From: "Glenn Meadows" 

How long before the next Trojan/hacker attack targets the
activation/de-activation function, and just plain turns each PC off,
claiming that the actual valid key used, is invalid.

(I know, no gain to the hacker community in getting computer/bots in place,
but quite malicious none the less).

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Glenn M.
"/m"  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 11:44:18 -0400, "Geo"
 wrote:
>
>>"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>>news:4482fecd$3{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>> Yep - that's what it appears to be. All patched XP users now have
>>> spyware
>>> that now monitors their web page flow and is  able to deactivate their
>>> OS
>>at
>>> any given time MS wishes. The one thing George Orwell didn't get correct
>>was
>>> the name of Big Brother.  His name is Bill
>>
>>Do people just not see the inherent danger in allowing a vendor this sort
>>of
>>control over your IS infrastructure?
>
> It is worse than allowing a vendor to have this level of control... it
> is allowing the ability to effectively "shut off" the PCs in your
> company, whether the switch is thrown by Microsoft or some hacker.
>
> /m

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