You do not need to use RemoveWAT unless that loader didn't work for you. Since you're activated already you're done. Just set your Windows Upate to Manual and Don't download KB971033.
Thanks Mate... Yeah KB971033 is definate no no... Thanks people for your hard work, it's really appreciated.
removed or not () Hazar thank you so much for generating the tool and maintaining the forum. I use the Remove WAT with win 7 64bit and all seems fine.... to make sure all is good i got "MGADiag" from ms. under Windows tab: Validation Status: Genuine Validation Code: 0 Cached Validation Code: N/A, hr = 0xc004f012 Windows Product Key: *****-*****-GJY49-VJBQ7-HYRR2 but under Licensing i notice the next info: license status: Initial grace period Time remaining: 19days remaining windows rearm count:3 do i have a problems? is that mean w7 is not gonna work in 19 days? thx
hello firstly thanks so much for this great solution. it's been working in a lot of my friends' computers. I heard from one of my friends that the latest update to Microsoft Security Essentials detects RemoveWAT and lists the windows as non-genuine. Has anyone else experienced this problem? I am avoiding the update at the moment.
EDIT: same as artix above Is RemoveWAT failing for other people with today's update? The MSE Update is reporting invalid status in my VM and laptop, saying it will shutdown in 30 days. The rest of the system seems fine, however if MSE knows, it will only be a matter of time. I think I updated with KB1033 in my VM, but I haven't with one of my laptops, and it is showing the same dialog box.
Me too, Filip. I still can't download it since a week ago. So, I downloaded the tool from another source.
Yes, RWAT fails at this update. Also Chew 0.9. Seems like they used the MSE-Update as a backdoor to put the unliked KB971033 on the system. Or parts of it, maybe. Do yourself a favor and deinstall MSE for now and place another AV solution on your deck. Until this is solved. I did so - and by now i experienced no nags or invalid status dialog boxes.
Interesting, I haven't installed the updates yet on my desktop (that doesn't have MSE installed, so should be OK), and today's updates are working fine with another laptop with SLIC2.1, no probs there. I'm just wondering if it is just MSE reporting invalid, or if it will spread to the rest of the system soon. I'm going to try remove MSE from the other laptop and VM now, and replace with something else, probably avira like my desktop.
I believe it was tpday's MSE update KB972696. Just removed MSE from the affected laptop, replaced with Avira and no nag screens as of yet, fingers crossed. Main desktop that is running Avira and was never running MSE has no nag screens as of yet. I will play around with the VM later, see what happens. I know that definitely has the evil KB1033 and MSE installed. This netbook has MSE installed but with a hacked SLIC2.1, and so far no ill effects, so irrelevant for this thread.
I know about KB971033, just uninstalled that. Don't know how it got installed, but it seems like the guys are talking bout another update?
It's not safe to use coz it uses patched dll from rtm, btw update to final version of windows 7 and forget about rc
Much appreciated. Just came across the post about the use of pre RTM Edited to add: It seems the RTM torrents pointed to by Hazar in the post are no longer hosted.
Many Thanx just used on build 7600 after getting caught with the KB971033 update, no more nags, no watermark, I have turned off updates for the moment