Stop Windows from Phoning Home
A new tool created by a private security company can prevent your PC (or Mac) from phoning home ET-style. The component targeted by the tool is the callback component that is part of the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool now mandatory for all Windows installations. The WGA tool is used to curb Windows piracy and consists of two major components: validation and notification. Validation determines whether the copy of Windows installed is pirated and Notification nags users when Microsoft believes you are using a pirated version of the operating system.
The problem is that Notifications has been "phoning home" to Microsoft server every day and Windows users are concerned about how it violates their privacy and security. To prevent the transfer of information, the private security company created the utility, RemoveWGA, which works on Windows XP (SP1 and SP2).
The utility can be downloaded here but it is not intended to be used to run on pirated versions of Windows. You should only use the tool for preventing the violation of your privacy and security if you have a genuine version of XP. I would never condone software piracy.
posted by Evan Spiegel @ 3:48 PM
6 Comments:
At 6/22/2006 4:18 PM,
Kiltak said…
I wrote a perfectly nice blog post about this last night, and when I was about to post it this morning, the site was put offline for an indeterminate period of time..
Bummer :)..
At 6/22/2006 6:15 PM,
Evan Spiegel said…
Thats reliable Blogger for you!
Makes you want to switch to wordpress that much faster!
At 6/22/2006 8:58 PM,
Kiltak said…
No, the site which is hosting the anti-WGA utility :)
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