A shadowy “driver archive” site, one of those that looks like it was coded in 1998 and never updated. Bright green download button: “osppsvc.exe (64-bit) – genuine Microsoft signature.” File size: 312 KB. Legitimate osppsvc.exe from a real Office install is around 80 KB.

a forum post from 2019, buried under SEO spam. A user named HexNut wrote: “OSPPsvc.exe 64-bit is not distributed alone. It’s part of Office C2R. But if your license handler is corrupted, grab the standalone from MS’s deprecated servers using this direct link.” The link was dead. Of course.

He posted it on Reddit. Within an hour, someone commented: “But my friend sent me a link. It says ‘osppsvc.exe download 64 bit – fast and safe.’”