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[flowergardner]

I think my PC is infected with a trojan that opens up a menu looking exactly like Microsoft's activation request. It said I new to reactivate Windows because there has been a significant change to my hardware configuration. I clicked a couple of screens and got to the one that says my copy cannot be activated and to buy a legal copy of Windows. I got suspicious because this is the first time I am aware that Windows will suddenly ask for validation after years of service.

If I reboot my PC, I get a warning popup on the lower right that says Windows needs activation and I have three days left to do it. I recall from the past that true activation pops up this warning every minute or so but I am not getting this currently. Also legal activation popups usually say I have 30 days to activate.

I ran Malwarebytes and Spybot but they didn't find anything wrong. What should I do now?

[miekiemoes]

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I clicked a couple of screens and got to the one that says my copy cannot be activated and to buy a legal copy of Windows. I got suspicious because this is the first time I am aware that Windows will suddenly ask for validation after years of service.

Windows genuine notifications have been updated recently so that may explain why you are suddenly getting this.
Also see here: http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/2009/03/...ows-xp-pro.aspx
If you have a genuine version of Windows, then please contact Microsoft.
In case you don't have a genuine version of Windows, then get one