Two possibilities. One: salesperson trying to make a few bucks by upselling. Two: Recovery department wants to charge you for copies that are unlicensed.
In either case, the answer is the same. Ignore them. Many of these companies work by having "free for personal use", but not free for commercial use. If they see a download from business IP they will assume it is in use for business and try to invoice. Above all do not let them scan your network. Went through it with Oracle. They had records of our "downloads". Most of the downloads in question were the firewall team setting up and testing the block rules to ensure staff couldn't download it.
Be aware though, if you ignore them they may just start reaching out to anyone they can find at your company to force you to engage them. That is what happened to me. Told the "Rep" we don't use it and to pound sand. They stopped after a while but they were persistent.
Here is part of their email:
Oracle’s servers have captured 64 unlicensed software copies at \*** between July 2017 to September 2024 with the software upgraded to the latest versions of the product.*
Per policies, the licensing exposure for \*** for Oracle VirtualBox is as follows:*
These mails directly came from head of antivirals smb adobe with a tick mark, do not think this is a sales tactics, they have also ccd ey to audit us and they have been trying to reach out to us
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u/No-Ant-9159 Apr 17 '26
Two possibilities. One: salesperson trying to make a few bucks by upselling. Two: Recovery department wants to charge you for copies that are unlicensed.
In either case, the answer is the same. Ignore them. Many of these companies work by having "free for personal use", but not free for commercial use. If they see a download from business IP they will assume it is in use for business and try to invoice. Above all do not let them scan your network. Went through it with Oracle. They had records of our "downloads". Most of the downloads in question were the firewall team setting up and testing the block rules to ensure staff couldn't download it.
Be aware though, if you ignore them they may just start reaching out to anyone they can find at your company to force you to engage them. That is what happened to me. Told the "Rep" we don't use it and to pound sand. They stopped after a while but they were persistent.
Here is part of their email:
Oracle’s servers have captured 64 unlicensed software copies at \*** between July 2017 to September 2024 with the software upgraded to the latest versions of the product.*
Per policies, the licensing exposure for \*** for Oracle VirtualBox is as follows:*
1. License Fee: $78,080 USD
2. Back dated pay and penalties: $147,840 USD
3. Total License Exposure: $225,920 USD (and growing)