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hawick

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Anything potentially sinister in this?
« on: February 27, 2008, 09:12:50 PM »
I received a windows update for Vista Pro today and at the end of it my machine froze and I got an on-screen message saying my vista (bought from a Microsoft dealer for $200+ just before Xmas) may be counterfeit and something about 30 days grace. It said problem SLO7-002 unidentified software.

I'm hoping it is a false positive, but immediately after I ran avast and my avast came up with no virus but 'an unable to scan' not seeen before:

C:Users\home\AppData\Roaming....\backup.db

What is meant by roaming in this case?

PS: My Vista is showing the normal product key and windows genuine logo still, do you think I should contact Microsoft?

Thanks for any advice!


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Re: Anything potentially sinister in this?
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2008, 09:34:15 PM »
That would be my first port of call

Roaming is the new name for documents and settings in XP all your ie temps etc are in there

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Re: Anything potentially sinister in this?
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2008, 10:20:20 PM »
Hi hawick,

This message means to say, go run:
WsatConfig.exe -network:enable -endpointCert:53B7DAAA12C8D60FD10908328A45A707C299AAB5  etc...

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Re: Anything potentially sinister in this?
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2008, 10:44:43 PM »
Thanks for answers, one which I understand, the other which goes far above my (admittedly simple) head!!! :-[

Will contact Microsoft, though with the genuine logo still appearing in 'system', and no indication of a 30 day warning period there, half of me thinks I might be better to let sleeping dogs stay exactly where they are!

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Re: Anything potentially sinister in this?
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2008, 12:25:34 PM »
Thanks - yet again, guys - spoke with Microsoft, looks like I had a false positive'.

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Re: Anything potentially sinister in this?
« Reply #5 on: February 29, 2008, 05:25:05 PM »
Thanks - yet again, guys - spoke with Microsoft, looks like I had a false positive'.

You and a huge number of others, this is a very common occurrence.
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