Bad news about about SP1 for Vista
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 6.6.2007
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WGA will scan the computer for any boot manager that fakes the boot up. ie-vloader."
My thought and let me know if Im wrong but I beleive that if a user wad to hide the bootprog files and/or lock them that the user should be ok...anyone have a better idea??
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that will not be a problem to tha hackers...they will find a way :)
one misstep and they'll mess up legitimate linux's bootloader... that would be *very*
ugly.
if they could that then why haven't they done it already?
like xp the hackers
will just put out a patched version of wga.
so much for my dualboot legit fedora/vista system. i cant imagine that ms will miss that.
its like i always say.
"as long as there is some there to say it
cant be done, there will be someone there to prove it wrong."
somedude
umm apparently someone edit my post and made it "look" like i went to the conference!
it was speedy_b that went....just want to give credit where credits due.....see original
post that came from www.zero.editboard.com
u click the discussion at the bottom of this thread u will see my original post
i don't get it, why woud ms want to target the bootup processes ? wasn't the issue for
wga to target the fake oem by finding the bios emulation thing ? boot is what makes the
computer start ? what's it got to do with anything ?
it's time to make a keygen to activate windows by phone...and all this have an end!!!
yeah it is about time someone from one of the hacker communitie creates a keygen to
activate windows vista by phone, microsoft will cry if that happens
cause although keygens may generate legit keys, they may be legit keys that microsoft
activation servers flag as not put out to public or sold, as like that not so legit!
what humans make humans can break... :)
i'm not worried at all
have a
nice day ya'll
i hate vista....so why bother what sp1 will do?
i want my money back! oh wait i did not pay for anything.
why would i want sp1 when vista works fine at the moment? why this need to upgrade all
the time. if it works, don't fix it!!!!
t's funny how people react to microsoft security enhancements. i have seen this story
before, microsoft comes up with a new checkpoint and hackers rip it down within 24 hours.
lets remember some of the previous follies
wga
vista activation -
oops.....
windows xp sp2 - no go
windows xp sp1a - not quite
microsoft
office various versions
end result, vista sp1 will be a joke. even if they
managed to finally block out the hackers, disabling windows update will stop anything bill
can throw at you. with paradox alone your invulnerable, just be smart, don't worry!!!
ed bott does us a service of talking about the failure called "microsoft product
activation".
http://blogs.zdnet.com/bott/?p=219
wot the hell 'll ms do if we use a modded bios to activate vista???ms really screwed by
allowing oem activatn,,,,,,,,,
eth0 or some other scene group will crack that mangy wga protection.
i love windows vista !
but i hate the way ms is taking
......for any change
it require you to activate or you are thift wtf
yeah! dont worry about what ms say, even if the releaase a new feature included in sp1
for vista somebody will always find the way to shut down wga..
i'm using vista
ultimate at home and it works fine
no need for updates as long as you have the
symantec antivirus for vista always up to date
because it require you to shut
off auto update and firewall
symantec for vista have a firewall of its own
thats why.
the feature that i've revealing today shows that microsoft has built into vista a
function that allows anyone to extend the operating system's activation deadline not just
three times, but many times. the same one-line command that postpones vista's activation
deadline to 120 days can be used an indefinite number of times by first changing a
registry key from 0 to 1.
step 1. while running a copy of windows vista that hasn't
yet been activated, click the start button, type regedit into the search box, then press
enter to launch the registry editor.
step 2. explore down to the following
registry key:
hkey_local_machine \ software \ microsoft \ windows nt \
currentversion \ sl
step 3. right-click the registry key named skiprearm and
click edit. the default is a dword (a double word or 4 bytes) with a hex value of
00000000. change this value to any positive integer, such as 00000001, save the change,
and close the registry editor.
step 4. start a command prompt with
administrative rights. the fastest way to do this is to click the start button, enter cmd
in the search box, then press ctrl+shift+enter. if you're asked for a network username
and password, provide the ones that log you into your domain. you may be asked to approve
a user account control prompt and to provide an administrator password.
step 5.
type one of the following two commands and press enter:
slmgr -rearm
or
rundll32 slc.dll,slrearmwindows
either command uses vista's built-in
software licensing manager (slmgr) to push the activation deadline out to 30 days after
the command is run. changing skiprearm from 0 to 1 allows slmgr to do this an indefinite
number of times. running either command initializes the value of skiprearm back to 0.
step 6. reboot the pc to make the postponement take effect. (after you log in, if
you like, you can open a command prompt and run the command slmgr -xpr to see vista's new
expiration date and time. i explained the slmgr command and its parameters in my feb. 15
article.)
step 7. to extend the activation deadline of vista indefinitely,
repeat steps 1 through 6 as necessary
with comments i've read from ms, my guess is the infinate trial loophole will be closed
also. no worries though, to date there hasn't been one ms program that hasn't been
compromised....think thats gonna change??
and for the dope that says "who needs a
sp1?"....maybe he should try running a non-service pack version of xp for a week....might
change his view of why service packs are important. took 2 of em before xp was fully
stable. now if they can only totally disable the uac in the service pack........that
would make me happy......
why not chainload bootmgr with a patched bootmgr? as far as i know, loaders just rewrite
the memory section of the bda, at bootup. isn´t bootmgr capable of chainloading another
bootmgr on another partition?
grtz,
pxor
Windows 7 RTM 7600.16385.090713-1255 HERE !
hummm
By Bill Gates on 07.06.2007 - 00:06