Microsoft Kills Windows and Office Validation Assistant Anti-Piracy Efforts
Microsoft's anti-piracy efforts will undertake a major overhauling. The Redmond company plans to take down both the Windows Validation Assistant and the Office Validation Assistant.
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5.7.2007 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation - WGA Validation Crack 1.9.9.1 (1.9.0009.1)
You can still use the WGA Patcher to get only Updates through Windows Update!
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19.2.2009 First Microsoft Genuine Office Validation Download on Download Center
Microsoft has posted the first Office download which has Genuine Office Validation (not required yet). It is sounds.exe the download enables sound in Office 2000,XP and 2003.
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28.4.2006 Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool 1.31
The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks computers for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom—and helps remove any infection found.
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12.7.2007 Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool 1.35
The hack was performed by two security experts working with Serious Organized Crime Agency, the U.K. government intelligence group.
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13.11.2007 McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool 2.0.155.1
McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool removes all 2005, 2006, and 2007 versions of McAfee consumer products.
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17.8.2008 Norton Removal Tool for Windows 2009.0.5.26
Freeware - Norton Removal Tool will remove a failed installation or a damaged Norton product.
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16.2.2009 Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)
The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 computers for and helps remove infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom.
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12.9.2006 Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool 1.19 (August 2006, KB890830)
The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 computers for and helps remove infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom.
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8.8.2006 Watermark Removal Script - Remove Watermark From Windows 7 RC Build 7100
Windows 7 RC WatermarkLike Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 Watermark, Windows 7 RC Build 7100 also has watermark which many users don’t like to have on their desktop.
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16.5.2009 How to recover from the Vista Validation update
Well, I wasn't paying attention and installed the validaton update. Oops.
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17.12.2006 Windows Vista Validation Update (KB929391)
Microsoft have just posted a Windows Vista Genuine Validation Update to Windows Update.
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16.12.2006 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation 1.7.18.1
Thanks to setter_gr who report this download in our forum. This is newest version on WGA Validation patcher.
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27.3.2007 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation 1.9.40.0
Windows Genuine Advantage Validation 1.9.40.0 [2 Authors Exclusive]. Users who have an unlicensed version of , as we know, can not updates from the official site.
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2.4.2009 Bypass and Disable Genuine Windows Validation Check
Microsoft has made it harder for illegitimate, or for whatever reason, your copy of Microsoft Windows couldn't be validated, users to retrieve updates via Microsoft Updates or Windows Update, and download programs from Microsoft Download Center.
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19.5.2006 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation 1.5.530.0 crack
You can still use the WGA Patcher to get only Updates through Windows Update!
If theres a new crack, Ill added to this website! Sorry for this problem!
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26.9.2006 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation 1.5.723.1 CRACK
Next version of WGA. How to bypass Windows Genuine Advantage Check on Windows XP 1.5.723.1?
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26.12.2006 Remove Windows Vista Validation update (KB929391)
channi011 write this Solution to Windows Vista Validation update (KB929391) - READ CAREFULLY AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS.
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2.1.2006 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation v1.5.716.0 CRACK
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17.11.2006 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation v1.5.722.0 Crack
How to bypass Windows Genuine Advantage Check on Windows XP 1.5.722.0?
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13.12.2006 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation v1.7.36.0 patch
I just found the latest Windows Genuine Advantage Validation v1.7.36.0 cracked by Team ETH0. Release date of this cracked WGA is on 17 May 2007.
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20.5.2007 Microsoft to offer code protection, validation to other software developers
Microsoft is planning to deliver on October 1 to third-party software developers a set of technologies that will allow them to add code protection and activation mechanisms to their own software.
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13.7.2007 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation v1.8.32.0 CRACKED
A new version of Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool has been released by Microsoft.
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26.10.2008 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation v1.8.32.1 CRACKED
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1.12.2008 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation - WGA Patcher v 1.5.708.0 Download
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28.9.2006 Uninstall or Remove Windows Vista Validation Update (KB929391) and Workarounds
Windows Vista Validation Update (
KB929391) has just been
released and deployed to Vista computer that are what called by Microsoft as “
frankenbuild” system that use the workaround of mixing files from RC and RTM build to activate the Windows Vista.
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20.12.2006 Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Final Genuine Windows Validation Bypass and Crack
Microsoft has released final version of Internet Explorer 7, the next generation of web browser with enhanced security and most-want features.
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3.11.2006 Windows Genuine Advantage Validation - WGA Patcher v1.7.17.0 Crack
Windows Genuine Advantage Validation v1.7.17.0 Crack for Windows XP.
