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Windows Genuine Advantage: Spyware or legitimate tool?
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Wed Sep 09 08:26:22 2009
Windows Genuine Advantage: Spyware or legitimate tool?
By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
September 8th, 2009
Last week Microsoft was sued in a Washington district court for
allegedly violating privacy laws through its use of Windows Genuine
Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy mechanism in Windows XP. Is WGA a legitimate
anti-piracy tool or is it spyware?
This latest class-action lawsuit (it’s not the first to target WGA)
claims that Microsoft made false claims regarding what information WGA
would send to verify the authenticity of a Windows installation.
Specifically, the lawsuit highlights that Microsoft claims that no
personal information is sent during validation, while in fact WGA is
said to provide information on the user’s IP address and other details
that could be used to trace the user.
For rest of the article, see:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=5369
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