[IP] Another Windows Genuine Advantage screw up
Begin forwarded message:
From: Rick Adams <Rick.Adams@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 17, 2006 2:49:38 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Another Windows Genuine Advantage screw up
I have an old Dell laptop (2002) running the Windows XP that came
preinstalled on it from Dell.
It is running some data monitoring software so I can keep an eye on
some environmental issues.
This morning at 3am the monitoring stopped.
I was not amused to find out that the reason it had stopped
monitoring was that at 3am Windows Update had loaded the Windows
Genuine Advantage module, then rebooted the system after installing
it, then refused to allow the system to start up until someone
clicked on the box warning that the Dell supplied Windows Xp was not
genuine.
How long until some critical system is screwed up by this?
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