Microsoft to crack down on Vista cracks
Microsoft will feed Windows Vista users an update in the next week to finger illegal copies installed with cracks that the company will bust when it rolls out Service Pack 1 (SP1) in mid-March.
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22.2.2008 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 Warning: ZoneAlarm 7.1 Reported to Kill Vista Cracks
VistaLoader and Paradox gone! The day has come, it is over the happy Vista cracking era, and no it is not Microsoft it is a 3rd party security software. Thanks to Steve Jobs who report this on his blog.
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3.7.2007 The W0W Vista Cracks AIO V2
Thanks to Dharmil for this download - W0W Vista Cracks AIO V2.
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6.6.2007 Top Rated Windows Vista Cracks - When WGA Fails
inuyasha62....Is now Famous (Softpedia). There is little tangible proof of the success of the Windows Genuine Advantage mechanism. Microsoft itself has only statistics as the palpable sign of the fact that the WGA is hard at work.
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30.5.2007 Descriptions of Windows Vista cracks
Thanks to inuyasha who prepare this article for
his blog. Here is descriptions of most used Vista cracks and how well they work.
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27.5.2007 Descriptions of Windows Vista cracks
Thanks to inuyasha who prepare this article for
his blog. Here is descriptions of most used Vista cracks and how well they work.
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27.5.2007 Microsoft to crack down on Vista cracks
Microsoft will feed Windows Vista users an update in the next week to finger illegal copies installed with cracks that the company will bust when it rolls out Service Pack 1 (SP1) in mid-March.
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22.2.2008 Currently the BEST and EASIEST Windows Vista Activation Cracks
There are quite a lot of Windows Vista cracks around the Internet nowadays. You wouldn't know which one actually works. There's a crack from DR CHANG and it has screenshot proof that his crack works. However, Microsoft very quickly retaliate by releasing an update on "Windows Update - Vista Validation" which makes DR CHANG's crack unusable. Here are a few methods of activating Windows Vista based on what I read on forums and websites.
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20.3.2007 The W0W Vista Cracks AIO V2
Thanks to Dharmil for this download - W0W Vista Cracks AIO V2.
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6.6.2007 Vista Update Fingers Activation Cracks
Microsoft Corp. has been lowering expectations about Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) since before it even confirmed there would be one. Numerous times, company executives and managers have told users and the press that Vista SP1 would not be like Windows XP SP2, the last desktop operating system service pack the company released.
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23.2.2008 Warning: ZoneAlarm 7.1 Reported to Kill Vista Cracks
VistaLoader and Paradox gone! The day has come, it is over the happy Vista cracking era, and no it is not Microsoft it is a 3rd party security software. Thanks to Steve Jobs who report this on his blog.
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3.7.2007 Microsoft Downplays Windows Vista Encryption Cracks
The concept behind Cold-Boot attacks on encryption keys stored in the computer's DRAM is not new. The implications of physical memory attacks, in the context of Windows Vista BitLocker Drive Encryption, were discussed at Hack in the Box 2006 by Douglas MacIver, Penetration Engineer, Microsoft Penetration Team.
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26.2.2008 Very Good Results in Updating Vista Against Hacks and Cracks
Microsoft claims that it has seen what the company referred to as very good results in fighting Windows piracy with Windows Vista, although it has failed to elaborate on the subject.
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29.7.2008 Top Rated Windows Vista Cracks - When WGA Fails
inuyasha62....Is now Famous (Softpedia). There is little tangible proof of the success of the Windows Genuine Advantage mechanism. Microsoft itself has only statistics as the palpable sign of the fact that the WGA is hard at work.
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30.5.2007 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 Hackers find first Xbox 360 cracks
Only weeks after the introduction of the Xbox 360, hackers appear to have cracked their way into the software that runs the Microsoft game console.
A group called "Team PI Coder" claims to have found a way to extract the source files of Xbox 360 games as they get loaded onto the console.
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18.12.2005 Windows 7: The Transparent Cracks in Codename Translucency
Microsoft has been tiptoeing around Windows 7 since Windows Vista hit the market back in January 2007.
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16.8.2008 Collection of Windows 7 RTM Activation Cracks
New Win7 activation toolkit. This time it’s combined Orbit30 And Hazar’s methods into one crack. Just get yourself Windows 7 releases from GRP or WZT, choose one of the activation methods and you’re good to go. Read instructions first.
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1.11.2009 Windows 7 RTM Activation Cracks Available for Download in the Wild
It was only a matter of time before methods designed to illegally circumvent the antipiracy measures in Windows 7 made their way into the wild.
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14.11.2009 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007Apple's latest headache: some iPhones developing cracks
Posters to Apple's support forums are complaining of what appears to be a defect in the iPhone 3Gs casing, which is causing hairline cracks...
