Black screen of temporary death
People’s Daily reports that Beijing lawyer Dong Zhengwei filed a complaint with China’s Ministry of Public Security. According to the state-run publication, Dong called Microsoft ‘the biggest hacker in China’ and claimed that the update to Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), Microsoft’s anticounterfeit notification and validation technology, was in violation of Chinese law.
The furor stemmed from an update to Windows XP Professional that Microsoft began offering users in China last week.
The Black Screen is like this Blue Screen of Death but in important ways.
The new version of WGA’s Notifications, the software that provides the messages and other on-screen prompts when another component detects an illegal copy, displays a black desktop on counterfeit versions of the operating system and a permanent nag notice in the bottom-right corner of the screen. Users can change the background, but it reverts to black after an hour.
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Source: New York Times