Thursday, March 1st 2007
Windows Vista activation key generators begin making their way onto the internet
Microsoft has yet another problem on it's hands regarding Windows Vista. Windows Vista, despite all the effort Microsoft put into securing it with various forms of Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) software, now has key generators (keygens) that can give a pirate a valid key. This is in no way perfect, and is quite time consuming. It simply makes a random string of 25 characters, which the pirate would then subject to Windows activation. If this were to ever catch on as a major fad among pirates, serious problems would arise. The most serious problem to Microsoft would not be the unpaid copy of Windows. Instead, it would be the possibility of a key matching a legal key that hasn't been bought yet.
Source:
The Inquirer
43 Comments on Windows Vista activation key generators begin making their way onto the internet
I've been running this for an hour. Nothing yet. Some people have done it for 15 hours or more and still got nothing. I do hope this works.
the keygen is a brute forcer, so its gonna take some time to get something out of it. but first i need a copy of vista.
lol, the only peeps that are getting a key are ones with octa-core xeon's with 16gb of memory...
useless for us :nutkick:
I'm quite twisted, I know :D
2nd- I knew this myself that a keygen 'can' be made, but i didn't know how. I can tell ya 'how' the idea of keygen of vista comes, but that would be against the forum, sry ;) But if someones really wants to know just pm me. don't worry i'm not giving away anything, i'll just tell how the idea came up ;)
3rd-Any1 could've done that, pm me and u'll know, but i won't tell the process...
4th-sry mods, but this thread is about serious piracy :shadedshu
5th- Again no worries cuz i'm a legal user :)
(does ms know about this ? if yes, then something should be done)
but ya know, the key**n thing could've been solved by a 'kid', it's so easy.
Microsoft should make some new strategies here, if they can't they just suck!!
cuz 5 years of hard labour and it took only 2 months for the pro hackers to solve this, sheesh!...
theres a reason for teh quotes
but its not that bad ;)
just put it this way...Dell is really stupid but i love them for there stupidity im a computer tech at a local store, and this guy wanted XP...so i gave him XP and took his Vista key :) (Home Ultimate) put the key in, said it had to be activated on the phone i called them up...told them dell sent me a new mobo (thats what they mainly generate the Hardware id on) and now that key matchs my mobo etc,
so its not pirated and its not illegal or stolen, it was given to me thats all you ahve to do so if you have a friend with a key...do it up! hah maily only if they have a dell
:rockout: :rockout:
trust me it works 100%
but i am still trying this keygen out jus to see if it works...M$ did something really dumb
they said it was almost fully hacker/pirate proof
thats like telling someone who likes to fix things (as me) that i cant fix it..i will try until its impossible to fix..haha
:shadedshu :shadedshu
here's some fresh info-
"Due to m$ new EULA, IF we activate our legit ones, it doesn't matter. say another pirated vista user has UR key and types it in.....(now the fun starts:D)
U DO a reinstall, and found that the key is in use, cuz on the other machine (pirate one), it is now activated and he becomes a legit user.
This is like a software epidemic virus, that can't be repaired. hope m$ copes up with this problem....it's also the reason for which i haven't done a single reinstallation of vista.
i.e Kept it on a partition, and worked flawlessly w/ others ;) (manly XP, and linux)
My current status shows activated, and no problems have arrived."