Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Windows Anti-Piracy Calls Home Daily

Windows Genuine Advantage, the has actually been in a pilot program for a year, during which it phoned home to Microsoft every time somebody logged into your computer. Well, now they tell us.

To disable this "feature", follow the instructions here, or you can wait for a new version to be downloaded in the normal Windows updates cycle that purportedly does not phone home.

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