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27.2.2007 Windows Vista Genuine Validation Fails Due to Incorrect BIOS Data
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this post in his blog. Even if the operating system was activated properly.
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27.6.2007 Norton Removal Tool 2010 to Uninstall Norton Antivirus 2010
In past we have covered how to uninstall & remove Norton internet security & Norton Personal firewall.
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11.9.2009Microsoft Kills Windows Validation and Office Validation Anti-Piracy Efforts
Microsoft's anti-piracy
efforts will undertake a major
overhauling. The Redmond
company plans to take down
both the Windows Validation
Assistant and the Office
Validation Assistant.
However, Microsoft is
going to fill in the empty
spaces left by the
discontinuing of WVA and OVA
with Windows Comparison Guide
(WCG) and the Office
Comparison Guide (OCG).
Additionally there is also the
old trust Windows Genuine
Advantage and Office Genuine
Advantage that will survive
the anti-piracy cancelled
services. Still, this is not
the end of the upgrades in
stored for the Microsoft
anti-piracy programs. Feature
updates and additions are also
planned to be introduced.
"We're finally
taking down both the Windows
Validation Assistant and the
Office Validation Assistant.
The WVA was a prototype for
WGA; it was the first tool
launched that offered a
web-based validation that
could help find evidence that
a copy wasn't genuine that
otherwise might be hard for
the average person to find
(such as bad or leaked product
keys, etc.) The good news is
that we're replacing the WVA
with the Windows Comparison
Guide (WCG) and the Office
Comparison Guide (OCG). These
guides offer much of the same
functionality as the WVA did
by walking users through a
quiz that helps them match the
anti-piracy features of the
products they have, but
without the web-based
validation. For that we're
pointing people directly to
WGA,"
revealed
Alex
Kochis, a senior licensing
manager on the WGA team. ..
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04.07.2007MS Office Validation Now Mandatory
Want to use the extra features
within Office? Be prepared to
verify that your copy of the
productivity suite is genuine.
While the so-called Office
Genuine Advantage has been
around since April, Microsoft
did not make it mandatory
until Friday...
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28.10.2006Next Office:Mac will bring back VBA support
The Mac business users' community was in an uproar two years ago over the removal of a key feature of Office that was created, ironically, for
Windows. Now, the company that "listens to its customers" is finding a way to restore it...
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14.05.2008Office Genuine Advantage (OGA), Now Mandatory
If you don't like the
mandatory anti-piracy checks
that Microsoft now enforces
for Windows, brace yourself.
The Microsoft Office
productivity and collaboration
suite is about to get a
similar program.
The company's Office
Genuine Advantage (OGA)
program will require mandatory
validation of Office software
starting October 27, the
software vendor quietly
disclosed today. After that
date, any Office Online
templates downloaded from
within the Office 2007
Microsoft Office System
applications will require
validation of legitimacy.
Similarly, starting in
January, users of Office
Update will have to validate
the legitimacy of their Office
software before they can use
the service, Microsoft
added.
Users
absolutely hated the first
iteration of the Windows
Genuine Advantage (WGA)
program, and their protests
pressured the company into
revising it about a year after
it launched in July 2005.
Microsoft said in a
press statement that the
validation process will be
"quick and simple" for
users. The OGA program,
currently in the testing
phase, is now available in 26
languages worldwide. OGA is a
sibling program to WGA; both
automatically check a user's
version of Microsoft software
to ensure it is not
counterfeit or pirated.
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27.10.2006Microsoft: Removal of Group Policy Tool from Vista 'Not Significant'
As part of a request to help modify its apparent stance on the upcoming removal of Group Policy Management Console from Microsoft's Windows Vista
Service Pack 1, a company spokesperson told BetaNews, "The removal of the GPMC tool with Service Pack 1 is not significant to the majority of
Windows Vista users."..
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05.09.2007IBM unveils 'cloud validation' to harden security and lower TCO
After last month's launch of a set of cloud development tools, IBM this week rolled out new global "cloud validation" and consulting services
for its cloud computing program, two new customers, and a cloud computing platform for China...
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27.11.2008Office 2007 'Stun Switch' Nothing New
This week, Microsoft is
repeating statements made over
the past seven years that
Office's Reduced
Functionality Mode is nothing
other than a mechanism to
prevent users who won't let
the company verify the
product's authenticity from
doing more than testing how it
works. What's the cause of
recent confusion over RFM and
product validation?..
