Windows Genuine Advantage is Microsoft's not so delicate clear out on unlawful piracy of Windows XP and Microsoft Office products. Microsoft has also started with an ActiveX part to force the owners of Windows XP to validate their version before downloading the security updates. Regrettably this exacting system was quite easily blocked by the groups on the net and work arounds which materialize about immediately with the cracked files and java script fixes.
Now Microsoft is also becoming more advanced in their attack on the pirated versions of Windows XP or Microsoft Office. They are also together with a Windows Genuine benefit security piece in the updates of Windows XP. The latest patch, which is been released the first week of June 2006, which had in fact produced pop-ups on the login screen as well as on the desktop clearing up that this version of Windows XP is not a genuine and the owner may be the victim of software fake. If your version of Windows XP is not a genuine and does not pass the validation system easily, then you might not be able to download the security patches from Windows Updates, or install the newest version of Internet Explorer 7 and the other software too. For those users who are not having a valid version of Windows XP, Microsoft offers some special promotions for them.