Vista !EXCLUSIVE! Keygen
[Updated: Mar 4, 2007 @ 16.45 pm] Note to Engadget writers who didn't read this article before commenting ...I never claimed to have found "activation keys," all I saw what that after running the script for some time that the Magical Jellybean applications showed that the keys had changed. I didn't use these to activate Windows and I made that clear in the article. It was pretty obvious from the type of crack that this wasn't reliable by a long shot. Looking at the VBScript code it's clear that the script is capable of generating valid keys, but as I said, the hard part is not getting keys past Windows but getting them past the activation servers.However, what this incident has done is generate interest among hacker circles in generating a keygen for Windows. Microsoft could well find itself having to fend off a number of cracks over the next few months.Maybe I should take the approach that the Mythbusters do and state whether this is "plausible" "busted" or "confirmed." Using that criteria the keygen is plausible and I saw the default keygen change twice. It can generate keys that are in the format required by Vista (certainly they "look" like Vista keys) but the chances of getting past the Microsoft activation servers are slim at best.
Vista Keygen
Bottom line is buy Windows or go LinuxThe 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.
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