IS there any danger in lending out my windows xp installation cd?
I have a dell computer and someone wants to borrow the windows xp installation cd. Hypothetically is there some way that person could use the cd to attack my computer from another computer? Let me know what is the worst case scenario.
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Ok, worst case scenario:
1. Someone loses your CD and you don’t get it back.
2. Someone "loans" this to "someone else" and you don’t get it back.
3. You get it back, but it’s damaged and now you can’t use it.
4. Whoever you loan it to tries to run it by Microsoft and gets caught with it. Not only will he/she be in trouble, but you also.
5. It is no good to anyone else – even with your product key code.
6. Microsoft considers this illegal or pirating. They don’t know that you aren’t trying to make money off of "loaning" your CD.
No one can use this CD to "attack" your computer from a different computer. That only happens in the movies.
Software piracy stuff aside…No risk really. I would not give out your product key, since then there would be two or more instances of windows running on the same key and one would be invalid (which one is the real copy). Otherwise if they just need to reinstall their OS, there’s no worries.
Worse case is that it doesn’t install. I have used other CD’s to install on various machines. As long as you have the product key most OEM’s will install on other machines. Where you would run into problems is if you are trying to validate the same key on both machines.
I think microsoft will not activate the second installition.But im not 100% sure on that.
If you give out your Windows XP pro and the person has the key on the CD, they will use the key on the CD package, you will not pass the WGA, (Windows Genuine Advantage), test and your platform will be considered as stolen by Microsoft. You will be getting a pop-up from Microsoft advising you to purchase a key. Or that your platform is not valid.
You will not be able to donwload any software from Microsoft.
My advise is not to give out your XP installation CD. Only if you make sure that the key is not available to the person that you are giving it to. And I fail to understand what they are going to do with your XP Platform as it will be considered stolen when they try to install in their system.
This in itself will have a major impact on your system, being Microsoft has your system informaton and our IP that is registered to the key on your XP platform Cd.
Please excuse my English, not my primary language.
Mind Doctor, France