[CS-FSLUG] "Windows Genuine Advantage Notification" via autoupdate?

[Tim Young]

There are two ways you would get "rejected."  If someone stole your 
license number, or if you have installed that license on a lot of 
computers.  In either case, Microsoft does have a number to call to 
straighten it out.  While I have never needed to call that number 
myself, the people I know who have called it have not had too difficult 
a time working through it.  I guess the assumption is that, if you go 
through with calling them, you probably had a legal license.  They will 
have you read the license number off, ask you where you got the license, 
and such.  Not too much trouble.

For myself, I have no problems recommending that you install it. 

They do have a pretty well documented list of things that they check 
for.  I read it once and it was pretty straight-forward.  It was 
something like seven bench-marks from your system.  Kind-of like a 
hardware thumb-print.  They allow certain percentages to change before 
they decide you have installed the OS on a different computer.  And they 
allow you to install it on multiple computers before you are 
"rejected."  I have successfully transferred a copy of XP from a desktop 
to a laptop, and then to a second laptop (the first computer turned into 
my firewall, the first laptop died.)  All of that without getting a 
single rejection.  However they handle it, they have enough grace in the 
matter to allow some slack.

    - Tim Young

John Mark Clayton wrote:
> I'm considering letting autoupdate install it.  So, if I get this
> right.  The chances that I'll get a false positive is pretty small.
> If I do get a false positive, then all I have to do is call MS?
> I'm still not sure I like the idea of it sending "who knows what" back
> to MS.  It doesn't matter to me right now because I really don't use
> it.  But someday that may change.
> Thanks again,
> Mark
>
> Nathan, Thanks for the tip for suppressing the notice.
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