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Brian Livingston is out with a new Windows Secrets newsletter with an article titled: Genuine Advantage is Microsoft spyware.
He states, "Windows Genuine Advantage — the controversial program Microsoft auto-installed as a "critical security update" on many PCs starting on Apr. 25 — not only causes problems for many users but has now been proven to send personally identifiable information back to Redmond every 24 hours."

Reasons:
1. Lack of disclosure before installation
2. Transmits data to a central computer
3. Downloads other software and morphs itself
4. Cannot easily be uninstalled

I encourage you to read the article.
Tags: microsoft, windows, spyware, wga