[Space Wrangler]

M$ is starting to really take some heat on WGA due to its high rate of false positives. IT staffs are getting their fill of this thing quick.

[ShadowAce]

[Publius6961]

Well, if I ever needed incentive for switching to Linux, this may be it on the horizon.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Already Using Linux. I only have Winblows for my sons Comp because he plays games. If they made games for Linux instead of windows M$ would tank big time.

[ahayes]

It bothered me to install it so I finally did the first time it appeared just to make it go away. Now it's back again, sitting in my system tray telling me to update. It's not a perk for me at all--I know my OS is legal as I remember buying it from a national software chain. It's Microsoft looking out for themselves.

[Turbopilot]

The sad part is that WGA Notifications is still going strong. I'm reinstalling XP Pro on my main computer now, and the install is from a very old CD so naturally there are a number of updates I needed from Windows Update. WGA Notifications was in the "first" list along with the updated version of Windows Update itself. I told it not to install, and every round of updates since then has warned me that I've hidden a "critical" update - I can't believe MS still has this in the critical category.

Fortunately, I've finished all the backdated updates, and anything going forward will just pop up in my system tray. Automatic Updates has ignored this in the past once I've told it to be ignored.