The truth about Windows Genuine Advantage
Is Microsoft tracking your daily whereabouts via its anti-piracy technology? Is it collecting information on which non-Microsoft apps you are running? Here's our attempt to separate fact from urban legend in the Genuine Advantage realm.
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How MS spyware could be used by hackers to disable systems
An anonymous Slashdot user gives virus writers a worrying idea: "A virus could use one of the 'Product-Key Changer' scripts ... to install a pirated product key on every infected computer (wiping all traces of the original key). This would render millions of genuine installations indistinguishable from pirated installations. What a mess for Microsoft! They would have to immediately 'kill forever' the WGA helper, and maybe even remove the WGA check on Windows Update. Such a virus would be a hard lesson to learn for the writers of all kinds of automated 'genuine' checks."
Read the article HERE.
How MS spyware could be used by hackers to disable systems
An anonymous Slashdot user gives virus writers a worrying idea: "A virus could use one of the 'Product-Key Changer' scripts ... to install a pirated product key on every infected computer (wiping all traces of the original key). This would render millions of genuine installations indistinguishable from pirated installations. What a mess for Microsoft! They would have to immediately 'kill forever' the WGA helper, and maybe even remove the WGA check on Windows Update. Such a virus would be a hard lesson to learn for the writers of all kinds of automated 'genuine' checks."
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