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Ärende: Re: Brute force Keygen cracks Vista - a hoax?
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@dontspamhotmail.com>



http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/10119/1103/

 The man who cracked Vista, known as 'Computer User' at the KezNews.Com
Forum, has admitted in a posting entitled "Brute force keygen a phoney" that
the keygen doesn't actually work, even as Microsoft are reported to be
investigating the crack to see if it works or not.
'Computer User' said that "fact is the brute force keygen is a joke, i never
intended for it to work. I have never gotten it to work, everyone should stop
using it! everyone who said they got a key is probably lying or mistaken! i
suggest everyone uses the 120 day 3x rearm method."



"Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@-nospam-hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:45e8c6be$1@w3.nls.net...
> will the WGA team ever sleep now?
>
> Using Vista to crack Vista
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=296
>
> A lot of tech sites seem to have totally misunderstood how this works.
> Many seems to think that this crack somehow relies on hammering
> Microsoft's activation servers 20,000 times an hours.  This is inaccurate.
> This crack uses Vista itself to check that the key is in an acceptable
> format.  Only after a key that's accepted by Vista does the user have to
> attempt activation.  Limiting how many times an IP address can access the
> activations servers would have no effect on this.  The real weakness here
> is that Microsoft has relied on a script to control licensing and as a
> result it makes this kind of attack easier because the script can be
> easier modified and tampered with.
>
> Over on KezNews.com a brute force method for acquiring a usable product
> key for Microsoft's Vista platform has been released.
>
> he brute force keygen relies on replacing the software license manager
> script slmgr.vbs with one that's been modified to search for valid
> 25-character product keys. Periodically you have to check manually to see
> if they key has changed and then manually use that key to attempt to
> activate Windows.
>
> I can confirm that the scheme works.  I've had the script running on
> Windows Vista Ultimate inside Virtual PC 2007 and already netted two
> product keys.  Now I've not used these keys to try to activate Windows,
> but others have reported successfully activating their copies of Windows
> Vista using keys found in this way.  There are, however, some drawbacks to
> the keygen that will probably prevent it from becoming widespread.
>
> First, the process can take a long time and consumes a lot of system
> resources while running.  Anyone expecting to net a key needs to spend
> hours or maybe even days running this script.  This is not a  "click the
> button and a key is generated instantly" kind of key generator.
>
> You also need some smarts to use it.  A lot of people start running the
> script and then use the Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder (included with the
> download package - those hackers think of everything!) to check the key
> but a lot of people seem to be trying to activate using the default trial
> keys.  You have to be able to tell the difference between a valid key and
> the default key that is assigned during installation if you choose not to
> enter a key.

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