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WGA Phone Home II: Electric Boogaloo

Friday 09 March 2007 at 12:31 pm
Yesterday I linked to an article at Heise Security about Windows Genuine Advantage phoning home to tell Microsoft that you refused to install it. When word of this got out, supposedly an insider at Microsoft leaked that Windows Update phones home every time it installs an update. Supposedly, it is only to confirm that an update took to control retransmission and reinstallation from the Windows Update servers; while this makes sense, I would personally feel better if packet captures of this would be posted to confirm or deny his statement.

Which, in fact, I think I'll do tonight while I work on Hummingwolf's new computer...

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“while I work on Hummingwolf’s new computer…”

Yay!

Hopefully I’ll find enough arm strength to clean bits of my room before you’re done with that computer. I’d hate for it to get here only to be taken over by dust bunnies.

Hummingwolf - 09 03 07 - 17:38 - Reply to comment?

As Lyssa mentioned yesterday, your computer is all ready to go. I just had to install ATI/AMD’s drivers for the graphics card, and that fixed everything. Whenever you’re feeling better, let me know and we’ll bring it down to you.

The Doctor (URL) - 12 03 07 - 14:16 - Reply to comment?

I’ve also got a USB hard drive set aside for helping you move your data over. Failing that, we can just put the old hard drive into the new box and use it as a secondary.

The Doctor (URL) - 12 03 07 - 14:16 - Reply to comment?


  
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