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Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations
"Tom Willett" wrote:
|http://www.informationweek.com/inter...leID=188703441 | | MS is using Beta as a critical update, deeper n deeper "Microsoft on Friday acknowledged that it could have done a better job in explaining how the software behaves. The application is currently in beta." -- http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery.html |
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Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations
Tom Willett wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/inter...leID=188703441 LOL! Instead of phoning home every day, MS is changing it to every 14 days! Whoopy-do! -- Peace! Kurt Kirsch Self-anointed Moderator http://microscum.com "It'll soon shake your Windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'." |
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Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations
If you're going to reply to someone in a crossposted thread, at least learn
how to crosspost yourself before doing so. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Jon" wrote in message newsan.2006.06.12.00.29.33.392882@SomewhereOrOth er.com... On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:52:05 -0400, kurttrail wrote: Tom Willett wrote: http://www.informationweek.com/inter...leID=188703441 LOL! Instead of phoning home every day, MS is changing it to every 14 days! Whoopy-do! With a summary of the past 2 weeks perhaps :-) Jon |
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Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations
kurttrail wrote: Tom Willett wrote: http://www.informationweek.com/inter...leID=188703441 LOL! Instead of phoning home every day, MS is changing it to every 14 days! Whoopy-do! 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. |
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Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations
Yeah, stick to comments about the mechanics of posting, if you have nothing
else to add. -- Jon "Reach out and grep someone." --Bell Labs Unix "Rick Rogers" wrote in message ... If you're going to reply to someone in a crossposted thread, at least learn how to crosspost yourself before doing so. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Jon" wrote in message newsan.2006.06.12.00.29.33.392882@SomewhereOrOth er.com... On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:52:05 -0400, kurttrail wrote: Tom Willett wrote: http://www.informationweek.com/inter...leID=188703441 LOL! Instead of phoning home every day, MS is changing it to every 14 days! Whoopy-do! With a summary of the past 2 weeks perhaps :-) Jon |
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Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations
Tom Willett wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/inter...leID=188703441 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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Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations
Tom Willett wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/inter...leID=188703441 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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Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations
POP wrote:
Tom Willett wrote: http://www.informationweek.com/inter...leID=188703441 If you want the real story, go to MS and read it there. According to MS... "Important You've hidden important updates You've asked us not to show you one or more high-priority updates but your computer might be at risk until they are installed. Restore them now" ....my computer is at risk because I won't let it reinstall WGA. Never, ever rely on the media for an accurate account of anything, not even quotes! Totally agreed. All media links are good for are to tell you what to look for at the horse's mouth (or whichever end). In this case, I do believe it's the other end. I could allow WGA to reinstall itself--it's already downloaded, but I disabled it, and no matter what, my firewall will not be letting it out--but I'm annoyed, and I don't see that Microsoft has addressed the overall intrusiveness issue. Until it does, no WGA for me, even if it really does mean buying a Mac or switching to Linux. rl -- Rhonda Lea Kirk Insisting on perfect safety is for people without the balls to live in the real world. Mary Shafer Iliff |
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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. |
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antioch wrote:
"The Unknown P" ( ) wrote in message ... 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. Do you go in and get updates or leave it blocked all the time???? Antioch If you decide to decline there are no updates. John |
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LOL Yeah Right!!
"POP" wrote in message ... Tom Willett wrote: http://www.informationweek.com/inter...leID=188703441 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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Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations
"John" wrote in message news:1A0jg.24102$%m5.7592@trnddc04... antioch wrote: "The Unknown P" ( ) wrote in message ... 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. Do you go in and get updates or leave it blocked all the time???? Antioch If you decide to decline there are no updates. John That's what I thought - he cant want them then? Antioch |
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Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations
Paranoid people should not use computers, credit cards, telephones, or store
discount cards to name a few. "Tom Willett" wrote in message ... http://www.informationweek.com/inter...leID=188703441 |
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