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  Hi Dan,
  
  Would you point me to a few of the posts where you are seeing this? We want to get a handle on this if it is an ongoing issue.
  
  Darin

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  Monday, August 25, 2008 8:33 PM
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  Hi Dan,
  
  Thank you for your message. I will certainly pass this along and look into this situation as far as I can. Do you have any specific posts I can review as a trend? Security issues can be tough to track down and classify. Stephen has noticed the occurance of the unknown license types lately too.
  
  To answer your question, I'm not sure if  that is the specific behavior, however I wouldn't rule it out either. Like yourself, I have a very limited information to go on and need to review these trends further, perhaps more in depth too.
  
  Rick, MS

  Monday, August 25, 2008 8:36 PM
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  Hi Darin and Rick,
  
  Here are some recent posts:
  
  http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/genuinewindowsxp/thread/15a8424a-a81c-4a19-b01f-6b4cdb62075f
  
  http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/genuinewindowsxp/thread/0f5acccf-4af0-4e4a-a96a-eab087cb4b9b
  
  http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/genuinewindowsxp/thread/758483e1-8cdb-45c3-b463-d33aa5391af3
  
  http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/genuinewindowsxp/thread/0bdfdfd1-b9c7-40a6-a7a0-1557074710fe
  
  http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/genuinewindowsxp/thread/cadda449-b4c4-454a-b305-8d0c4ae147e8
  
  http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/genuinevista/thread/445b2569-4103-486e-add8-8e3f3fac90ad
  
  
  They all seem to have two things in common:  (1) the poster reporting a virus or malware attack, and (2) alteration of the PID and/or the Windows License Type as reported in the mgadiag report.
  
  The malware could be harvesting product keys, or maybe just targeting files that, when tampered with or corrupted, will create the nuisance for the owner of an instance of nongenuine software.

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  Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:11 AM
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   Hi Dan,
  
  Thank you for the information. We will look into this further. I appreciate your time and assistance.
  
  Rick, MS

  Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:04 PM
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  I had a similar problem, Dan probably missed it.  The only thing that woked for me was to format and re-install.
  anyway, here's the link to my thread, which would seem to apply to this thread.
  http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/genuinewindowsxp/thread/49770dbd-4fe9-4e7b-895c-fb82fdc0ca58

  Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:10 PM
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  Timmyyy,
  
  Thank you for your post. I have included your post in my analysis along with the other posts identified.
  
  Respectfully,
  
  Rick

  Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:38 PM
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  http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/genuinewindowsxp/thread/03cf179c-6eee-477f-80e2-553f21ac96d3
  
  I guess im on this list too, ill be updating my output on the post when I get home from work.
  

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  Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:24 PM
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  H2490,
  
  Thank you too for your post. I did pick your post up and added it earlier this morning to my analysis. I appreciate your attention here to the WGA forum.
  
  Respectfully,
  
  Rick, MS

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  Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:21 PM