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Re: [LUG] Windows "kill switch"?

 

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Rob Beard wrote:
> Keith Abraham wrote:
> 
>>Interesting for dual-booters?
>>
>>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=84&tag=nl.e550
>>
>>I'm glad my software is free.
>>
>>Keith
>>  
> 
> You know, I can see this being a good thing.  With all those pirate 
> copies of Windows XP out there, if they get turned off a large amount of 
> people will shout about it.  Just need to get the message about 
> alternatives out to them.

One way for a piece of malware to create havoc would be to corrupt
whatever this software is using to establish if Windows is "genuine" or
not.

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