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Windows Defender License Terms

MICROSOFT PRE-RELEASE SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS

MICROSOFT WINDOWS DEFENDER BETA 2 SOFTWARE FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000, WINDOWS XP, AND WINDOWS SERVER 2003

These license terms are an agreement between Microsoft Corporation (or based on where you live, one of its affiliates) and you. Please read them. They apply to the pre-release software named above, which includes the media on which you received it, if any. The terms also apply to any Microsoft:

• updates,
• supplements,
• Internet-based services, and
• support services (if any)

for this software, unless other terms accompany those items. If so, those terms apply.

By using the software, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the software.

As described below, using some features also operates as your consent to the transmission of certain standard computer information for Internet-based services.

1. USE RIGHTS. If you comply with this agreement, you have the right to install and use one copy of the software on your computer until December 31, 2006, or until the date we release a commercial version of the software, whichever date is first.
2. TIME-SENSITIVE SOFTWARE. The software will stop running on December 31, 2006. You will not receive any other notice. You will not receive any further updates when the software stops running.
3. PRE-RELEASE SOFTWARE. This software is a pre-release version. It will not work the way a final version of the software will. We may change it for the final, commercial version. We also may not release a commercial version of the software.
4. POTENTIALLY UNWANTED SOFTWARE. The software will search your computer for "spyware," "adware" and other potentially unwanted software ("Potentially Unwanted Software"). If it finds Potentially Unwanted Software, the software will ask you if you want to ignore, disable (quarantine) or remove it. The software will only remove or disable Potentially Unwanted Software as you instruct it. Removing or disabling the Potentially Unwanted Software may cause other software on your computer to stop working, and it may cause you to breach a license to use other software on your computer, if the other software installed the Potentially Unwanted Software on your computer as a condition of your use of the other software. You should read the license agreements for other software before authorizing the removal of any Potentially Unwanted Software. By using this software, it is possible that you will also remove or disable software that is not Potentially Unwanted Software. You are solely responsible for selecting which Potentially Unwanted Software the software removes or disables.
5. FEEDBACK. If you give feedback about the software to Microsoft, you give to Microsoft, without charge, the right to use, share and commercialize your feedback in any way and for any purpose. You also give to third parties, without charge, any patent rights necessary for their products, technologies and services to use or interface with any specific parts of a Microsoft software and service that includes the feedback. You will not give feedback that is subject to a license that requires Microsoft to license its software or documentation to third parties because we include your feedback in them. These rights survive this agreement.
6. SCOPE OF LICENSE. The software is licensed, not sold. The software is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties. This agreement only gives you some rights to use the software. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in this agreement. In doing so, you must comply with technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways. You may not:
   • work around the technical limitations in the software;
   • reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software or the Potentially Unwanted Software definitions that work with the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite this limitation;
   • use the Potentially Unwanted Software definitions separately from the software;
   • make more copies of the software than specified in this agreement or allowed by applicable law, despite this limitation;
   • publish the software for others to copy;
   • distribute the software to any third party;
   • rent, lease or lend the software;
   • transfer the software or this agreement to any third party; or
   • use the software to provide commercial software hosting services.
7. INTERNET-BASED SERVICES. Microsoft provides Internet-based services with the software. It may change or cancel them at any time.
1. Consent for Internet-based Services. The software features described below connect to Microsoft or service provider computer systems over the Internet. In some cases, you will not receive a separate notice when they connect. You may switch off these features or not use them. For more information about these features, see the software documentation. By using these features, you consent to the transmission of the information described below. Microsoft does not use this information to identify or contact you.
2. Updated Definition Files. When you install the software, or when you use the software, you may choose to obtain updated Potentially Unwanted Software definitions automatically when you connect to the Internet. The software uses the updated definitions to detect new Potentially Unwanted Software.
3. Spynet. When you install the software, or when you use the software, you may choose to share information about Potentially Unwanted Software and their signatures with SpyNet. SpyNet is a network community that connects users of the software together to identify and share information about Potentially Unwanted Software. This community reports potential threats identified by features in the software to the SpyNet servers that catalog and update the system to help protect users of the software from new spyware threats.
4. Misuse of Internet-based Services. You may not use these services in any way that could harm them or impair anyone else's use of them. You may not use these services to try to gain unauthorized access to any service, materials, account or network by any means.
8. SUPPORT SERVICES. Because this software is "as is," we may not provide support services for it.
9. EXPORT RESTRICTIONS. The software is subject to U.S. export laws and regulations. You must comply with all domestic and international export laws and regulations that apply to the software. These laws include restrictions on destinations, end users and end use. For additional information, see www.microsoft.com/exporting .
10. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. THE SOFTWARE IS LICENSED "AS-IS." YOU BEAR THE RISK OF USING IT. MICROSOFT GIVES NO EXPRESS WARRANTIES, GUARANTEES OR CONDITIONS. YOU MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL CONSUMER RIGHTS UNDER YOUR LOCAL LAWS THAT THIS AGREEMENT CANNOT CHANGE. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER YOUR LOCAL LAWS, MICROSOFT EXCLUDES THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
11. LIMITATION ON AND EXCLUSION OF DAMAGES. MICROSOFT'S LIABILITY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS LIMITED. YOU CAN RECOVER FROM MICROSOFT AND ITS SUPPLIERS ONLY DIRECT DAMAGES UP TO U.S. $5.00. YOU CANNOT RECOVER ANY OTHER DAMAGES, INCLUDING CONSEQUENTIAL, LOST PROFITS, SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES. THIS LIMITATION APPLIES TO:
    • ANYTHING RELATED TO THE SOFTWARE, SERVICES, CONTENT (INCLUDING CODE) ON THIRD PARTY INTERNET SITES, OR THIRD PARTY PROGRAMS, AND
    • CLAIMS FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY, GUARANTEE OR CONDITION, STRICT LIABILITY, NEGLIGENCE, OR OTHER TORT TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

