Re: WGA

Please read the following and become better informed:

Update to the WGA Notifications program introduces changes based on customer feedback
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/jun06/06-27WGA.mspx

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/FAQ.aspx?displaylang=en

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"Roberto" wrote:

| I surely cannot be the only one who is concerned that MS has sneakily pushed
| a beta version of WGA out to the unsuspecting public can I? This piece of
| garbage, purported to be an important security update! It phones home
| regularly and 'steals' data off your PC and does all the other things that
| spyware does. So much for trustworthy computing.
|
| I am very disappointed with Microsoft.

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