Another Windows Genuine Advantage screw up

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Rick Adams <Rick.Adams () Cello Net>
Date: June 17, 2006 2:49:38 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
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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