Windows plan to combat piracy Hits Iceberg

It took one day. On Thursday, Microsoft announced that, henceforth, would you not get updates without deAsegúrese check your Windows software was correctly registered. EncendidoViernes, the hacker first showed up on BoingBoing.

Other hacks of Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) followed quickly.

One of the management reports WindowsUpdatetrabajar could not come up with a registration system until the WGA Addin disabled in Internet Explorer.

So what does this have to do with security e-mail?

Much. If Microsoft can not protect you, do you really Creeque can protect you? While it is imperative cortafuegosde antivirus software and Microsoft Windows on each workstation basaday server is not enough.

Make sure that the guards on the perimeter of the network. . . routers, gateways, anti-spam appliances and other proxies. . . sondefinitivamente non-Windows devices.

Almost any product other than Windows adds a level of protection for a Windows idea that would not otherwise have.

Regarding the future of the WGA. . . many of the old fogies in the advent of semicroinformática Microsoft find its fight against counterfeit pirateríacruzada be sadly