Pirated Keys only cause 80% of all WGA failures

You all know windows genuine advantage (wga) which checks if you are running a legit copy of windows xp on every startup and when you try to download certain tools and updates from the microsoft website. Microsoft confirmed that only 80% of all WGA failures are caused by pirated keys which means that about 20% are not caused by pirated keys.

I think this is pretty interesting. Ed Bott from Zdnet tried to get an answer about the other 20% and recieved an evasive one stating that Microsoft would not be able to share specifics and that those mostly resulted from “activities such as various forms of tampering and unauthorized OEM installations.” The only conclusion that I can come up with is that there is most likely a large number of false positives and Microsoft does it´s best to keep this number secret.

Tags: microsoft, wga, wga failures, Windows
Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

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2 Responses to “Pirated Keys only cause 80% of all WGA failures”

1. Sintar says:

   September 6, 2006 at 5:52 pm

   Considering I have dealt with an average of 2 false positives per day for the last month I must say it’s very good at catching generated keys in the 640 PID range though. I have noticed that a little under 50 percent are false positives mostly tampering as Microsoft said in the order of activation hacks and improper Product keys and fixing it is as simple as reentering the COA Product key. or activating windows usually have to do it over the phone so you can answer the why are you reinstalling for the 5th time questions This is just my personal experience

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2. Bitangsha says:

   November 17, 2006 at 11:45 am

   Buddy ! I just instll win 2000 pro (pirated) and validate it. Voila! micro… says it’s GENUINE and I downloaded EEEVVVEEERYTHING. Just put the number
   “********” (without quote) in the validation box and you are ready to go …..

   (Note: the number worked for Win XP + Win 2000 in my comp.. it may not be valid for you)

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