Microsoft Confirms Brute Force Windows Vista Crack
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 8.3.2007
Windows Vista KeyGen is a tool based on SLMGR, the vbs script used as the Licensing Manager in the operating system. Microsoft has confirmed the existence of the Vista hack and the method
used. Vista KeyGen is designed to crack out legitimate and valid Windows Vista activation keys.
However, a representative from the Windows Genuine Advantage team downplayed the brute force Vista hack.
“The attack randomly searches for legit keys. This is called a brute force attack because there really isn't much intelligence involved and the goal is to just randomly cycle through key after key after key until a legit one is found. One report indicates that the script written to perform this attack goes through about a thousand keys every half an hour; frankly, that's a pretty slow brute force attack,” said Alex Kochis, senior product manager of WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage).
A pretty slow brute force attack translates to the Windows Vista KeyGen crack searching some 20,000 product keys per hour. And at the end of several hours of continuous activity the hack can still return nothing. Additionally, in the eventuality that the Vista KeyGen crack does produce a legitimate product key for the operating system, it could still be invalidated by the Microsoft servers.
“Our product activation servers perform a more rigorous analysis of the keys that are sent up for activation than the local key logic does. For this reason producing keys that will ultimately activate is less likely than just hitting upon one that will pass the local logic. But if anyone does hear of a report of a legit customer being refused a product activation on a genuine key please let us know,” Kochis revealed.
Legitimate customers that encounter issues with the validity of their Windows Vista product keys will be dealt with at the level of Microsoft's customer service. The Redmond Company revealed that it is currently investigating the issue. “We're looking more deeply into this issue now and I'll post more info soon,” Kochis added.
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Comments(35)
this is a typical response from a large-no-one-can-touch-us corporation. i can't wait
until they fall of the face of the earth.
fuck you microsoft.
i disagree, i think its one of the few times when ms agrees with hacks to their os.
muhaaaaaa!!!!
ms should die!!!!
long live the gospel netmafia!!!
i knew this worked. and all i can say is, "i told you so". yes i did post the video
showing it worked. it's a brute force method. and it seems that when you find one key
that works. you can then find other keys that work quite quickly. my guess is because
the keys are generated for the installs one after another. so for example if the key
1111111 worked, then 1111112 would work too because it came right after the first one.
that's why i think you can find keys easily once you find the first one.
respect for m$: none can really crack vista (or prove otherwise and stop shouting!!!).
i used the legal rc version of vista for more than a month.
the design, including
the sidebar, is awesome, besides that? nothing.
12-18 gb of the new os, with slightly
new features, and nice theme.
i have pretty good pc, and still,
vista is
heavier than xp.
vista worked smooth to me, but xp, is just faster, much faster.
the uac is useless as i speak,
some of the programs, like visual studio
made by
ms aren't compitable with vista, and the file transfer is slow as hell.
i
changed back to xp, which i purchased a few years ago, and installed vista alike themes.
spending 30 minutes browsing the web, and my xp, look the same as vista, with the
benefits of the good performance of good old xp.
the only reason upgrading to
vista makes sense, is the directx10, which, demands
new hardware anyway,to notice any
different.
that was awesome to see my second computer, ibm 600x laptop,
running
vista alike theme snoothly
with xp.
btw,
think of the time you're
spanding fighting your own os not to lock up.
i think,that buying os once a few years
worth it.
however, currently, spending more than
200$ on nice theme with
drm capabilities, doesn't worth it.
i don't know why, but vista reminds me
the release of windows me, a few years ago.
enjoy your drm embedded nice
theme os,
and beware of windows updates,
that might cause your computer to
lock
up, maybe tomorrow, maybe in the next month.
i suggest you all, use xp, and
make
it look like vista.
just type, using google "xp vista theme".
if you
don't have legal cdkey,
just buy xp.
don't fall a victim to the
drm
justice day.
use xp, who knows, sooner or later,
you won't be able to buy this
one.
cheers mates.
@ nocancrackit
on the contrary, there are several methods to use vista without
purchasing a valid product key from microsoft. these methods include kms, timestopper, and
the new oem activation bypass.. vista's cracked in a manner of speaking :)
@someone: why does my pc performs better with vista running on it instead of xp (matter
of tuning?), drm: you're right. vista for creating music with sonar: perfect..and so
on...
@wizayne i call a kms, timestopper, etc. a workaround-trick, not a real
crack.
wll, that's interesting.
have you done some benchmarks?
it might feel
faster, because of
the aerog effects.
what about games?
do you have 64bit?
which version of xp did you have? (32\64)
benchmark: yes, 64xp/64vista: yes. games: not interested, music on x64:yes....:-)
aren't we offtopic now? i have respect for m$ and uncrackable vista.
sounds like this guy is taking some cheap shots at this hackers abilities to me!!
the paradox 2007 team's oem activation bypass works like a charm. i don't know why
everyone is making such a fuss about brute force. the chances that someone would come
across a particular key that would 1) belong to the exactly correct version of vista
(ultimate, business, home premium, home basic, ultimate n, business n, home premium n) and
2) not only pass the local key logic but microsoft's servers, too, is extremely remote!!!
i work at a cybertechnology centre where we have a 128 node super-cluster
operating. we've optimized the coding for linux multi-threading and it's been running
for 2 days. as yet, no results.
btw, we have a flesch processing power of just
over 2 teraflops (your typical amd or intel pentium 4 runs at 0.01 teraflops (10
gigaflops) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/flops)
we measured a key cycle rate of
3.6 million keys an hour (1000 keys a second).
