Microsoft employee blasts 'fake' service pack
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
A Microsoft employee has warned against downloading an unauthorized version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 that has surfaced on a popular Web site that provides software patches.
On a Microsoft user newsgroup posting last week, Mike Brannigan, an enterprise strategy and senior consultant at Microsoft, told users that downloading an unofficial version of Windows XP SP3 provided on The Hotfix.net would likely harm their computer and put them "out of support from Microsoft or an OEM" because it is not an official Microsoft package.