WGA Notifications Quietly Installed

Every time you go to Microsoft Update, Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage program checks whether your copy of Windows XP is pirated. Now, Microsoft has begun quietly distributing a WGA Notifications program to some users via Automatic Updates.

The problem is, the automated process sometimes gets it wrong, repeatedly sending you a pop-up alert claiming that your legitimate Windows copy is bogus.

For now, Microsoft says, users will have the option of not installing the notifier when it pops up a license agreement for them to accept. At some point it will become mandatory, though. And once installed, the program can't be removed.

Microsoft has a community site to help users who are having problems with WGA.