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Re: [LUG] Offtopic: Re: Windows "kill switch"?

 

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Tony Sumner wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2006, Ben Goodger was like:
>> Activation does not prevent one from using one copy on multiple
>> computers so long as they are not identical, allegedly.
> 
> There are two files wpa.dbl and wpa.bak that hold information on
> the hardware configuration. If you want to re-install Windows XP
> you can take copies of these files and copy them back in after the
> installation and that gets round the 30-day cutoff. So it would
> be easy to run two copies on machines with identical hardware. 
> It should be easy for someone to work out how to edit the file wpa.dbl
> so that you could get it to accept any hardware configuration and
> then WPA is dead. 
> 
> Tony Sumner
> 

Just as what might seem a very off topic and a bit of a random question
from me..

What happens if someone uses WSUS to manage updates as their client
machines do not have internet access ??

Ideas on a postcard..

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Neil Stone

Systems Administrator
FlashTek UK

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