WGA Removal information

Recent forum discussion and link to removal tool, click here.  Later discussion, here.

How it works :RemoveWGA.exe simply checks if the WgaLogon.dll is loaded into Winlogon.exe. If so, it offers you to remove the WGA notification tool. To do so, it sets both System32\WgaLogon.dll and System32\WgaTray.exe files to be deleted by Windows at the next reboot, and add an entry to start itself. After the reboot, RemoveWGA.exe deletes all WGA notification tool traces (Winlogon registry entry, dll and exe files in system32 and system32\dllcache, and the folder located at Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage).

To download the tool directly (10 KByte exe file), click here. In case it becomes "unavailable" from the original source. (This version as of 7-26-2006)

Latest news! WGA Hardball from M$? http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=84 

Microsoft now has instructions on disabling WGA! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921914 
Slashdot comments on above  http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=189947&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=15633608 

See also http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/382688/4085048 

Autopatcher Windows updates   http://www.autopatcher.com/ 

More links that seem applicable.

http://windowssecrets.com/comp/060615/ Scroll down to the WGA discussion relating to it's being spyware.

For info text file including manual removal, click here.

Good luck!