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From:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122058,00.asp
A Microsoft spokesperson conceded on Friday that hackers had indeed
succeeded in cracking the WGA program, but said that the software giant will
fix the flaw they exploited in an upcoming version of the WGA program.
And:
David Keller, founder of PC consulting and services firm Compu-Doctor in
Cape Coral, Florida, was able to change his Internet Explorer settings to
bypass WGA when he ran into a flaw in the program that flagged a legitimate
product key on a customer's Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 as
invalid.
"The customer was the original owner, no hardware was changed since
purchase, nor was Windows ever reinstalled on the system," Keller said in an
e-mail to the IDG News Service. WGA had rejected the operating system,
nevertheless, thereby preventing Windows Update from working, he said.
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From:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122058,00.asp
A Microsoft spokesperson conceded on Friday that hackers had indeed
succeeded in cracking the WGA program, but said that the software giant will
fix the flaw they exploited in an upcoming version of the WGA program.
And:
David Keller, founder of PC consulting and services firm Compu-Doctor in
Cape Coral, Florida, was able to change his Internet Explorer settings to
bypass WGA when he ran into a flaw in the program that flagged a legitimate
product key on a customer's Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 as
invalid.
"The customer was the original owner, no hardware was changed since
purchase, nor was Windows ever reinstalled on the system," Keller said in an
e-mail to the IDG News Service. WGA had rejected the operating system,
nevertheless, thereby preventing Windows Update from working, he said.
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