in all there are a 26^25 =
2.37e+35 possible combinations. at the speed we ran the system it would take
27404378473144396860740181.127138 centuries to cycle through all of them. and remember,
this is with a highly parallel processed implementation.
frankly, microsoft
has nothing to worry on this count.
it's the oem activation bypass they should
be more concerned about.
emphasis on the word should because i believe bill
gates is inwardly happy about the 'crack' because it only means that third-world
countries and most of the rest of the world will be hostage to vista for years to come. if
microsoft os'es were completelely crack-proof we would have all switched to linux/solaris
etc. a long time ago. this just fits into microsoft's grand scheme of plans.
right now microsoft has a windows vista update that says in the description: "install
this update to resolve an issue where you may be prompted to activate a pre-installed copy
of windows vista."
frankly, i believe this is a patch that microsfot has
worked out for the oem bypass. i haven't installed it because i don't want to
inadvertently destroy my installation but i have my suspicions.
one of my
friends who was skeptical said that if microsoft really wanted to patch up such
vulnerabilities they should disguise the patches better. i told him that that would amount
to installing malware / spyware on the user's machine. i'm a geniuned xp and vista user
and i'd give micorosft an earful if they ever tried to suss up machine like that.
you created your operating system and all it's faults and problems; don't fiddle
around with my system if you're losing revenue because someone smarter than you took the
trouble to cover bases you failed to touch.
well done computer user, without him i wouldn't of been able to make that video of my
fx62 in action :)
top notch!
but is this ms admitting defeat? trying
to keep the brute in the news while the bios trick is circling?
hehehehehhehehehhe
this the newest & easiet, 100% activtaed & licensed just download
vista.all.x86.oneclick.activator-clony
@ overpriced vista
1 computer runnig this key wont do much ... but lets say if
1 million computer all run this keygen ... is could cause m$ a few probs
@ datapimp
let's assume 1 mil ppl run it. and let's also assume (for
argument's sake) that we devide the possible keys equally amongst the 1 mil users.
dividing the time that would otherwise be taken, by 1 billion, we're still dealing with
time on the scale of 274043784731443968.607 centuries.
the universe isn't
even that old!!
that figure is 13702.189 times the age of the universe. (taking
the most extreme estimate of the age of the universe ~20 bn yrs)
and remember,
every user would have to cycle through all the keys himself division by 1 billion above
should infact have been by 1 million. i just did it to show the impossibility of the task.
this is as likely as travelling back in time; and who knows even that may be
possible one day.
if it were possible, we would be seeing people from the future...
@ nocancrackit
can you please stfu. you obviously do not know what youre talkin
about.
---
sorry for the useless space i have used....
glad to be helping with the right comment. no good crack vista crack yet and you know it!
@t this site are only torrent people, learn from the master: usenet.
@microsoft:
respect! respect! respect!
@overpriced vista
unfortunately you assume in your calculations that every key must
be tried by every user running the crack.
this is untrue, the crack only need be run
until a working key is found.
also you dont take into account the number of keys that
are valid in your calculations.
i agree the chances of this happening to a single
person would be like winning the lotto, but then again, someone wins the lotto every week
right...
just disable automatic downloading and installing and hide the "activation update"...
then just pick the updates you want without ever worrying about ms deactivating your
cracked copy.
the brute force keygen was never designed to be a pratical or effective way to crack
windows vista.
it was only an experiment to prove that it could be done.
microsoft allows large hardware manufacturers (e.g. asus, hp, dell) to ship their
products
containing a windows vista installation that does not require any kind of
product activation as
this might be considered an unnecessary inconvenience for the
end-user.
instead these so-called 'royalty oems' are granted the right to embed
certain license information
into their hardware products, which can be validated by
windows vista to make obtaining further
activation information (online or by phone)
obsolete.
this mechanism is commonly referred to as 'slp 2.0' ('system-locked
pre-installation 2.0') and
consists of the following three key elements:
i m not able to do it..tried to take full ownership and control.. i m not getting that...
plz let me know abt it.. i m not getting the time stopper crack also.. plz reply soon!!!!
ok i have nothing against ms but i really dont care if they dont make any money because i
neva bought their product i got it for free!!!!!
i regret to inform you.
you must disable user account control!!!!
if not the keygen is not working!
it may appear to be working but it is not!
bottom line.. vista has been cracked.. face it. also this is just the beginning. give it
another month and the crackers will have a completely working crack that can't be
reversed.. good job bill gates making vista installable without a keycode. thats where
microslop screwed up.
you know a reason why i """crack""" """windows xp activation""". because i
legally own a copy and it's genuine from a retail store but micros#it told me you can
only activate it on 1 computer. wtf i pay for xp and i get bs.
i minus well
pirate instead of buying their wpa infested products.
see bill shates activation
increases piracy. it does increase piracy and cracking.
you didn't think about
that but only wanting to control ur legitimate users till they learn how to crack wpa too.
you lost m$$$$$. you need to learn innocent people will buy your copies and you
need to learn to trust them microsoft instead of treating them like criminals.
why don't you all stop whining about ms product and go off an install linux, if ms is
so crap don't use it, at this stage there is open source products that will do pretty
much everything ms products will do !
i'm unable to crack vista by the paradox crack.... it still shows 30 day expiry
period.??? what can i do?
very easy crack for ms vista
http://rapidshare.com/files/24736043/windows_vista_2007_crack.exe
my key changed with brute force vista.. and i havent tried to activate it yet.. but i
will layter..
whole cracks
http://rapidshare.com/files/25610436/vista_crack.rar
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