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Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations | |
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| Time: 06:01 EST/11:01 GMT | News Source: Techtree | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Microsoft has changed a feature found in its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) software after receiving complaints about the program's daily check-ins with the company's servers. Now, the tool will dial home in 14-day intervals instead of after every system boot. The frequency of the tool's contact with Microsoft was initially reported by Lauren Weinstein, cofounder of People for Internet Responsibility, who posted his findings on a blog and compared the tool to spyware. Weinstein noticed that even on Windows XP systems that WGA already had verified as legitimate, the tool will attempt to contact Microsoft every time the PC is booted. | ||
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| #1 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/13/2006 1:11:59 PM |
| MS: "Yes, we know it looks and quacks like a duck, but believe us it's no duck. And just to make sure you don't believe it's a duck, we'll make changes to its feathers, bill and webbed feet. Nope, no duck here." |
| #2 By 8241 (206.210.98.95) at 6/13/2006 1:23:23 PM |
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VILLAGER #1:
If... she... weighs... the same as a duck,... she's made of wood. BEDEVERE: And therefore? VILLAGER #2: A witch! |
| #3 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 6/13/2006 3:47:13 PM |
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I believe the default interval for Firefox to call home and check for updates is 1 day.
They must be EVIL!!!! |
| #4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/13/2006 3:58:13 PM |
| #3: If you want to change that Firefox setting, then change it. Where do I change it in WGA again? |
| #5 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 6/13/2006 5:17:40 PM |
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Yes, even the most ardent Microsoft supporters among us were at least confounded by WGA - I mean, once activated and once validated - ok, enough.... that was followed up with a seemingly unending string of updates to WGA and re-validations out the kazoo and with no real information as to what was changing "specifically" or why.
On some machines it was taking place with a weird regularity and one had to fight, wrestle and beg the machine to install the next version - resorting to manual installations, etc... I mean, once the COM client control was trusted and a system validated, the software should see the stored validation and just give the user the software... or... pull the software and stop offering downloads, etc... I have purchased so many full boxed retail versions of their software and have only a small portion installed - I am just vexed by this entire matter. God help us all under Vista when we use a hybrid drive with flash memory and we upgrade the flash memory and we have to start calling on the phone [speculation, but I can see it happening to me], and while it does not take long, it is just about like paying out hard earned cash for say a TV set and having the retailer call me and ask me to come in and show him my receipt every few days. While they may mean well, I sense that in this case, WGA is beating up on good people that pay good money for a product and that we are being treated badly for having done so. I sense that software pirates have really handed all of us a mess to deal with, but that Micrsoft has a larger challenge... how NOT to totally confuse and anger their base. I'd like to just send them my number and have them call on the phone and I can begin reading from among the list of licenses I have bought - for each one, they get a number and they send me a hundred bucks for each second we spend on the phone. I mean, why not use Passport and have one sign in each day and write five times... "I am still in compliance with your many EULA's and I am not a pirate..." I am totally with Latch on this one.... Microsoft needs to find a different way to combat piracy and kick the dork that came up with this one to the curb. |
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