The good news is ?<?????>? (WTF), I've had all that happen to me...
I generally lost a custom picture desktop background, easier to loose...
I got the OS directly from MS and if they can't see it is for real, shame on
them.
BUT since I have nothing to hide I let them run their funny little "proof"
files, and I always came out clean....... Duh...
It has NOT happened to me in maybe a year. I always figured letting them test
might help them find out what they were doing wrong and they might get it right.
OK, -- Now the other side of "that" coin...
I always wondered how long it would take for the malware people to
notice how easy it is to break this "WPA" (activation) stuff, and then
walk people into a trap just like you think you are in...
Treating everyone like they are already thieves is bad enough, but delivering
"the masses" directly into the arms of the real thieves is something I can see
coming...
(I hope I'm wrong...)
From: "DHSinclair"
I have now had one of my new (6mo+) WinXP machines do something very
strange and scary (well to me anyway). Yes, I am freaked out ATM!
Late last night I went to this machine to flush and shutdown the Dnetc
application "rc5-72."
I did this, no problem. Then I chose to update both my MalwareBytes and
SpybotS&D signature files. This machine has ESET a/v installed and is on my
lan behind a NAT router.
Post the updates, the default screen background (Bliss-the meadow scene)
kind of like un-scrolled, erased, leaving me with a plain black
background! This was followed by the appearance of a very official looking
MS "Genuine Advantage" window in the lower right corner telling me that my
WinXP installed OS now appears to be suspect! It wanted me to go get some
file and run it. I did not!!!!!
Is this real? Is this a worm/virus/trojan I now need to go find?
I rebooted to SafeMode and hard scanned the machine with ESET. I found
nothing.
No, I did NOT try to run MWBytes or SpybotS&D in SafeMode......dumb me!!!!
I may try this later this afternoon off the lan!
I believe that I fully backed up this machine this past December; so if I
have to kill/rebuild it I should loose very little. The system is ~6mo old.
The machine is now OFF (psu=0) and disconnected from the lan.
