There's been a flood or WEB articles on MS' Windows Genuine Advantage (XP) patches.After a brief perusal (stressing "brief") it looks to me like this software checks fortnightly to see that you don't have a pirated version of Windows. And that using it is a precondition of getting updates to the OS. What's threatening about that? Seems perfectly reasonable. Is the problem that it may not be limited to doing that?Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx