Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Microsoft Slams Authentication Notice

  • THE PROBLEM:
THIS COPY OF WINDOWS IS NOT GENUINE
You are a Victim of Software Counterfeiting

Well this was the Notice which Microsoft Slammed. Now you understand how Microsoft puts it foot where it makes sense....
Well it so happened that Auto Updates were turned on and I did a mistake by downloading their new Update "Microsoft_Genine_Advantage.txt". Problems started just after I installed the Update. I was required to restart my Computer the above notice was the result. I could start the OS and carry on my day to day work but they restricted all access to INTERNET and Firefox was not allowed to access net.
  • THE SOLLUTION:
Well Microsoft just made one Mistake. They should have given this notice to somebody else. I found out a very simple way to bypass this. This is what I did.....
  1. Restored the System to a Previous date when my computer was working fine. Thus the update was deleted.
  2. Cleaned the Disk of all Cookies and Temporary files which may be used by Microsoft to re-slam the Notice.
  3. Traced the Website www.microsoft.com and found out the Main Foreign Server.
  4. Set the firewall to block that particular Server Address.
So you see There is no Point in being a Part of the Problem but it is always better to be a Part of the Solution............

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