them apart, and above.
I have a Samsung Monitor and when you turn it on the power light goes off. Every other display the power light comes on, my Panasonic Plasma it's a red light set dead center at the bottom of the screen.
Let's assume for a moment you've hijacked a USB dongle, you've gotten a ride onto an airgapped computer. ......now what?
Are you going to write a visual basic GUI to trace all the IPs simultaneously or something?
So you've taken over a standalone PC. Huzzah. You've haxxored the boxen.
What are you doing with the data you've stolen?
Did you realize that you now have to snag another ride back OFF the machine via another USB stick, ride someplace else, infect THAT machine, and hope it isn't airgapped too, in order to get out again?
It sounds beatable just by write protecting the USB device if TFA is correct, so not 100% but very capable.
Taking a leap, I see it as a specialized piece of software looking for something in particular, this by images and the broad term of documentation.
To download images from almost anybodies system would put a dent in the capacity of the USB device (even if just from a browsers cache). It doesn't sound like it would be that obvious and more selective at what it took.
Or I'm giving this malware just way too much credit.
State of the art? How is this any different than the viruses that were passed around 30 years ago on c64 floppies?
It can't be analyzed or very hard to, and where http://vx/ (dot) netlux (dot) org came in handy.
The site is back -but hard to catch when it's up. It's a malware database, where malware is sent or downloaded just for that purpose. I'd like to see what's said there about this piece of malware.
So why is someone plugging a USB drive with FIREFOX into an "air gapped" computer?
http://portableapps.com/ was my first thought. It's a very impressive collection of portable software, Firefox/Mozilla isn't listed in my setup, Sea monkey and Opera are.
My folder is just under 6 Gigs, the software meant to be on a USB device or at least right at home.
This piece of malware might hit portableapps rather hard, just for being what it is.
You're talking about a two decade old OS. It was released in 1993 - a period when the vast majority of people didn't have Internet access, and those that did were either through work or dial-up modems.
I was in college and looking at putting up a mail server, Microsoft Exchange Server was worth looking at, it was 80mb and I was on a dial up, so I told them to send it to me as they offered, then downloaded it anyway.
2 weeks later I get a UPS hot rush it was a 4 CD set from Microsoft, it contained NT4 server, NT4 service pack 2, Outlook, and Microsoft Exchange Server.
I still have that 4 disk set.
I call bullshit. Windows NT doesn't have product activation. That was added in Windows XP, released in 2001.
As knowing the points for NT your right I couldn't of, it's been awhile must of been W2k, I even spent time looking for those points as a NT note.
I call bullshit. Windows NT doesn't have product activation. That was added in Windows XP, released in 2001.
Actually in a way there were two, NT or 5.1 was a demo that would only last 120 days.
There was hack for it that kept it from expiring, and one changing it to a workstation as well.
From the file:
This is the crack that allows the NT 4.0 Server / IIS 120 day demo CDs available
from www.microsoft.com/iis/ to be installed as Workstation rather than Server.
It also defeats the 120 day time-bomb.
This is the crack to disable the 120 day time-bomb in the NT 4.0 Server / IIS
120 day demo CD set being given away for free. You can order the CD set from
www.microsoft.com/iis/
Stray Cat released both of them.
Every now and then you have to reinstall MS Windows BECAUSE IT SUCKS. It gets bloated, infected, bugs out, whatever, and then you need a fresh damn re-install. Are you going to go after those people too?
After losing a laptop to UEFI, I dug deeply into the Windows 7 TOS, not an easy task as there are so many different ones.
I purchased a Windows 7 Pro CD for my custom built system, I can re/install it on the same computer as many times as I want, the trick is not to upgrade it too much or it's considered a different system; see my post below "Bet few knew this..."
Something many aren't aware of is if you change or upgrade your system you are subtracting numbers from a total allowed before your OS is no longer activated or legal and must be reactivated or re-purchased.
I use to know them for NT but it's been awhile. A CPU change I know counts as 2 points, a trick was to claim you had a NIC card as it added 2 points to the total.
“Significant” hardware changes can also trigger the Windows activation process again. For example, if you swap out multiple components on your PC at the same time, you may have to go through the activation process. Microsoft hasn’t explained exactly which hardware changes will trigger this.
http://www.howtogeek.com/18284...