 Hot_RatsHe's Not Tor Johnson
join:2003-07-08
Indianapolis, IN | reply to blacksurfer
Re: People with fake keys can't protect from Sasse I'd have to say no.
For one thing, it's a good reason to "go legit with XP, or go back to what you what you *were* running" and could boost sales.
Given that there have been workarounds to this for like 2 years or something these people must be pretty clueless about computers in general and should probably buy a Dell with a retail copy of XP so that they can have some guy walk them through Windows Update in broken English. If they can't afford Windows or aren't resourceful enough to figure out how to get around this, then they could go buy a copy of Lindows or download Fedora or Mandrake or something, which comes with the added bonus of being able to feign superiority over Windows users.
Microsoft prohibits you from updating to Service Pack 1 with that key (let alone the recent updates, of which I have no clue), and they do so for a reason... exactly the reason that you describe, i.e. pirates have no remedy to avoid infection. Maybe their guilt over spreading an infection around the 'Net will serve in place of the guilt they should feel for pirating XP in the first place and serve as the impetus for change.
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