Re: [SLUG] Windows update

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Sun Sep 19 2004 - 11:26:51 EDT


Charles Marcak wrote:
> On a new installation of Windows Xp. First thing I try is to update. I
> get a message saying that MS wants $19.95 for a fix for security issues,
> pop ups etc. Let me get this striaght. I pay good money for a operating
> system that is touted to do everything except save the world. And then
> they have the nerve to say "Oh by the way, what you paid us for is broke
> and we need $19.95 to fix it. So it will work the way it was supposed to
> in the first place. Is this a scam to get a credit card number or is
> this for real?

That sounds like a scam -- or a very funny joke.
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