gHacks technology news » wga failures http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Pirated Keys only cause 80% of all WGA failures http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/04/pirated-keys-only-cause-80-of-all-wga-failures/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/04/pirated-keys-only-cause-80-of-all-wga-failures/#comments Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:41:51 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/04/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.

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