Well, what else can you call it? As you all know, if you install the latest security updates from Microsoft, annoying popup notifications appear for all pirated versions of Windows out there. On top of it, if you try to kill "WGAtray.exe" (one of the responsible culprits), it starts again immediately. So you have a process that can't be killed, and popups appearing everywhere, if it's not spyware, what else is it?
There are a lot of remedies to get rid of this spyware, but I believe in the old saying "Prevention is better than cure". So the simplest possible solution would be to change Automatic Updates setting to "Notify me but don't automatically download or install them". I would suggest one to do this immediately after installing windows. Now windows will notify you when there are updates to be downloaded. In this case, you will find "Windows Genuine Advantage" update. Uncheck the checkbox, tell it I don't want to be notified of it again, and you are done! For those of you who have already installed this update, nothing to fear, there are lots of sites out there that'll help you get rid of this spyware. Just do a search for it!
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