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echo: nthelp
to: Geo.
from: Robert Comer
date: 2007-01-01 23:35:16
subject: Re: Orwellian Company of the Year award goes to ....

From: "Robert Comer" 

> Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't WGA check with Microsoft every couple
> weeks or so? What good is WGA if blocking it from MS will stop a
> compromised key from being deactivated?

You're not wrong, that's the supposed story, but I would like to think
there's some provision for non-connected computers.

--
Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
news:4599e044$2{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:4599dded{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> I really don't expect any degrade in this case, at least I hope not --
>> there's a lot of computers that don't have internet access (for security
>> reasons).  I can't think that Microsoft would make that much of a
>> mistake.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't WGA check with Microsoft every couple
> weeks or so? What good is WGA if blocking it from MS will stop a
> compromised key from being deactivated?
>
> Geo.

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