I was probably infested by a broken Microsoft update, as reported in

    
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2859267/operating-systems/windows-7-hit-by-rash-of-bogus-not-genuine-reports-validation-code-0x8004fe21.html

  It appears that I probably also got the corrective update, so no
lasting harm done.

David Gillett


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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Win7 "Activation" update
From: Jerry Belfor <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, December 17, 2014 10:09 am
To: [log in to unmask]

David,

I had a similar situation on my wife's computer running Win 7 Home
Premium.
It also appeared after installing the latest round of updates.

I hesitated to follow the link the pop-up provided for fear of a virus.
However, after doing some searching I was lead to the same page and
running
the software I was "pronounced" legitimate. Anyway, don't think it was
due
to your drive being cloned. I believe Microsoft occasionally updates its
database of keys resulting in some false positives.

Just an FYI for others this may happen to.

Jerry

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:57 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Last week, when I downloaded and installed updates on one of my
> netbooks. I got a strange pop-up, apparently outside Windows update,
> warning me that I might be a victim of pirates and telling me to
> download and run some kind of Windows activation program to verify that
> my copy of Windows waslegitimate.
> My first thought was that there couldn't possibly be an issue, that
> that machine is running the version of Windows that came with it. It's
> the only computer I've ever had running Windows 7 Starter,
> As I thought about it, though, I realized that while it was he
> original copy of Windows, it wasn't on the original drive. I had, at
> least 6 months previously, cloned the original 320GB hard drive (much
> less than full!) to a 256GB SD, which is what's in the netbook now, and
> reformatted the 320GB drive for use in my wife's MacBook, replacing its
> original 80GB (or was it 120?) drive.
> Maybe Windows had finally gotten around to detecting the drive
> swap.... Meanwhile, I had downloaded and launched the software they
> called for. and after half an hour or so of doing nothing particularly
> visible, it pronounced itself satisfied that my Windows installation was
> legitimate.
>
> David Gillett
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