The KB940510 update detects activation bypass (KB940510 highlights some counterfeit Windows installations)

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I hope this wil not detect my Genuine installation of Paradox

I have a Paradox file on the root directory of my genuine installation of Vista (bought from Microsoft!); I hope this won't inactivate my licence, because Paradox is a legitimate software not to be confused with the Paradox OEM exploit.

I am speaking about the legitimate Paradox relational database driver used by some softwares I bought (used through ODBC or OLEDB). My Vista installation was activated with a genuine licence before i even installed this other software.

If Microsoft detets some newer software installed after genuine Vista installation, it will steal the customer.

i absolutely don't know what the Paradox OEM crack is doing, I have never seen it or even tried it.

But if someone tried it by accident and if it left some trace on the genuine system where it was tried (or installed on the PC without user consent due to some viral infection), I just hope that Microsoft will not switch off Windows, but instead will provide the necessary cleanup tool, and will still allow the user to reactivate with its existing genuine licence.

Unfortunately, I have seen my genuine installation of Vista Ultimate OEM being blocked by WGA several times, and I have already had to reactivate it with a complex procude to prove again that I had really bought it. This rehappened the last time I had to change my graphics adapter because the previous one had burnt (due to insufficient power: I also had to change the power for a 450 watts unit, plus another fan for the box, just because of the display adapter): Vista did not want to reactivate.

It rehappens that WGA wants to revalidate by phone only each time I plug or unplug a harddisk. It also happened when I unplugged a DDR SDRAM to put a larger model.

i don't know what WGA is doing, but now, the number of revalidation i have had to do in just one year is really bzcoming a nightmare. Vista is really untolerant and has gone several times in "emergency" situation where i had to revalidate theoretically in the next 48 hours, but where I was given just a couple of hours becfore getting blocked.

Unfortunately, Microsoft does not want to give me another licence number that is not so much compromized by too many reactivations on the same machine. And Vista Ultimate was expensive and bought at Microsoft! Now I always fear loosing everything on my machine, including other non-Microsoft licences linked to my machine (such as DRM-protected medias, that Vista or the DRM provider does not want to transfer to any external backup solution, due to limitation/bugs in Media Player and to the DRM protection scheme that does not work on someting else than Vista and refuses all transfers to external devices).

Microsoft says that WGA validation is needed for our security. But for me, WGA means real insecurity for MY OWN data, this is a bug installed in the system, a malicious stealth backdoor that Microsoft can operate remotely without authorization.

Microsoft is saying to everyone: ALL YOUR DATA ON WINDOWS ARE BELONG TO US. Microsoft is stealing our exclusive rights.

Posted by: PhilippeV   Posted on: 02/28/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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