Dump Windows Genuine Advantage Callbacks

The furor over Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage's daily phone call home, which checks up on your operating system to confirm its not pirated, has finally reached a breaking point. Utilities are available, including the new RemoveWGA, which stops WGA from making that call.

RemoveWGA has become so popular that its website is currently down, so you might check back in a day or two if you'd like to download it.

eWeek has a fuller story about the WGA-nuking phenomenon. It's not about people trying to get away with pirated copies of Windows, but rather concern over what exactly Windows is sending back to the mothership on a daily basis. Personal info? Baby pictures? No one knows, but just about everyone agrees that Windows doesn't need to be checking up on you every single day. (However, Microsoft recently announced plans to change the check-up from every day to every 14 days.)

If you can't download RemoveWGA, check out these 10 other ways to get rid of WGA. Feel free to report back here with your results!