Windows Vista SP1 activation is still crackable
A JOURNALIST at ZDnet has discovered that Microsoft's Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 (SP1) applied still has crackable Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) activation.
Over the weekend, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes posted up the following bog entry:
"It does seem that Microsoft hasn’t been successful in closing off all the hacks that allow non-genuine copies of Vista SP1 to pass off as genuine ones. After a few minutes of searching the darker corners of the Internet and a few seconds in the Command Prompt I was able to fool Windows into thinking that it was genuine, turning this:
[image of Windows Vista status -- License Status: Notification]
"... into this:
[image of Windows Vista status -- License Status: Licensed]
"Close, but no cigar."
Indeed. Kingsley-Hughes also wrote that the "hack" (sic) is not complicated, but just a matter of "download, run, wait a few seconds, reboot, done," in his words.
So much for the quality of code demonstrated in the Vole's Windows Vista SP1. µ
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I read somewhere that the anti-Hack code was not implemented in SP1 RC1 and will be on the final release instead.
maybe they aren't plugging these holes in hopes that someone installs Vista. An installs an install - purchased or not...
vista took 5 years from the ground up
this was allready hack free that is what ms said ms is just blowing hot air
a hack will be out in 2 hours after the finel code remember blu-ray it was hacked and these clowns said it could not be hacked
Any lock can be picked. No code is unhackable. What's the big news?
Ridiculous. We're talking about Microsoft software people, there is no such thing as a final release.
Luv da fakt dat yu is stil tryin. Dont giv up.