My uncle said Microsoft are going to be sending viruses out via Windows Updates, he said if you do not have a genuine computer and you validate it you may get a virus. He said someone from PC World told him.
I'm not exactly sure so don't go crazy, but just to tell you it may be true, maybe not.

Releasing viruses is a crime. If Microsoft sent one to every invalid Windows computer, the government would destroy them.

Of course, PC World would never want you to buy anything from their shop j/k

more likely a recent urban legend gone wild. a monster corporation with deep pockets won't even consider that idea as a corporate policy, even if unofficial. it's corporate suicide. there are much better ways to rout pirated windows out there, but this is not one of them, if the big bosses at microsoft have their wits still with them.

Then Microsoft would be contradicting themselves. <sarcasm>Of course it's not like Microsoft is big on viruses and such, seeing the many ways of how they try keeping all our computers safe. So surely they'd send out a virus (illegal) to everyone with invalidated Windows!</sarcasm>

Maybe it is an exaduration, they could send out (theoreticaly) a "virus" which is actually just a warning telling people they know they have pirated software and **Disactivating** it if that is leagle. Obviousily this could be stroon through word of mouth to be "MICROSOFT IS REALEASING A VIRUS"

Just my thoughts out loud

Ya I'm pretty sure that couldn't be true. They would really be ruinning themselves if they were to do so anyway. People might file a law suit but they could always make up an excuse as well and end up making more money from people having to buy the computer or just lose all their customers by having them switch to Macintosh. It could cause lots of problems.

Lol, you're kidding right? Microsoft losing all its customers to the Macintosh? I don't think that would happen even if they did make a farce releasing viruses. Anyway, Microsoft has enough trouble handling viruses affecting its giant base of source code, I don't think it would waste its time making them.

Without beating a dead horse, If Microsoft was to do this that $50 billion would go to 0 just like that and thus create a huge ripple in the Stock market that could in fact be bad enough to warrant a possible depression. Because then every tech stock would get affected and blah blah blah.

Now if they were smart about it, what I would do is going through the courts to make this legal for a 24 hour period, Were when a person turns on their computer with a illegal Windows OS it errors out on them and gives them a blue screen of death. Thats what I would do.