Microsoft Encourages Pirates to Update Windows Security
If you’ve got a pirated copy of Windows, Microsoft wants you to know that you can update your security settings too.
In fact, the computing giant says it encourages all users to update their security settings to help combat the latest hole in the operating system that some hackers have used to attack Google and several financial institutions.
“I preach that users should trust Redmond for their word on this one, and that infected pirated copies of Windows are not doing anyone any good, especially Microsoft,” says Charles Wisniewski, security analyst at Sophos.. ”It hurts their reputation and, piracy or not, people should feel obligated to do their part for a safer Internet.”
Microsoft has since issued an emergency patch. But if tens of millions PC owners who are using pirated copies of Windows never patch that will make it easier for similar attacks to proliferate, security experts say.
yes, update your pirated copy of windows so we can track you and hunt you down like the animal you are!
I knew WGA would come back to bite Microsoft in the clacker.
If you treat your customers like criminals (even the ones that are criminals), they won’t trust you ever again.