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21.11.2006Free Trojan Removal Tool for OS X Available Now
SecureMac has introduced a free Trojan Detection Tool for Mac OS X. The DNSChanger Removal Tool detects and removes spyware targeting Mac OS X. Called
DNSChanger Trojan and also known as OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse the software attacks users attempting to play a fake video file. Upon attempting to play
the video, the victim receives the following message: "Quicktime Player is unable to play movie file. Please click here to download new version of
codec."
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10.01.2008Disappearance Of Vista Language Packs
On Friday 24 August, an internal process change inadvertently caused the current versions of the Windows Vista language packs offered as Ultimate
Extras to be withdrawn earlier than normal in preparation for release of new updates to these language packs. This situation has since been resolved
and the language packs are once more available to Windows Vista Ultimate customers via Windows Update. The content of the language packs themselves
has not been changed.
Finer points:
▪ Validation of these language packs is handled in the
same manner as security updates.
▪ If they are accessed directly from Microsoft.com Download Center, then validation is required to
download.
▪ If they are accessed via the Windows Update control panel, then validation is required before updates will appear.
▪ If Automatic Update (AU) is enabled in Windows Update, then all of these updates will install automatically. There is no validation on AU.
jcxp.net - 30.08.2007
Heck, I'm Son of a Software Pirate
Joe Wilcox: About a year ago, Microsoft brandished my mom a software pirate. Now, I've been nabbed, too.
She professed her innocence, as
did I. A Microsoft support technician spent about four hours fixing mom's problem. A corrupt file trigged the piracy validation failure. I used it as
evidence that Windows Genuine Advantage does indeed generate false positives. But Microsoft disagreed, saying there was no false positive. Mom was
always legal; the system worked. Say what?
I never thought Microsoft would come after me? On Friday night, my copy of Office 2007
Ultimate failed to validate. Shoot, that makes me a pirate, too. Weeks earlier, Office 2007 activated just fine, so I was surprised by the sudden
non-genuine status. I re-ran the validation mechanism several times and once for Windows Vista. The operating system validated just fine.
winbeta.org - 17.12.2007
Addressing WGA validation issues
From what I personally noticed while reading about the WGA issue around the web, it was much more than just a "very few customers were affected".
Perhaps Microsoft should rethink their validation strategy after this near-disaster?
Earlier today (25 August) we began
receiving reports of Windows Vista customers running genuine systems but experiencing failures when attempting a Windows Genuine Advantage validation.
This situation has since been resolved and validations are now being processed successfully.
We've since learned that very
few customers were affected. Sr. Product Manager Alex Kochis and a team of engineers have been working on the issue and has blogged about it to keep customers
up-to-date. Customers who received an incorrect validation response can fix their system by revalidating. I'd encourage anyone who received a validation failure since Friday evening to visit this site now; after
successfully revalidating, any affected system should be rebooted to ensure that genuine-only features are restored.
Alex will be
updating his blog with information as more information comes to light.
winbeta.org - 26.08.2007
Windows Vista Validation Update (KB929391)
Microsoft have just posted a
Windows Vista Genuine
Validation Update to Windows
Update. The update provides
the latest information to the
Windows Vista validation
components, and is marked as
an "Important" update.
It seems that the aim
of the update is to further
prevent "cracked" copies of
Windows Vista from being able
to run. Install the Windows
Vista validation component
updates to make sure that your
copy of Windows Vista is
genuine and is correctly
licensed. If a problem is
detected, the update will
provide additional
instructions.
jcxp.net - 15.12.2006
Microsoft to add the Genuine Advantage ‘nag' to Office
Microsoft is set to begin a pilot of a new Genuine Advantage anti-piracy mechanism for Office that will add a “nag-like” feature, akin to
what is now part of Windows Vista, to Office.
Office already currently includes an Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) validation mechanism (for Office XP and Office 2007), but Microsoft doesn’t do
a whole lot to “punish” those it deems to be running non-Genuine versions of Office. However, as part of a new OGA notifications pilot program — which
Microsoft is launching in Chile, Italy, Spain and Turkey, according to an April 8 announcement buried in a Q&A on Microsoft’s Web site —
Microsoft is set to turn up the unpleasantness a notch.
neowin.net - 09.04.2008
Microsoft issues warning to VLK customers over WGA fail
Phil Liu of Microsoft has
reported problems with the
Windows Genuine Advantage
authentication method for
Volume License Key (VLK)
customers and a temporary
work-around.
"Just
a heads up on an issue related
to (Volume) VLK validation.
On Monday and Tuesday of this
week (Oct 2-3), some VLK
customers may have experienced
problems with WGA validation.
