Windows Genuine Advantage, How to get rid of it!!!

[NeoMinds]

A few days ago I had some troubles with updating my windows due to the
famous windows genuine advantage. After checking for a couple of
minutes i found out that the browser is using an active-x control to
control this type of security. So in case you want to continue keeping
your windows software up-to-date just follow the next steps:

1. Open your browser and go to Tools --> Internet Options
2. Select the Programs tab and click on Manage Add-Ons
3. Look for the "Windows Genuine Advantage" plug-in and disable it
4. Close all your browser windows and startup the windows update
5. Now you are able to update everything again without being checked...

Richard
www.neominds.com.mx

 

[Jon]

Good tip, but that just disables it as an extension to internet explorer

The activex control would still be alive and kicking on your machine, and
could be utilised by any other program running

Jon

 

[Alias]

A few days ago I had some troubles with updating my windows due to the
famous windows genuine advantage. After checking for a couple of
minutes i found out that the browser is using an active-x control to
control this type of security. So in case you want to continue keeping
your windows software up-to-date just follow the next steps:

1. Open your browser and go to Tools --> Internet Options
2. Select the Programs tab and click on Manage Add-Ons
3. Look for the "Windows Genuine Advantage" plug-in and disable it
4. Close all your browser windows and startup the windows update
5. Now you are able to update everything again without being checked...

Richard
www.neominds.com.mx

For now but it probably won't work before the next update with the new
Genuine We Don't Trust Our PAYING Customers Disadvantage coming out.

This is one of the stupidest PR move MS has ever made.

 

[NeoMinds]

Yes but it does update your windows version, so you wont have security
matters. The best solution is to buy the windows key so you dont have
to do anything at all...

 

[Alias]

Yes but it does update your windows version, so you wont have security
matters. The best solution is to buy the windows key so you dont have
to do anything at all...

Being as you didn't include the message to which you are responding, it
can't be known who or what you're talking about. Many people with legit XPs
have been told by Genuine Windows Ripoff that their Windows are not legit so
what you say, well, isn't always true.

Alias

 

[Jon]

Why MS needs to know the name you give to your computer (and a currently
blank field for your username) when you validate (sent to
stats.update.microsoft.com) is also another mystery....

Jon

 

[kurttrail]

A few days ago I had some troubles with updating my windows due to the
famous windows genuine advantage. After checking for a couple of
minutes i found out that the browser is using an active-x control to
control this type of security. So in case you want to continue keeping
your windows software up-to-date just follow the next steps:

1. Open your browser and go to Tools --> Internet Options
2. Select the Programs tab and click on Manage Add-Ons
3. Look for the "Windows Genuine Advantage" plug-in and disable it
4. Close all your browser windows and startup the windows update
5. Now you are able to update everything again without being
checked...

Richard
www.neominds.com.mx

Start the process of moving to Linux. It will likely take you a while,
but eventually you won't have to deal with this kind sh*t technology
that has no real useful purpose for you.

MS doesn't give a rat's ass about its paying customers, and will
continue to keep screwing all of you that keep on paying them to do it.

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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[peterk]

Hackers Crack Genuine Advantage

The new anti-piracy program, Genuine Advantage, that Microsoft implemented
to scan computers to
determine if their copy of the OS is a legal one before allowing downloads,
has apparently
already been hacked. There's a simple JavaScript that can be pasted into the
address bar on the
browser before the system scan that will fool it into thinking the copy of
the OS on the system
is a genuine one. You can read more about it here:
http://www.wxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=050802TI-Genuine_Advantage
peterk

 

[NeoMinds]

Hackers Crack Genuine Advantage

The new anti-piracy program, Genuine Advantage, that Microsoft implemented
to scan computers to
determine if their copy of the OS is a legal one before allowing downloads,
has apparently
already been hacked. There's a simple JavaScript that can be pasted into the
address bar on the
browser before the system scan that will fool it into thinking the copy of
the OS on the system
is a genuine one. You can read more about it here:
http://www.wxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=050802TI-Genuine_Advantage
peterk

Peter, that is not a hack, it is just a javascript that does the same
thing as I explained in the top message how to disable this active-x
plugin but it is for people who dont know how to follow those steps.

But anyway as i said before just buy the windows key, it is not that
expensive and you have much more fun with it...


Richard
www.neominds.com.mx

 

[kurttrail]

Peter, that is not a hack, it is just a javascript that does the same
thing as I explained in the top message how to disable this active-x
plugin but it is for people who dont know how to follow those steps.

