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If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Called "Cuebot-K", and when a list of services running on the computer is summoned, the worm appears as 'Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Notification', Sophos said. Cuebot-K's registry entry appears as HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\w\\... Re: WGA is not a killer, says Microsoft Hmmmmm, SurferJoe Just as well I don't know how to do a link to another PF1 thread... ... like the one where I said I wanted facts on that "killer" story - not just rumours spreading worldwide on the strength of one person's reported conversation. Or else I might be saying that old: "I told... (Journalists stay picky like this even when they stop being journalists. Cynicism about unsubstantiated rumour comes from years of hearing Chinese whispers that fizzled out for lack of proof) Your second example of paranoia may well be true, of course. I haven't read that yet to see if the source is credible. But there does need to be more than the result from someone's blog to make it true. Edit: Yes, I'll accept that a senior technology officer knows what he's talking about in this case - seeing that the firm has obviously tested before they talked. Re: WGA is not a killer, says Microsoft I was actually hoping it was a killer, and people got their unlicensed copies frozen. Cars get fined or towed away, assets get frozen or repossessed if payments not made, why not the same for operating systems. That would be fine if they actually killed only the genuine unlicensed/illegal/pirated copies but if you have been following some of the threads here there have been plenty of instances whereby innocent people have been flagged as having pirated copies for various reasons. Re: WGA is not a killer, says Microsoft Originally Posted by Laura Hmmmmm, SurferJoe Just as well I don't know how to do a link to another PF1 thread... ... like the one where I said I wanted facts on that "killer" story - not just rumours spreading worldwide on the strength of one person's reported conversation. Or else I might be saying that old: "I told... (Journalists stay picky like this even when they stop being journalists. Cynicism about unsubstantiated rumour comes from years of hearing Chinese whispers that fizzled out for lack of proof) Your second example of paranoia may well be true, of course. I haven't read that yet to see if the source is credible. But there does need to be more than the result from someone's blog to make it true. Edit: Yes, I'll accept that a senior technology officer knows what he's talking about in this case - seeing that the firm has obviously tested before they talked. I understand your point..but I still like to get a whiff of a smoking gun sometimes! The problem with going to the stars is only the first few hundred miles.