    IT ALSO APPLIES EVEN IF MICROSOFT KNEW OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF THE DAMAGES. THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU BECAUSE YOUR COUNTRY MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES.

12. LEGAL EFFECT. This agreement describes certain legal rights. You may have other rights under the laws of your country. You may also have rights with respect to the party from whom you acquired the software. This agreement does not change your rights under the laws of your country if the laws of your country do not permit it to do so.
13. APPLICABLE LAW.
    1. United States. If you acquired the software in the United States, Washington state law governs the interpretation of this agreement and applies to claims for breach of it, regardless of conflict of laws principles. The laws of the state where you live govern all other claims, including claims under state consumer protection laws, unfair competition laws, and in tort.
    2. Outside the United States. If you acquired the software in any other country, the laws of that country apply.
14. ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This agreement and any amendments to it, and the terms for supplements, updates, Internet-based services and support services are the entire agreement for the software and support services.

Please note: As this software is distributed in Quebec, Canada, some of the clauses in this agreement are provided below in French.

Remarque: Ce logiciel Θtant distribuΘ au QuΘbec, Canada, certaines des clauses dans ce contrat sont fournies ci-dessous en franτais.

EXON╔RATION DE GARANTIE. Le logiciel visΘ par une licence est offert " tel quel ". Toute utilisation de ce logiciel est α votre seule risque et pΘril. Microsoft n'accorde aucune garantie ou condition expresse. Vous pouvez disposer de droits de consommateur additionnels que vous confΘrent vos lois locales, que la prΘsente licence ne peut modifier. Dans la mesure permise par vos lois locales, les garanties implicites de qualitΘ marchande, d'adaptation α un usage particulier et d'absence de contrefaτon sont exclues.

LIMITATION DES DOMMAGES-INT╔R╩TS ET EXCLUSION DE RESPONSABILIT╔ POUR LES DOMMAGES. Vous pouvez obtenir de Microsoft et de ses fournisseurs une indemnisation en cas de dommages directs uniquement α hauteur de 5,00 $ US. Vous ne pouvez prΘtendre α aucune indemnisation pour les autres dommages, y compris les dommages spΘciaux, indirects ou accessoires et pertes de bΘnΘfices.

Cette limitation concerne:

• TOUTE MATI╚RE RELI╔E AU LOGICIEL, AUX SERVICES OU AU CONTENU (Y COMPRIS LE CODE) FIGURANT SUR DES SITES INTERNET D'UNE TI╚RCE PARTIE OU DANS DES PROGRAMMES D'UNE TI╚RCE PARTIE, ET
• LES R╔CLAMATIONS AU TITRE DE VIOLATION DE CONTRAT OU DE GARANTIE, OU AU TITRE DE RESPONSABILIT╔ STRICTE, DE N╔GLIGENCE OU D'UNE AUTRE FAUTE DANS LA LIMITE AUTORIS╔E PAR LA LOI EN VIGUEUR.

Elle s'applique Θgalement, mΩme si Microsoft connaissait ou devrait connaεtre l'ΘventualitΘ d'un tel dommage.

Si votre pays n'autorise pas l'exclusion ou la limitation de responsabilitΘ pour les dommages indirects, accessoires ou de quelque nature que ce soit, il se peut que la limitation ou l'exclusion ci-dessus ne s'appliquera pas α votre Θgard.

EFFET JURIDIQUE. Le prΘsent contrat dΘcrit certains droits juridiques. Vous pourriez avoir d'autres droits prΘvus par les lois de votre pays. Le prΘsent contrat ne modifie pas les droits que vous confΦrent les lois de votre pays si celles ci ne le permettent pas.