windows genuine advantage

Microsoft lifts shackles on IE 7 for XP

News Explorer 7 (IE 7) without having to gain Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is part of Internet Explorer 7 installation will no longer require Windows Genuine Advantage validation and will be available to all...

Tags: market, installation, firefox, windows xp

9 October 2007, 10:50

Bypass found for Windows piracy check

News Researcher Debasis Mohanty outlined what he said was a technique to trick Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage validation check in a posting to the Full Disclosure security mailing list on Monday. We expected counterfeiters to try a number of...

24 May 2005, 10:09

Windows piracy check to reach millions

News Following download and installation of the 'Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications' tool, users of a pirated copy will see alerts at startup, login and during their use of the operating system. Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) was launched in...

25 April 2006, 10:03

Another way past Windows antipiracy found

News It is not a surprise for us that those who never intended to pay for software would try to find some way to circumvent Windows Genuine Advantage," the representative said. The effort, dubbed Windows Genuine Advantage, requires users to verify that...

8 August 2005, 9:43

Microsoft to lock Vista pirates out of PCs

News Microsoft has escalated its battle with software pirates during the past two years through the "Genuine Advantage" add-ons for Windows and Office, its biggest cash cows. Barring people from using their PC is a significant change from the antipiracy...

5 October 2006, 11:29

Microsoft 'frightened' by police hack

News Genuine Advantage for Vista is more stringent than for Windows XP. Genuine Advantage (WGA), which prevents non-critical updates from being downloaded from Windows Update without WGA validation, was a security issue.

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14 November 2007, 9:30

Microsoft confirms Vista hack

News According to a post by Microsoft senior product manager Alex Kochis on the Windows Genuine Advantage developers' blog, Microsoft has identified two ways in which hackers have broken the product activation security feature on original equipment...

13 April 2007, 10:28

Microsoft plans to give some pirates a break

News The move is the latest in a series of expansions for the Windows Genuine Advantage program, which Microsoft quietly launched last September. The Windows Genuine effort started as a purely voluntary program, but Microsoft has since been requiring...

5 May 2005, 10:24

Piracy check now compulsory for Windows add-ons

News It's all part of Windows Genuine Advantage, a stepped-up effort by Microsoft to increase the number of Windows users that are actually paying Microsoft for its software. We really want to cut that rate," said David Lazar, director of the Windows...

26 July 2005, 10:19

Apple widget checks cause concern

News Some bloggers have become concerned that Apple is collecting information without their authorisation, after the recent furor caused by Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage Notification program. Microsoft inserted a prerelease program in a standard...

6 July 2006, 10:14

Vista upgrade workaround exposed

News The company, however, is not -- at this stage at least -- threatening to penalise anyone who uses the workaround, or block them from important upgrades via its Genuine Advantage. An IT professional claims to have discovered a way of upgrading to a...

15 February 2007, 11:11

Pop-up vulnerability found in major browsers

News To take advantage of the flaw, a cybercriminal would have to direct a Web user from a malicious site to a genuine, trusted site such as an online bank, in a new browser window. It encouraged surfers not to trust pop-up windows that don't include an...

23 June 2005, 9:49