![]() ![]() Windows Genuine Advantage is an anti-piracy program implemented to detect illegal copies of Windows XP.Īccording to privacy advocate Lauren Weinstein, the WGA made a connection to Microsoft's servers even after it had validated a Windows system as genuine. Rumors have been flowing around the Internet for quite a while and Microsoft was finally forced to admit on Wednesday that they were true: the latest update to Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) phones home to the Redmond company on a daily basis. My data is just too important to expose to the corporate whims of a company too big to act in a coordinated manner. No matter how good their products may seem, it is just a matter of time before some internal directive results in a massive security hole on my PC. It is because of this conflict-of-interest that I no longer run Microsoft's security products. This is a particularly good example of how the company continues to trample over itself, simultaneously acting as anti-spyware provider as well as a spyware company. One of the major objections raised about Microsoft's foray into PC security is that competing interests within the company will compromise the level of security they are willing to provide. However Microsoft, makers of Windows Defender, has has just been caught red-handed distributing software which does exactly this. Windows Genuine Advantage: Safety Switch or Spyware?Įditor's Note: Few in the anti-spyware industry would disagree that software which surreptitiously calls home qualifies as "spyware".
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