I think there is going to be a flood of comment on Windows genuine advantage. My question is – Is this software guilty of hijacking? I bought a computer with genuine Microsoft Windows XP Pro and have no complaints about it. It came installed in the computer and for some reason the company, Sony, didn’t give me a disk with it. However, perhaps because of continuing virus attacks in China and perhaps because of resource competition between software and perhaps because of mysterious computer stuff my computer eventually began to do strange things. It had trouble starting up and was subject to other strange quirks. I downloaded the best free fix programmes I could and tried them all but nothing fixed the problem. Of course I checked for viruses and hijackers and pirates and all kinds of nasties and none were found. The only thing that worked was to use system restore and that worked for various periods until the problem resurfaced each time. English language Windows is very hard to locate in China so when a friend offered to give it to me free i said Yes Please! He located two and only one worked so I used it. My Windows is now repaired but it turns out that the disk I used to repair my genuine Windows does not pass the ‘Genuine Advantage’ test. I can be working on something and what I am doing will freeze and a pop-up will tell me my computer is at risk and I ought to get an approved version of Windows. Causing my computer to freeze and interrupting my work is hijacker behaviour, isn’t it? Isn’t that illegal?