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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:30 AM

Follow up: When a 'False Positive' isnt' a false positive

Since my post on Sunday, in which I talk about what a false positive is and what it isn't, I've received a couple of questions about the scenarios I outlined and how the math works so I'd like to clear some of that up. First off, the purpose of outlining
Posted by alexkoc | 26 Comments
Sunday, July 16, 2006 5:32 AM

When a 'False Positive' isn't a false positive

Recently I've been hearing questions from journalists, other bloggers and customers about what exactly makes systems fail validation. Specifically, I have been asked for two things. First, a breakdown of the kinds of piracy that are detected by WGA and
Posted by alexkoc | 23 Comments
Friday, July 07, 2006 12:30 AM

What should customers do when they're given counterfeit software?

I saw a report internally today of a customer who recently purchased a PC from a reseller, the customer indicated that they were pretty sure that the copy of Windows included with the PC was not genuine. Also, the customer thought that the reseller that
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Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:46 PM

Trojan masquerading as WGA files

In recent days we've received a number of reports of a worm or Trojan that is infecting systems and labels the process it runs under as "Windows Genuine Advantage Notification". An update was posted to the Malicious Software Encyclopedia that provides
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Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:08 PM

Apple software checks in with Apple

Just saw this news earlier today reporting that a recently released Apple software update, specifically to a widget that runs on the desktop, checks in with Apple servers. Apparently this feature is used to confirm that the widget that is running is the
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