RE: [PCTECH] Microsoft Office & XP Home

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds scary, Chuck.  That doesn't sound like Microsoft's usual ways of
extracting money from our pockets.  <g>

Could this be a remnant of the remote Messenger bug they cured awhile back?

Is he up-to-date on patches (SP2)?  I would try SpyBot and AdAware, too.

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Chuck Lewis
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 5:09 PM
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I had a user come to me (one of our Sales folks) and tell me an
> interesting story.
>
> He bought a Compaq/HP computer 6 months ago and it came with
> Windows XP Home
> and MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, etc.) and he had
> been using
> them up until a few weeks ago when he started getting a box/boxes
> popping up
> telling him he needed to register and giving him a price...
>
> Any of you aware of anything like this ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> Chuck