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01.08.2008Vista Update Fingers Activation Cracks
Microsoft has announced an update available to consumers next week which will detect two cracks commonly used to activate pirated copies of the
operating system. One of the cracks refered to as Grace Timer, extended Vista's activation grace period, upto 2099. The other called as OEM BIOS,
modified system files and the PC's BIOS to mimic the product activation done by computer-makers at the factory. If the sniffer detects an
activation hack, it will pop up a warning that includes a link to the removal tool. Although SP1 will block these two cracks, " it's important
to note that this update does not disable the exploits it finds, " says
Alex Kochis. " It
simply alerts customers that exploits exist. " However, MS will release a separate crack-removal tool at the same time that it rolls out the
detection update.
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23.02.2008FTC Cracks Down on Alleged
Spyware Site
Court orders operator of
alleged spyware sites to stop
offering malicious downloads...
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11.11.2005US Gov't Cracks Down On Pirated Games
The US Goverment said
Wednesday that it had executed
32 search warrants in 16
states as part of a crackdown
on devices and chips which
allow pirated games to be
played on gaming consoles...
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02.08.2007New virtualized sandbox, Vista SP2 and other PDC-week leftovers
With so much attention on Windows 7 and Windows Azure last week, a few Microsoft announcements slipped through the cracks during the week-long
Professional Developer Conference (PDC) onslaught.
A few noteworthy announcements...
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04.11.2008SlySoft's AnyDVD cracks BD+...again
SlySoft, a software company located in Caribbean nations Antigua and Barbuda and maker of the AnyDVD ripping utility have announced a software upgrade
that defeats the BD+ protection used on some Blu-ray discs...
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21.03.2008Colossus Cracks Codes Once More
For the first time in more than 60 years a Colossus computer will be cracking codes at Bletchley Park. The machine is being put through its paces to
mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer. The Colossus machine will be pitted against modern computer technology that will also be
used to decipher and read the transmitted messages. Tony Sale, who led the 14-year Colossus re-build project, said it was not clear whether the
wartime technology or a modern PC would be faster at cracking the codes. "A virtual Colossus written to run on a Pentium 2 laptop takes about the
same time to break a cipher as Colossus does," he said.
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15.11.2007Microsoft removes another one of WGA's fangs
This morning Microsoft announced another noteworthy change to its flagship Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program - an update to be rolled out later
this month to all Vista users that will display a WGA warning dialog box when it detects either of two common Vista activation cracks. In the same
announcement, they also for the first time showed screen shots of how WGA changes debuting in SP1 will take some of the bite out of a longstanding
Windows product activation rule as well.
Now-departed Microsoft marketing chief Michael Sievert announced last December that Service Pack 1
would drop Vista’s “reduced functionality mode” (the notorious “kill switch”) in favor of a series of notifications and
nag screens. WGA senior product manager Alex Kochis posted the details of today’s changes, with screen shots, on Microsoft’s Windows
Genuine Advantage blog today.
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22.02.2008Senate Cracks Down on Net Gambling
In a move engineered by Senate
Majority Leader Bill Frist (R
- Tenn.), the United States
Senate on Saturday passed
legislation that effectively
makes it illegal for a bank or
other institution to transfer
funds to organizations that
are involved in so-called
"unlawful Internet
gambling."..
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03.10.2006Security Firm Cracks Sober
Worm
Finnish security firm F-Secure
said on Thursday that it had
cracked the Sober worm, and
could now warn of what URLs it
would check to update itself.
The company claims it had
cracked the code back in May
2005, but chose to stay
silent, only alerting German
authorities...
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09.12.2005Microsoft Seals Cracks
With the impending release of Service Pack 1 for Vista, Microsoft looks to slow down the pirates by cutting off two popular hacks to circumvent the
Windows Genuine Advantage Program.
Testing both these methods of circumventing Windows activation and Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA)
has shown me that SP1 effectively ignores both these hacks. Systems that previously were shown to be genuine prior to the installation of SP1 then
require activation - and if the system isn’t activated it is marked at non-genuine and enters the nag state.
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11.02.2008Apple, AT&T face lawsuit again regarding 3G speeds
Yet another lawsuit is filed against Apple and AT&T claiming that the iPhone fails to live up to 3G speeds, and claims that the AT&T's
infrastructure cannot handle the overwhelming 3G signal in comparison to the huge number of iPhones sold. A long list of problems which were not fixed
or worsened by the iPhone's 2.0 & 2.1 software updates, cracks formed in the iPhone casing due to faulty manufacturing, are also mentioned in the
complaint. This is the second lawsuit filed this week against Apple among many others over the past several months. Apple and AT&T have already been
sued in the past for similar reasons and for not maintaining a consistent 3G service.
