Does OEM VS 2008 for $99 sounds legal and correct
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Hey Friends Found many websites which are offering VS 2008 Professional Edition for $99.00 and they say they will give a link and a serial key. And they say it is really cheap as it is OEM version and does not come with Manual , CD etc. Can it be possible? Would it be another pirated copy or something like that? One of such offers below http://download-journal.com/shop/item/57/?cpn=switchfoot_oem[^] Regards
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Hey Friends Found many websites which are offering VS 2008 Professional Edition for $99.00 and they say they will give a link and a serial key. And they say it is really cheap as it is OEM version and does not come with Manual , CD etc. Can it be possible? Would it be another pirated copy or something like that? One of such offers below http://download-journal.com/shop/item/57/?cpn=switchfoot_oem[^] Regards
Sounds pretty fishy to me. The domain is based in Malaysia, which I'm given to understand is a mecca for pirated software and media. :suss: /ravi
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Hey Friends Found many websites which are offering VS 2008 Professional Edition for $99.00 and they say they will give a link and a serial key. And they say it is really cheap as it is OEM version and does not come with Manual , CD etc. Can it be possible? Would it be another pirated copy or something like that? One of such offers below http://download-journal.com/shop/item/57/?cpn=switchfoot_oem[^] Regards
Run away, very fast! :) I recognize that web page format VERY well. They've been around for a while. IMHO, if you buy anything from one of those sites (they change domain names every few months), then the least of your problems would be if you get some pirated software! :) Let's see, they would have: o Your credit card number o Your home address o Your email Imagine: Having your full legal name, address, and email! ANY spammer or phisher with HALF A BRAIN (thank goodness there aren't many!) can likely do! :omg: Hmm, Dear FirstName LastName of Adddress: This is: Bank Of America Paypal Ebay Amazon.com ... ... ... Trust me, it can be very hard to tell a phisher email that has your real full first name, last name, and address! Hopefully, you at least know how to look at the headers. Thankfully, my web-based email also shows me the real URL in the status line. I know how good some of those phisher emails can be! I'm one of the MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY people that had their info stolen from Monster.com. While, Monster.com did *nothing* because the ******** execs where too busy trying to scam a real business into buying that POS company. That was over 7 years ago. Still, every now and then, I still get very hard to detect phisher emails. PLUS, recently, some ?overseas organized crime? outfit has gotten into it. I've gotten phising emails that had the real, regular 100% normal ebay.com SENDING IP address listed! Thankfully, I don't sell anything on ebay. Ebay, just replies with their form letter "Thanks". I have a separate email address for my monster.com email. So, I know what email address the spam was sent to - like the very good ebay phising emails that I've received. Opps, back to the original question. :) Always do a whois on the domain! e.g. http://whois.domaintools.com/download-journal.com[^] Created: 2009-06-15 Also, if you ever buy something with a credit card from an "unknown place" (*I* only trust amazon and paypal with my CC info), then use a "Virtual Credit Card number", or a "Safe shopping" credit card number that expires in some short time and can be used only with that one company! CitiBank has Virtual numbers. Mine always expire at the end of that month. It may be because of the credit card type?
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Hey Friends Found many websites which are offering VS 2008 Professional Edition for $99.00 and they say they will give a link and a serial key. And they say it is really cheap as it is OEM version and does not come with Manual , CD etc. Can it be possible? Would it be another pirated copy or something like that? One of such offers below http://download-journal.com/shop/item/57/?cpn=switchfoot_oem[^] Regards
AFAIK Oem edition comes with a CD.
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Hey Friends Found many websites which are offering VS 2008 Professional Edition for $99.00 and they say they will give a link and a serial key. And they say it is really cheap as it is OEM version and does not come with Manual , CD etc. Can it be possible? Would it be another pirated copy or something like that? One of such offers below http://download-journal.com/shop/item/57/?cpn=switchfoot_oem[^] Regards
Hey Friends Thanks a lot, the offers were really tempting :-). Thanks to all of you guys, i can'nt imagine where i could have ended by giving them money and personnal details. Internet is really strange place, these guys get credit card processing functionality and are every where on internet. Regards
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Hey Friends Found many websites which are offering VS 2008 Professional Edition for $99.00 and they say they will give a link and a serial key. And they say it is really cheap as it is OEM version and does not come with Manual , CD etc. Can it be possible? Would it be another pirated copy or something like that? One of such offers below http://download-journal.com/shop/item/57/?cpn=switchfoot_oem[^] Regards
Avira won't even let Firefox download their web pages. :laugh:
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Hey Friends Found many websites which are offering VS 2008 Professional Edition for $99.00 and they say they will give a link and a serial key. And they say it is really cheap as it is OEM version and does not come with Manual , CD etc. Can it be possible? Would it be another pirated copy or something like that? One of such offers below http://download-journal.com/shop/item/57/?cpn=switchfoot_oem[^] Regards
Cute. There no such thing as an "OEM version" of Visual Studio.
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Cute. There no such thing as an "OEM version" of Visual Studio.
A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^]
Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007, 2008
But no longer in 2009...Dave I almost fainted to hear that. Regards