Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations

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kurttrail said:
Tom Willett wrote:




LOL! Instead of phoning home every day, MS is changing it to every 14
days!

Whoopy-do!
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Now that the CIA has a real spymeister as its Director, maybe
Microsoft has to make good at being a legal, US Monopoly, as
sanctioned by Bush and friends. Reports at 14-day intervals
make for easier analysis of snooping. Perhaps a kind of payback
for the lackadaisical enforcement of the consent decree by DoJ?

Besides, what kind of spin is this?

"Microsoft said the phone-in feature is to check for updates and
is a kind of safety feature in case Microsoft has to suddenly disable
the program. The latter scenario would occur if the program, for
example, started to report pirated versions of Windows XP on computers
that had legitimate copies. No other information is passed on to
Microsoft through this feature, the company said."

There are already a number of false negatives, countered by
MGADiag.exe.
 
Yeah, stick to comments about the mechanics of posting, if you have nothing
else to add.

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Oddly enough it's quite simple to stop the Genuine advantage from writing to
memory at boot time as well as calling home when it does so. Both I've done
without any negative affects what so ever, and it's simple. Done through my
firewall program. TTFN.
 
The Unknown P said:
Oddly enough it's quite simple to stop the Genuine advantage from writing
to
memory at boot time as well as calling home when it does so. Both I've
done
without any negative affects what so ever, and it's simple. Done through
my
firewall program. TTFN.
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Do you go in and get updates or leave it blocked all the time????

Antioch
 
LOL :) Yeah Right!!


POP said:
If you want the real story, go to MS and read it there. Never, ever rely
on the media for an accurate account of anything, not even quotes! All
media links are good for are to tell you what to look for at the horse's
mouth (or whichever end).

Pop
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Paranoid people should not use computers, credit cards, telephones, or store
discount cards to name a few.
 
HeyBub said:
Yes. They were caught by surprise in the vast number of priated copies
reporting in. The volume of data no doubt overwhelmed the poor folks.

By off-loading some of the work to the client computers -- so called
"distributed processing" -- the analysts at Micros~1 can concentrate
on big trends and not be buried in the details.
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Source? Or are you dabbling in Fairy Tales?

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How long until someone writes some code to spam their servers with millions
of requests to validate bogus software?
 
POP said:
If you want the real story, go to MS and read it there.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, I'm sure MS has paid for the best marketing talent
to make up a nice bed time story.

WGA and the Three Billion Pirates.
Never,
ever rely on the media for an accurate account of anything, not
even quotes!
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Who needs the media, when it is quite clear that MS is the largest
distributor of spy/malware on the planet Earth?

Beta software that is absolutely no use to the security of the End User,
disguised as a security high priority update, that phones home to MS.

So when is the MSkeystroke Logger coming to Microsoft Update?
All media links are good for are to tell you what
to look for at the horse's mouth (or whichever end).
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I'm sure you are at the opposite end of the digestive tract from MS's
mouth.

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Kurt Kirsch
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"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
 
Who needs the media, when it is quite clear that MS is the largest
distributor of spy/malware on the planet Earth?

Beta software that is absolutely no use to the security of the End User,
disguised as a security high priority update, that phones home to MS.

So when is the MSkeystroke Logger coming to Microsoft Update?
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It already is... The software "Compares user input".
 
Ghostrider said:
Now that the CIA has a real spymeister as its Director, maybe
Microsoft has to make good at being a legal, US Monopoly, as
sanctioned by Bush and friends. Reports at 14-day intervals
make for easier analysis of snooping. Perhaps a kind of payback
for the lackadaisical enforcement of the consent decree by DoJ?

Besides, what kind of spin is this?

"Microsoft said the phone-in feature is to check for updates and
is a kind of safety feature in case Microsoft has to suddenly disable
the program. The latter scenario would occur if the program, for
example, started to report pirated versions of Windows XP on computers
that had legitimate copies. No other information is passed on to
Microsoft through this feature, the company said."

There are already a number of false negatives, countered by
MGADiag.exe.
Click to expand...

And not one report of MS disabling WGA remotely.

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http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
 
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