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Pirated Win2k OS + SP2 = disaster ?

J

jazzhound

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If you have a pirated version of win2k, be careful: This is from another forum.

Well its installed, but guess what. After the reboot my firewall reports I get pinged by 207.68.161.3 port 0

A little reverse DNS and low and behold, guess who owns the ip

Registrant:
Microsoft Corp (MSFT4-DOM)
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US

Domain Name: MSFT.NET

Administrative Contact:
Microsoft Hostmaster (MH37-ORG) msnhst@MICROSOFT.COM
Microsoft Corp
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US
425 882 8080
Fax- - - .: 206 703 2641
Technical Contact:
MSN NOC (MN5-ORG) msnnoc@MICROSOFT.COM
Microsoft Corp
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US
425 882 8080
Fax- PATH
Billing Contact:
idNames, Accounting (IA90-ORG) accounting@IDNAMES.COM
idNames from Network Solutions, Inc
440 Benmar
Suite #3325
Houston, TX 77060
US
703-742-4777
Fax- - 281-447-1160

Record last updated on 04-Apr-2001.
Record expires on 13-Mar-2002.
Record created on 12-Mar-1997.
Database last updated on 11-May-2001 14:16:00 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET 207.46.138.11
DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET 207.46.138.12
DNS1.TK.MSFT.NET 207.46.232.37
DNS2.TK.MSFT.NET 207.46.232.38
DNS3.UK.MSFT.NET 213.199.144.151


Coincidence....I think not
I searched and the hklm/software/microsoft/mslicencing key is gone. perhaps its hidden elsewhere.

anyways, food for though

almost forgot, this data is brought to you by network solutions.

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I merely did a cut and paste, sorry but original author unknown.

Is there any credence to this ??
 
i thought the 127.0.x.x was used for loopback troubleshooting, and couldnt be used to send over the internet or a LAN??
but I installed SP2 on a pirated copy of win2k and it worked for me..... (for a friend that asked me to do this for them 🙂 )
 
Umm, there is no 127.xx IP. Look closely. 207.xx.

Anyways, I don't understand enough about TCP/IP to know how capable ICMP's are at retrieving information. Microsoft you bastards ! 😀

 
Why uninstall when you can prosecute? 😀 Food for thought, cause they do have the power, not to mention the time.
 
I'm running legal copy of win2k + sp2 and I do not have the mslicensing key either. Plus, I don't think MS is that dumb to ping you for pirating.
 
well so far I haven't got pinged by Zone Alarm.

It just seems like to much trouble for Microsoft to just now try to do this with Windows 2000.

jazzhound what forum was this posted on?
 
An ICMP ping can never retrieve any information from your computer, just as the name suggests, it sends out a ping, and waits for a reply, thats all.

Sounds strange that anyone would try to send anything at all to port 0 anyway, normally there should be no traffic on this port whatsoever.

Ah well, Im no network guru, so I wont say too much anyway, just sounds strange to me 🙂

One more thing, how would the service pack be able to detect a pirated version?
I guess if you used a crack or something, but the vast majority of pirated 2K's out there just use serial numbers from Serials2000 or similar sources, no different from using an honest version.
 
How the hell do you know it has anything to do with making sure you have a legitimate copy of Win2k or not? Unless they're going to press charges, then it's absolutely useless for them to know whether your copy is legit or not... it would be idiotic of them to implement something so controversial and not gain anything from it.
 
On my work machine (which is a very legal copy of win2k) doesn't have SP2 installed yet and that reg key is not there. SO obviously SP2 is not removing it. It's not there to start with.

 
Microsoft is after something else than just piracy. They are using the piracy fear to hide their other iniatives. One of them will be to use XP as a massive user feedback mechanism for raking in, not $$money, but *user profiles* for their company, ie spyware on steroids. This kind of information is hugely valuable.
 
Why would I want to have a pirated version of anything? That's illegal! Some author or company spent alot of time and energy creating it and should be re-imbursed for their efforts. If you don't want to pay for it, you don't need to have it, simple as that!
 
oops looked like 127, sorry

but yes, there is a network ID of 127, it is reserved for loopback and diagnostic funtions. I am taking Win2k Network Infrastuctrue, and I learned this in the TCP\IP Chapter
 
LMAO, this is funny... I don't think it is actually anything other than an update check or something...

BUT, you guys need to remeber that pings are not harmless and its easy to put info in a ping and keep track of it. An easy way of doing this is to run a quick algorithm on the OEM code, compress it and send the result in hex as the packet size of the ping. In that way, if you REALLY wanted to, you could keep statistical data on how many times certain codes have been used, and where they were... So theoretically you could find large, illeagal installations of the software.

Anyway, just more food for thought
 
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