theinquirer.net — It is a simple brute force attack, dumb as a rock that just tries keys. If it gets one, you manually have to check it and try activation. Is is ugly, takes hours, is far from point and click, but it is said to work. I don't have any Vista installs because of the anti-user licensing so I have not tested it personally.
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Closed AccountMar 2, 2007
Hm, vista activations cracks/patches have been out for a while now. I'm unsure of what this story is trying to say.
Closed AccountMar 2, 2007
Seems like they would just disable the compromised key. Next time your computer does a WGA check, Vista would walk the plank.
zakmcroflMar 2, 2007
After running this for straight 8 hours and thinking about it, I believe this is a hoax.As in those who reported working keys lied about it.The script tries random keys generated from the 24 possible characters (some characters like A, E, I, Z, U don't appear in Vista keys) in a while loop.As pointed out by others the chances of this actually resulting in a valid key are slim.And even if it would return a key, it would be like a keygen for games: a valid key can get you through the installation but it won't get you online.If Microsoft isn't completely stupid the situation is something like this:there are 24^25 possible combinations, that's 3.2 * 10^34Out of these a small ratio is valid, let's say 10^15. Those keys get you through the installer and maybe WGA for now.However out of these 10^15 there's only a small number that actually is real. As in "could be on a Vista box".If Microsoft is clever this number will be around 10^10, thats a key per human with some spares. So what does this mean for the brute force attempt? Even if you would be ridiculously lucky and find one of the valid keys, the chance that it is real would be 1:100.000. Maybe WGA doesn't check for real keys yet but they certainly could do so in the future.When arguing against my math keep this in mind: my number 10^34 is correct, it's the number of possible randomly generated keys. Think about how many keys Microsoft actually need to issue every human a Vista key and divide 10^34 by that. The result are your chances to hit one of those keys.
maijcMar 2, 2007
my antivirus said its a virus... damn!!!
zakmcroflMar 3, 2007
Notice how there is not ONE report here that it is working?On the contrary, I've been running it for 24 hours now (testing purpose, I got MSDN) and nothing happened. Except for the constant 50% CPU usage.Digg me down again if you like, I still think its not working. The chances are simply too slim.
Closed AccountMar 3, 2007
Now that this is a confirmed fake, I wonder if anyone in the Vista FUD'O'Sphere is willing to comment about what it tastes like to have your mouth filled up with runny diarrhea. Why would you lie down like that and let the Bill Gates drizzle that crap in your mouth and on your face?What does it feel like to have it fill over, and run down your cheeks?Did you get any in your eyes?
abhiroopMar 3, 2007
@ucq1: tell me why is it that you hate microsoft? is it because of their monopoly on the market? is it because they make a product thats used by most of the computing world? I'm not the biggest fan of microsoft, but I fail to see why there is such an irrational hatred of a perfectly good company."kick a Microsoft employee in the balls" - these are the very people who create the software that your probably using right now!
sonu27Mar 4, 2007
Here a video for proof: <a class="user" href="http://keznews.com/2443_Video_Windows_Vista_Keygen_confirmation">http://keznews.com/2443_Video_Windows_Vista_Keygen_confirmation</a>I still don't believe it works though.
ucg1Mar 6, 2007
@abhiroopAlthough I've explained this many times, I'll do it once again. Let me preface this by saying that I am currently a software developer, use Linux as my development environment, do only cross-platform software projects, and do not use ANY Microsoft software for my work. Though I occasionally do have the displeasure of having to dealing with a Windows machine every now and then.My hatred of Microsoft goes all the way back to Windows 3.0. Although MS-DOS was not too bad (though it wasn't even capable of taking advantage of the hardware at the time), Microsoft's low-quality software has been a bane on the computer industry. Although my main problem is with the low-quality software they produce, it only makes it worse that use their monopoly and shady business practices to wipe out any other product/companies that might actually produce something good. Thus low-quality software has become ubiquitous.There are a few cases where Microsoft actually makes a good software product, but then they screw you in the licensing department.Microsoft has committed enough crimes and done enough damage that I think its perfectly reasonable to commit the crime of illegally copying their software (if you really really have to use it).I was joking about the kick-MS-employee-in-the-balls part, of course :)
cogitaMay 23, 2007
Amazing. Wow, these are cool!