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Microsoft Sued Over WGA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the phoning-home dept.

Hope Thelps writes "The Seattle PI is reporting on a lawsuit being brought against Microsoft in response to their WGA spyware. Groklaw is also covering the story. Although there are a lot of similarities to Sony's rootkit, the actual harm done is less concrete. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out."

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  1. Re:NOT SPYWARE by dutchman72 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    OMG! Of course Microsoft's own Antispyware program will pass it as clean. It was programmed that way. They don't want you to know that its a dirty little bug that you've installed on your system. If the Antispyware Beta was set up as any other spyware, with the same controls, it would report it as a bug. Plain and simple.

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  2. Re:NOT SPYWARE by DarkestDream · · Score: 0, Redundant

    omg, you must be the moron who cant tell the difference between MS AntiSpyware and WGA.... THEY UNDER THE SAME FREAKING COMPANY!

  3. Re:NOT SPYWARE by agricolae · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You've got to be kidding, right? M$ASW-B is a piece of junk! Just run Netscape's AnitSpyware an it will come up with M$ASW as a questionable. Of course M$ASW is not going to report WGA as spyware. It's all part of the same programme!

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