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.

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.

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.

Thanks for the heads up Cpilot.

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.

Thanks for the heads up Cpilot.

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.

Here's the latest from Microsoft