Is Genuine Advantage Spyware? - Comments Page 2

I agree with one point regarding WGA, and that is Microsoft does have every right to protect its intellectual property.
But here are the problems with WGA.
1. It doesn’t work and doesn’t prevent piracy. This problem alone should be enough to abandon the WGA effort.
2. Unnecessary code. It is unnecessary code and like any other code you must patch support, update etc. Wasted time, resources and money on a piece of software that offers no protection for Microsoft or value to the consumer.
3. I have no problem running WGA and I read and agreed to the EULA. It’s not enough that I have to update it but when I go to download Defender I must download yet another WGA. Then I have to validate for all other requiring WGA there after. As if that is not enough then you get to repeat the loop with Office. Where is exactly is the “advantage” for Microsoft or me? Coincidentally, software pirates are missing out on all of these “advantages”.
I will spare you my rant on Vista. Otherwise, you have a great site with great information.

Yes, yes, excellent and legitimate idea on Microsoft's part. I first got notice of WGA pitching a tent in my CPU last week. Now, I admit: my Windows XP copy was, well, copied, off of a friend's genuine version. To my knowledge, I am the only one he allowed to rip his version; it's not like he made a habit out of it, and I usually don't either; whether that makes it ethically more acceptable id for anyone to decide. But I am a university student, and thus, I am up to my neck in debt, not money, and that 200$ is simply an amount I did not have at the time.
My problem is this: I am even least likely to cough up 200$ tiday than I was when I set up my computer, and since first showing its ugly head on my monitor screen, WGA has all but slowed my CPU to a crawl. It eats up at my RAM memory like its all-you-can-it buffet in there; I can no longer seem to run two things at the same time without everything crashing into flames (say, Winamp and MSN Messenger, for instance), and it even has affected my brand new DSL hi-speed connexion down to old dial-up speed performances.
So I am pissed at Microsoft, the richest society in the world, that so desperately needs my 200$ that they will poisoned my life and my computer without regards for us poor non-billionaires out there.
So, at long last, my question is this: has anyone had a similar WGA experience, and, is there a way to fix it without me having to take a mortgage on my iPod (which I am too broke to have one btw)?
Thank you all.

MS have well pass the border for criminal activities, when the lock someone out from their own files, and thats what WGA does. I have experience from friends computers. On the Internet, you can find ANTIWPA, and that cut the head of the spyware. Its a war, with secret codes, and other unpleasant thing from M$, fight them back ! There are free Linux, you can tell M$, if they want pay ! I think Windows work well, but have nothing against make the company suffer. Capitalism are violence in one way or the other, its a war. Fight them back!

EDITOR'S NOTE: Capitalism is not violence. But stealing and piracy are two things that tear at the fabric of the civil society. Capitalism is the engine that drives innovation and invention. Without capitalism there would be no Internet. Probably no electricity, cars or other things you take for granted, either.