Re: An interesting twist on WGA

Today, with great enthusiasm and quite emphatically, Kerry Brown
laid this on an unsuspecting readership ...

I have no idea what you mean by this. The spyware referenced
in the link has nothing to do with WGA other than it uses the
name to try and fool people into thinking it's a legitimate
service. I thought it was an interesting bit of social
engineering. You won't get the malware by downloading Windows
updates.

Exactly how do you know that, Kerry? ANY software can have malware
in it, certainly from the most hated, most vulnerable developer on
the planet. I'm not saying that there is malware in anything from M
$, but I wouldn't be nearly as quick as you are to defend them
without a shred of proof which, by definition, is impossible to
gather, as one cannot prove a negative hypothesis by searching for
examples.

--
ATM, aka Jerry

"Cake are square, pie are round" - Pundit's saying
.

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