Bad gameguard update?

I hardly see how this is an issue. You're just nitpicking pointless pomegranate. On top of that, Vista pretty much COMES WITH IT, so who cares? You're looking for things that don't matter. Not having to install something is not some HUGE SUPER COOL ADVANTAGE, which is the POINT of this off topic discusison to begin with.

no offense but a lot of your responses to people are fairly flame-ish, they are suggesting ways to help, but they were alternatives rather than attacking the source mainly.

first, have you tried the more obvious stuff like deleting the gg folder and letting maple fix it to see if that works?