David, I had a similar situation on my wife's computer running Win 7 Home Premium. It also appeared after installing the latest round of updates. I hesitated to follow the link the pop-up provided for fear of a virus. However, after doing some searching I was lead to the same page and running the software I was "pronounced" legitimate. Anyway, don't think it was due to your drive being cloned. I believe Microsoft occasionally updates its database of keys resulting in some false positives. Just an FYI for others this may happen to. Jerry On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:57 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Last week, when I downloaded and installed updates on one of my > netbooks. I got a strange pop-up, apparently outside Windows update, > warning me that I might be a victim of pirates and telling me to > download and run some kind of Windows activation program to verify that > my copy of Windows waslegitimate. > My first thought was that there couldn't possibly be an issue, that > that machine is running the version of Windows that came with it. It's > the only computer I've ever had running Windows 7 Starter, > As I thought about it, though, I realized that while it was he > original copy of Windows, it wasn't on the original drive. I had, at > least 6 months previously, cloned the original 320GB hard drive (much > less than full!) to a 256GB SD, which is what's in the netbook now, and > reformatted the 320GB drive for use in my wife's MacBook, replacing its > original 80GB (or was it 120?) drive. > Maybe Windows had finally gotten around to detecting the drive > swap.... Meanwhile, I had downloaded and launched the software they > called for. and after half an hour or so of doing nothing particularly > visible, it pronounced itself satisfied that my Windows installation was > legitimate. > > David Gillett > CISSP CCNP > > > PCSOFT's List Owners: > Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> > Mark Rode<[log in to unmask]> > PCSOFT's List Owners: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Mark Rode<[log in to unmask]>