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rowan · 04-21-2007, 08:27 PM

I came across this by accident because a couple of progs that normally start on boot (such as ICQ) hung for some reason, and a dialog popped up saying that the Genuine Advantage Tool wasn't responding. Hmmm. Why would GAT be running at boot?

Did a quick web search and what do you know... it runs because it's trying to phone home. Daily.

I bet that's one thing that the SP2 firewall doesn't block!!!

04-21-2007, 08:27 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	Did you know XP's Genuine Advantage Tool regularly phones home to Microsoft? I came across this by accident because a couple of progs that normally start on boot (such as ICQ) hung for some reason, and a dialog popped up saying that the Genuine Advantage Tool wasn't responding. Hmmm. Why would GAT be running at boot? Did a quick web search and what do you know... it runs because it's trying to phone home. Daily. I bet that's one thing that the SP2 firewall doesn't block!!!