andrew clarke wrote to Charles Scaglione

ac> CS> BTW, that generated Product ID I mention above is the way
ac> CS> Microsoft has  been able to block the widely illegal "corporate
ac> CS> version" of Pro from  obtaining updates from the MS update site.

ac>Hmm.  It would be quite bad if a large scale security 
ac>exploit was found in a popular Microsoft product but they 
ac>only allowed legitimate users of the product to fix the bug 
ac>and plug the hole.

That's exactly what they're doing - or I should say attempting to do.  

However, there are many ways to get around product activation and thus 
far the hackers have been one or two steps ahead of MS.

cscag{at}charter.net

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