[Off Topic] Windows Genuine Advantage

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

There's been a flood or WEB articles on MS' Windows Genuine Advantage
(XP) patches. Frankly, I can't decide whether to throw in the towel,
download these corporate efforts to, MS says, combat piracy, or to
look on them as spyware or worse and get updates from a third-party
enterprise program such as NetChk Protect (free for a year). I
certainly don't want to create a contretemps here, waste bandwidth
and clutter mailboxes and would be fine with pulling this post, but
I'm curious whether others are simply ignoring the issue, downloading
the two WGA components (required if you want to use WinAutoUpdates)
and just keeping to their work. Thanks for your thoughts.

Michael Norman