Genuine Advantage is Microsoft spyware

[bambam]

Whilst using MS Update.

Thank goodness for that. I thought that the program that I had recommended
had done it.
So, have you turned off MS automatic updates?

 

[John Corliss]

Hell yea it does!
It can be defeated by turning off Automatic Updates, which MS has also made
frustrating. }:-()

Yep, that was one of the very first things I did to this system last
December when I put XP Home SP2 on it. I did this before I went online.

My final solution is to download XP Anti-Spy and select the "regserver32
DLL's" options at the very bottom of the screen. Works a treat.

I've been running that from the start. However, I only have the "Disable
ZIP functionality" checked. WGA doesn't start up in the tray on my
system for some reason. In fact, for some reason it doesn't call home at
all. Yesterday, I double-clicked on its executable (WgaTray.exe) and it
immediately tried to call home. I set a permanent firewall rule blocking
it, but will probably have to temporarily disable it to get critical
updates.

Who would have thought "XP Anit-Spy" would be literal some day? :-\

Ainiduhtroot.

--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc (who uses sock puppets)
for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware,
demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited
software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.

 

[Paul Blarmy]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:05:01 +1200, bambam wrote...

Thank goodness for that. I thought that the program that I had recommended
had done it.
So, have you turned off MS automatic updates?

Never had it turned on. I went to check manually for updates but I had
to let MS install some new ActiveX software first before it would even
show me the updates. I then chose NOT to install the WGA but by then it
was obviously too late.

 

[bambam]

Never had it turned on. I went to check manually for updates but I had
to let MS install some new ActiveX software first before it would even
show me the updates. I then chose NOT to install the WGA but by then
it was obviously too late.

Not a very nice feeling, when an organization that you have to trust for
updates, pulls a swifty like that though.