Lawsuit seeks to tag WGA nagware as spyware

azurnoir

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Wed Sep-23-09 04:01 AM
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Lawsuit seeks to tag WGA nagware as spyware

A US lawsuit has alleged that Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), Microsoft's controversial anti-piracy software, is little better than spyware.

A lawsuit (which seeks class-action status) filed in Washington district court last week also cries foul over false advertising as well as allegations of privacy law violations, Electronista reports. More specifically, the suit alleges that the XP version of WGA was offered to users as a security update rather than as an anti-counterfeiting technology.

WGA phones home to Microsoft daily with IP address and other information on users. The latest lawsuit, like others against WGA before it, takes exception to this behaviour.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/wga_spyware_lawsuit/

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Wed Sep-23-09 04:12 AM
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1. Good luck!

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Wed Sep-23-09 04:27 AM
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Wed Sep-23-09 04:28 AM
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3. Um... yah.

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DRoseDARs

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Wed Sep-23-09 04:34 AM
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5. Posting like that, this fellow may well catch up to your 50,000+ posts...

Edited on Wed Sep-23-09 04:35 AM by DRoseDARs

Just saying, spammer... :shrug:

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Edit: I'm making a joke playing off of devilgrrl's post playing off of kentuck's.

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Greyhound

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Wed Sep-23-09 04:33 AM
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4. Buh-bye.

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hobbit709

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Wed Sep-23-09 04:42 AM
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6. I hope you copied and pasted this blithering

Otherwise you spent way too much time typing it all out with all the links..
Hello and goodbye.

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azurnoir

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Wed Sep-23-09 04:56 AM
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8. your point being? n/t

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hobbit709

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Wed Sep-23-09 04:46 AM
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7. There's a cure

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Uninstallers/RemoveWGA.shtml

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