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Cpilot:
Microsoft's WGA not validating

Started seeing this being reported around the web. OS's affected are WinXP and Vista.

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Darwin:
Wonderful! Thanks for alerting us to this, cpilot  :Thmbsup:. I guess the best advice right now is to stay away from any downloads/installations that require WGA do its thing; it's too risky right now.

Cpilot:
Wonderful! Thanks for alerting us to this, cpilot  :Thmbsup:. I guess the best advice right now is to stay away from any downloads/installations that require WGA do its thing; it's too risky right now.
-Darwin (August 25, 2007, 03:34 PM)
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There's supposed to be a fix by Tuesday (Sept. 28) but then again by what I'm reading M$ isn't sure what the problem is....so who knows?

Eóin:
This is possibly a more recent update from the source linked above.

Update: Word from Microsoft is that this problem has been fixed, and all users affected should revisit the WGA site and re-validate. There's no explanation as to why Microsoft was originally telling people to wait until Tuesday, but the good news is that the problem has been solved.-http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070825-windows-genuine-advantage-suffers-worldwide-outage-problems-galore.html
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Thanks for the heads up Cpilot.

PhilB66:
This is possibly a more recent update from the source linked above.

Update: Word from Microsoft is that this problem has been fixed, and all users affected should revisit the WGA site and re-validate. There's no explanation as to why Microsoft was originally telling people to wait until Tuesday, but the good news is that the problem has been solved.-http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070825-windows-genuine-advantage-suffers-worldwide-outage-problems-galore.html
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Thanks for the heads up Cpilot.
-Eóin (August 25, 2007, 08:02 PM)
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Correct. Read Microsoft Technical Support Furum.

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