Source: Computer World Microsoft announced this week to expand the implementation of "Windows Genuine Advantages" Project. This news came out and immediately caused workers' concerns, saying that this move will might accelerate further spread of various worms and other viruses. Microsoft said that from February this year, the Norwegian, Czech and Simplified Chinese version of Windows XP users will participate in the "Windows Genuine Advantage" project. That is, the above users will strict authentication of these user versions before downloading any upgrade patches. But many security experts said that this will affect the anti-virus capability of Windows XP users, especially for those non-genuine users. Security company Secunia's CTO Thomas Kristensen said: "If Microsoft keeps only the power to upgrade the patch to genuine users, then all users who have not received licenses will not be able to upgrade, so that the security level of the Internet It will be greatly affected. "Microsoft said that there will be 20 languages of Windows XP users will be affected, but only the Norwegian, Czech and Simplified Chinese version must participate in the project. Users of other languages will be able to voluntarily choose whether to participate in the above actions. From the fall of the year, Microsoft has adopted voluntary participation in the XP English version of users. Despite this, until the second half of 2005, users to Microsoft Download Center and Upgrade Website Access, if they want to download anything, they must pass Microsoft's genuine license test. Microsoft said that even if it is still, the user will provide security upgrade patches to users via Windows automatic update feature. But in fact, many users have closed this feature. Christien said that in order to curb piracy, Microsoft implements the starting point of the above genuine strategy can be understood, but thereby bringing huge safety hazards to the entire Internet to not be ignored. He said that due to various reasons for history and reality, the hardware vendors of many countries have installed a large number of non-genuine Windows software when they sell the PC. These machines have not been upgraded for security patches. If Microsoft suddenly upgraded the door, then these machines that are not very safe will be more likely to become a hacker's attack target; and use these infected machines, will make it These hackers have initiated an attack to the European and American computers. Christien said: "In summary, there will be a large number of Windows users will never be upgraded to the system. This also means that a large number of machines can be used by hackers." Below is a coffee from Winzheng. View of Cafe: The experts in the text is that when the MS runs the "XP Genuine Advantage Plan", the pirated users will face the embarrassment situation of system security due to the security and upgrading patch from MS officials. This is correct, and coffee feels that there are other factors that will lead to the "XP Genuine Advantage Plan" running the virus plus the spread: more pirated users try to download the patch provided by a third party or provided. In the past, domestic killing KV2005, due to the relatively strict genuine audit mechanism, pirated users could not directly connect directly to the latest virus definition, and most of the pirated users use the upgrade address provided by third parties to indirectly update the virus definition This makes some other user who have a motorful machine: individual malicious users will directly add the procedures bundled with viruses or Trojans to some updates, so that users downloaded in this way may be easily infected. This is the coffee believes that after the implementation of the "XP Genuine Advantage Plan", there is another factor that caused the virus to spread.
