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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
L'INQ
ZDnet bog
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Luv da fakt dat yu is stil tryin. Dont giv up.
Ridiculous. We're talking about Microsoft software people, there is no such thing as a final release.
Any lock can be picked. No code is unhackable. What's the big news?
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
maybe they aren't plugging these holes in hopes that someone installs Vista. An installs an install - purchased or not...
I read somewhere that the anti-Hack code was not implemented in SP1 RC1 and will be on the final release instead.