Problem Windows Genuine Advantage

[Cpilot]

Microsoft's WGA not validating

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

[Darwin]

Wonderful! Thanks for alerting us to this, cpilot  . 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  . 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)

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

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

Thanks for the heads up Cpilot.

-Eóin (August 25, 2007, 08:02 PM)

Correct. Read Microsoft Technical Support Furum.

[Cpilot]

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

Thanks for the heads up Cpilot.

-Eóin (August 25, 2007, 08:02 PM)

Caught it before I did.  

Thanks for the update.

[f0dder]

Heh, still no update on what happened. Yay WGA.

[PhilB66]

Heh, still no update on what happened. Yay WGA.

-f0dder (August 27, 2007, 05:55 AM)

Here's the latest from Microsoft