Microsoft WGA phones home?
section: microsoft, for your questions: KezNews forum, 10.3.2007
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversAnalysts over at the German web site Heise Online have uncovered a curious behavior with the latest Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) update.
The update is intended to patch the latest hole that hackers have used to work around the WGA utility, which checks to see if the users' copy of Windows is genuine or pirated. According to tests conducted with an Ethernet sniffer program, if the user clicks the close button to cancel the installation of this WGA update, Windows sends some information back to Microsoft over the wires.
This information includes version numbers of both Windows and WGA, the language of the operating system, some registry information, and a cookie. Some hackers are worried that Microsoft is going to use this information to identify potential pirates, but Microsoft claims that the data is only used to try and diagnose failures with the WGA utility itself. The outgoing data can be blocked, if desired, by personal firewall software or hardware router.
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Comments(22)
that's a scary thought, that ms could find out wou wou are. good thing i ojnly use my
first name on my os. also, as far as ms is cincerned, both xp abd vista are genuine and
activated.
omg, microsoft isnt going to do anything to any so called pirate or hacker. i hate when
people get those 2 confused. big difference peoples!!!!! now, pirates have no reason to be
scared because pirating is not illegal!!! just make sure u read the fine print. thats why
ms cant do $hit about it and really, they dont care.
mac os of linux rulez :)
"pirating is not illegal!!!"
congrats, that's the stupidest thing i've
read all day.
micro$it has been doing this forever but they asked your permission first :-0
"little" error: windowz rulez!
(installed on at least 90% of pc's/notebooks
:-) )
yeap, ... the microsoft is not sleeping ... they are study all the time, but any way, is
just for short time, dont worry .
ok the last two messages make no fu-
cking sense.... why do ppl post messages that
make zero sense or go nowhere? i understand you dont speak english and have a hard time
translating but seriously....the rest of us that do speak english have no f-uckin clue
what yer talkin about so is not yer point wasted?
so...you speak of all people...hmmmm...meehhhhhhhh
no....jesus christ if ya read the message i indicated the ppl that have trouble
translating or weilding english -a person knows if they understand somethin or not...at
least i hope so or we're all in trouble- are the ones that may be wasting their time and
their point.....thanks for proving my point just a lil bit more scarabee
why don't you phone home to your kindergarten where you belong.
phone home to my kindergarten jesus tap dancing christ you dont even have a a full grasp
of english and spelling and are trying to tell me where to go and how to get there? all
the while just proving my point you arrogant fool
let me be wise and quit this stupid conversation. have a good day.
"let me be wise and quit this stupid conversation. have a good day." wasn't mi
outspraak!
how do you bevalt kindergartner?
walk to hell spectre!
wow you guys are somethin else still tryin to defend yer poorly educated \ translated
asses. i even typed into a dying thread and come back and check a week later and you
cavemen are still trying to defend yerselves using even worse english and grammar?! you
peeps need to get a life and learn some english...christ give up on computers...they're
beyond you.
cant wait to see which no life blasts this after a week or
two....jump on in
fagget!!!
lmao!!!! if yer callin me a faggot -learn to spell- then ya shouldnt enter your name as
faggot unless yer tryin to ask me out on a date ;) lmao
yer ya yer yaya yer yer yer yabadabadoo speaking about "learn to spell" lol
i recall "cant wait to see which no life blasts this after a week or two....jump on
in"... lol
ya - yer - f*****g. i see your pool of vocabulary is really deep. what the hell does
'weilding' mean in your post of 14-03-2007 16:03 mean. do you speak any other languages
spectre? at least people try using another language, and maybe you need to improve your
language a bit more before commenting on other peoples abilities.
Windows 7 RTM 7600.16385.090713-1255 HERE !
scary
By mike on 10.03.2007 - 17:03