If a Windows XP system with a
VLK recently began failing
validation or reporting as
non-genuine, then they may
experiencing this problem.
The problem was the result of
an issue on the Microsoft
server side, and we are still
investigating the cause. We
regret any inconvenience this
may have caused you, and I am
personally working to get the
information you need to
resolve this issue.
We do have steps available
that affected customers can
take to correct the problem,
and we'll continue to work on
solutions and post them on
this forum."
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 05.10.2006
Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)
The Microsoft Windows
Malicious Software Removal
Tool checks Windows XP,
Windows 2000, and Windows
Server 2003 computers for and
helps remove infections by
specific, prevalent malicious
software-including Blaster,
Sasser, and Mydoom. When the
detection and removal process
is complete, the tool displays
a report describing the
outcome, including which, if
any, malicious software was
detected and removed. The tool
creates a log file named
mrt.log in the %WINDIR%debug
folder.
This tool
is not a replacement for an
anti-virus product. To help
protect your computer, you
should use an anti-virus
product.
Microsoft
will release an updated
version of this tool on the
second Tuesday of each month.
New versions will be made
available through this web
page, Windows Update, and the
Malicious Software Removal
Tool Web site on
Microsoft.com.
To
have the newest versions
automatically delivered and
installed as soon as they are
released, set the Automatic
Updates feature to Automatic.
The version of this tool
delivered by Windows Update
runs on your computer once a
month, in the background. If
an infection is found, the
tool will display a status
report the next time you start
your computer. If you would
like to run this tool more
than once a month, run the
version that is available from
this Web page or use the
version on the Malicious
Software Removal Tool Web
site.
neowin.net - 13.12.2006
Critical Windows Patch
Expected
Malware removal tool update is
among scheduled December
fixes...
pcworld.com - 09.12.2005
Microsoft: Removal of Group Policy Tool from Vista SP1 'Not Significant'
As part of a request to help modify its apparent stance on the upcoming removal of Group Policy
Management Console from Microsoft's Windows Vista Service Pack 1, a company spokesperson told BetaNews, "The removal of the GPMC tool with
Service Pack 1 is not significant to the majority of Windows Vista users."
This despite the continued presence of remnants of
the GPMC campaign, which touted its inclusion in Vista as a boon. "The Group Policy Management Console, or GPMC, was available as a download for
Windows XP and Windows Server 2003," reads one
TechNet page.
"A scriptable Microsoft Management Console, GPMC offered a single administrative tool for managing Group
Policy. GPMC is now built right into Windows Vista. This means that whenever you're ready to create or edit , you'll have easy
access to the best tool for the job."..
winbeta.org - 05.09.2007
Update on WGA Validation Issues
We're continuing to investigate what happened but here's a quick update to yesterday's post. The issue with processing validations began Friday
afternoon at about 3:30 PM Pacific time and through a combination of posts to our forum and customer support the issue was discovered by evening.
By about 11:15 AM Pacific on Saturday morning the issue affecting the validation service had been analyzed and resolved such that
validations were again being processed properly. Our data shows that fewer than 12,000 systems were affected worldwide and that many of those have
already revalidated and are fixed. This is encouraging news but we want to emphasize that one bad customer experience is one too many and that we're
committed to learning from this experience and working to prevent this type of event from occurring again.
We're also looking
into the reports of comments made about the expected length of the issue and how support inquiries were handled overall during this time. I heard a
report that one of our support folks indicated that the issues would not be fixed until Tuesday, that was incorrect. We'll be looking closely at
how/why that statement was made.
winbeta.org - 28.08.2007
Office 2007 System now available on MSDN
MSDN Subscribers can now get
their hands on Office 2007
Professional, it has just been
made available.
Office Professional 2007
includes the following
Microsoft Office system
programs: Microsoft Office
Access 2007, Microsoft Office
Excel® 2007, Microsoft Office
Outlook® 2007 with Business
Contact Manager, Microsoft
Office PowerPoint® 2007,
Microsoft Office Publisher
2007 and Microsoft Office Word
2007.
Additionally
the following applications
have been added under "Office
2007 Desktop Programs" and
they include: Office Groove
2007, Office InfoPath 2007,
Office OneNote 2007, Office
Project 2007 and Office Visio
2007.
neowin.net - 13.11.2006
Microsoft Offers 'Office Live' Storage to Office Users
Twenty months after the company first brought forth its vision of Web-driven applications, Microsoft announced this morning a re-targeting of its
Office Live approach, spinning off "Office Live Workspace" as a free service centered around individuals who already use Microsoft Office...
betanews.com - 01.10.2007
