Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help

* Douglas Otis:

At the prior ISOS conference in Redmond, Microsoft made assurances even systems failing Genuine Advantage verification can enable automatic udpates to obtain critical updates. One of the attendees remarked privately this automation works only for English versions of XP. : (

Yeah, I couldn't install the latest security update today; I was forced to run WGA first. I have to admit that I didn't try very hard to bypass it since WGA was already installed on that machine. Microsoft has been quite successful in associating security updates with piracy. Perhaps not at a technical level, but definitely in people's minds. 8-(