[97482] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sat Jun 16 16:15:20 2007
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org>
Cc: Fergie <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:14:15 +0200
In-Reply-To: <0F67931E-B653-4B89-AF64-609B1FAF35A9@mail-abuse.org> (Douglas
Otis's message of "Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:56:27 -0700")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Douglas Otis:
> At the prior ISOS conference in Redmond, Microsoft made assurances
> even systems failing Genuine Advantage verification can enable
> automatic udpates to obtain critical updates. One of the attendees
> remarked privately this automation works only for English versions of
> XP. : (
Yeah, I couldn't install the latest security update today; I was
forced to run WGA first. I have to admit that I didn't try very hard
to bypass it since WGA was already installed on that machine.
Microsoft has been quite successful in associating security updates
with piracy. Perhaps not at a technical level, but definitely in
people's minds. 8-(