But anyway as i said before just buy the windows key, it is not that
expensive and you have much more fun with it...


Richard
www.neominds.com.mx

Why the F*#K should anyone buy anything more from MS?

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Kurt
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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[Jon]

Why bother with it at all?

Just set your windows update settings to notify rather than install and then
download the
updates from the Windows Catalogue - no need for validation

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog/en/default.asp

Jon

 

[Alias]

But anyway as i said before just buy the windows key, it is not that
expensive and you have much more fun with it...


Richard

Only the most expensive thing on most people's PCs.

Alias

 

[SP Goodman]

Only the most expensive thing on most people's PCs.

Why, are you using a $50 monitor or something?

 

[Alias]

Why, are you using a $50 monitor or something?

Retail XP Home Upgrade in Spain (where I live) goes for $USD 375.48 so, no,
I am not using a $50 monitor. In fact, I have a TFT monitor that cost less
than Retail XP Home Upgrade. Full retail is not available anywhere at any
price here.

That said, my OEM XP Pro is cheaper than my monitor (but the same price as a
CRT monitor, USD$150), which is the reason I wrote, "***most*** people's
PC".

Alias

 

[SP Goodman]

Retail XP Home Upgrade in Spain (where I live) goes for $USD 375.48 so,
no, I am not using a $50 monitor. In fact, I have a TFT monitor that cost
less than Retail XP Home Upgrade. Full retail is not available anywhere at
any price here.

Wow, and I thought the UK had criminal overpricing on imports as a part of
the economy!

 

[Guest]

I tend to agree with SP Goodman's thoughts.

I reject the notion that a program that has already been vetted by the
activation process needs to be re-verified. Every statement I see coming out
of them is such a shameless collection of lies you'd think it came from a
politician. Benefits, advantages, proetection, my rear end. Each sentence
that has come out of their weasel-faced lawyers and managers has been a
bigger, slimier lie than the last.

This is going to cause people to stop patching. When that happens and the
next major vulerability in their amatuer-hour kernel code pops up, it will
run rampant on these unpatched machines.

It will be then be free to spread endlessly into corporate and government
computers because it will have a now-limitless supply of unpatched machines
to draw upon. In the middle of an ongoing struggle against a dangerous
Islamist insurgency, Microsoft is undercutting the security efforts of
governments and companies everywhere. Isn't giving aid and comfort to your
country's enemies in time of war treason? Their self-centered greed is
putting this country at risk, and the executives responsible for this charade
should be shipped off to the brig for trial by military tribunal if it is
ever shown that they aided or abetted terrorism by their actions. I'll bet
there'd be no lack of volunteers for that firing squad.

Their actions show such an intense ignorance of what is going on in the
world that it is scarcely believable that they were designed by creatures
that walk upright. You think they may have ventured in to that whole Dr.
Moreau thing? Maybe they have crafted a lawyerweasel or a vpchimp to come up
with things like this.

 

[Guest]

My bad. This nearly incomprehensible UI led me to reply to the wrong poster.
THis should have been in reply to kurttrail.

I don't think they ever bothered to test this on a notebook. You can either
see the message or you can see the thread, but not both. Cool design, I
wonder why no one else uses it. ;-)

 

[Donald L McDaniel]

My bad. This nearly incomprehensible UI led me to reply to the wrong poster.
THis should have been in reply to kurttrail.

Doesn't it really make you feel like a prime fool when you verbally abuse
the wrong person? I mean, verbally abusing ANYONE should make you feel
like cold, hard s**t. Trying to blame your faux pas on an OS or program
and their creators is even worse than your trying to blame all the ills of
the world on corporations.


Donald L McDaniel
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[Joseph Hume]

A few days ago I had some troubles with updating my windows due to the
famous windows genuine advantage. After checking for a couple of
minutes i found out that the browser is using an active-x control to
control this type of security. So in case you want to continue keeping
your windows software up-to-date just follow the next steps:

1. Open your browser and go to Tools --> Internet Options
2. Select the Programs tab and click on Manage Add-Ons
3. Look for the "Windows Genuine Advantage" plug-in and disable it
4. Close all your browser windows and startup the windows update
5. Now you are able to update everything again without being checked...

Richard
www.neominds.com.mx

Hi

I prefer the more direct approach...

regsvr32 /u "%systemroot%\system32\legitcheckcontrol.dll"

Joseph

 

[Glen]

Great no microsuck will fix this so none of usd can update our computers.
You should keep thease workaounds quiet.