"CL" <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:e7vv81$75u$1@nnrp.gol.com...
> Marvel wrote:
>> It has been said that the new Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) update that 
>> is being force fed to every user on the planet via update has problems.
>>
>> For example a person with a perfectly authentic copy of Windows accepted 
>> the WGA unknowingly. The update wiped out several drivers and ruined his 
>> machine.
>> He ran system restore and was o.k., but the update is trying to get in 
>> again.
>> This could get real nasty fast.
>> What are our choices?
>> Read more here
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=76
>>
>>
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-6087462.html?tag=nl.e550
>
> Windows Update kept installing "fixes" that screwed up all of the 
> different USB hub, controller, and device drivers so that every time I 
> printed from my USB printer or made a Skype call from my USB phone, I got 
> a BSOD within five minutes.  Normally, my PC would crash four times a day 
> at very predictable times.
>
> Xandros 4 came out on the 26th.  I installed it over my old v.2.5 that is 
> on the other half of this HDD and I haven't had a crash yet.  But, I _am_ 
> posting from the Windows side right now because it _is_ a bigger pain to 
> set the multilingual properties in Xandros and I have a learning curve 
> that others may not.
>
Microhard has a class action lawsuit over the WGA 
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001540