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If you have pirated software (Windows OS) on your PC, then you'll want to uninstall the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications addin. It won't be easy. A website is calling it a spyware from goo old Microsoft. But there's a way to kill it so that you don't have a Tattoo stuck on your bottom right screen forever and bugs you to buy Genuine Windows OS. Read on.. And I'm not justifying that you should get pirated software (shame on you)

There are 2 parts to this spyware popup: WGAtray.exe and wgalogon.dll. Killing the WGAtray.exe process causes it to reappear in 1 second. With it present, WGAlogon cannot be deleted. And you can't delete it while it's running. Seem impossible? Nah.

First, you need to have an Explorer window open and pointing to the C:\windows\system32 folder, where the spyware resides (interestingly, doing a hard drive search for "wgatray" turns up nothing- clever spyware, this is!). And you have to have Task Manager open, right beside the Explorer window. This is tricky, and must be done fast- you kill the process in Task Manager, and before the spyware can reopen itself, you must delete WGAtray.exe in the Explorer window. You only have a split second, but it is possible. Once the spyware .exe is gone, you must reboot your computer.

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