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02.02.2009Buy More Vista Licenses, Save 10%
Microsoft has launched the
appropriately named Windows
Vista Additional License
program, which will enable
customers to save a bit of
money if they want to install
Windows Vista on multiple
computers. Before, users had
to purchase a completely new
copy of Vista...
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28.03.2007Corel updates WinDVD to stop AACS hackers
Corel Software, the company
that purchased InterVideo last
August, have issued a
mandatory update to address
the recent cracks that have
extracted volume and title
keys from AACS-protected
Blu-ray and HD DVD titles.
While the hackers responsible
for the AACS cracks did not
mention WinDVD by name, it was
clear that they were using
this software to make their
discoveries. " Our decision
stems from recent reports that
hackers have illegally
obtained certain software
licensing keys and have used
them to duplicate copyrighted
content without prior
authorization. Corel takes
this situation very seriously.
We have been working closely
with our partners and other
industry organizations to
ensure we take the steps
necessary to prevent copyright
infringement from happening in
the future ," a Corel
spokesperson explained in a
press release.
The
AACS system of copy protection
was designed to adapt to
hackers figuring out the
Device Keys for playback
units: compromised Device Keys
can be revoked, and all new
high-definition discs made
afterwards will simply refuse
to play on a revoked device.
According to the AACS spec,
only titles that are produced
after the Device Key has been
revoked will fail to play;
existing titles should still
play back without any
problems. However, Corel warns
WinDVD users that they should
" Please be aware that
failure to apply the update
will result in AACS-protected
HD DVD and BD playback being
disabled ." How and
whether they really plan to go
about disabling playback for
HD discs is unclear.
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08.04.2007Vote For The Best Windows Vista Website!
WinVistaClub, in association with 'Windows Vista - The Official Magazine', has organised a contest to recognise some of the Best Windows Vista
Blogs and Websites.
The following 10 websites have been being declared by the Judges, as the Top 10 Vista websites and have been put up
for a public vote.
MintyWhite Windows Guides
Vista Revisited
Windows Vista Update
Windows Vista For Beginners
Tweaking With Vishal
MaximumPCGuides
Windows Vista Forums
The Road To Know Where
Windows Vista Weblog
Vista & XP Media
Center Support Community
Click
HERE to cast your vote for your
favourite Windows Vista Website, and in the process also get to know some other real good ones !
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02.09.2008HD DVD, Blu-ray "Managed Copy" coming later this year
The managed copy spec
that will allow users to make
copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray
movies is finally nearing
completion. MPAA head honcho
Dan Glickman recently said
that the AACS support behind
managed copy would be ready
before the end of the year, so
we contacted the HD DVD
Promotional Group and our
sources in the industry to see
what's up.
A spokesperson for the
Group told Ars that the full
implementation of managed copy
will appear only once AACS is
finalized. That final
specification is expected in
the coming months, according
to Glickman's comments,
although other sources tell us
off the record that the
commonly occurring AACS cracks
aren't helping with the
timeline.
The hope,
at one studio at least, is to
see managed copy in time for
the 2007 holiday season, and
confidence is high that this
schedule will be met...
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24.05.2007Firefox 2.0 vs. IE7 in Vista: How Close?
Whatever Firefox 2.0 is, it
isn't "sweeping," and
nowhere does that fact become
more evident than in a Windows
Vista test environment. We
started up both IE7 and FF2 in
Vista, and were left
wondering, will Firefox users
be happy using their browser
in Vista without the
degree of changes they'd
experience with IE7?..
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26.10.2006EU cracks down on fake blogger astroturfing
Nothing beats word of mouth for getting people to put their hand in their pockets. So it didn't take long for cheeky marketing departments to cotton
on to the power of blogs and pose as consumers praising their own particular widget to the skies to help lift their top line.
Sneaky, perhaps, but usually legal. Not for much longer, however, as covert commercial blogging - or flogging - will soon be banned by
Brussels.
Under laws due to come into force at the beginning of next year, but likely to be delayed until April for the UK,
companies posing as consumers on fake blogs, providing fake testimonies on consumer rating websites such as TripAdvisor, or writing fake book reviews
on Amazon risk criminal or civil liability.
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04.11.2007Update: "Vista Capable" trial
The ongoing "Vista Capable" class-action lawsuit against Microsoft took an interesting turn the other day when an expert witness for the plaintiffs
claimed that the Redmond company made more than $1.5 billion through their "Vista Capable" marketing campaign. The origins of the trial itself
are to be found in the months prior to Vista's release when many computers were sold with Windows XP and the promise that they would be capable of
running Vista. However, many of these PCs, which sold at a premium and bore the "Vista Capable" label, turned out to be only capable of running
Vista Basic. Hence, Microsoft is being sued for what many would call false advertising.
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06.01.2009Improved startup repair tool, media throttling among Vista SP1 changes
To reassure customers that it really has been addressing consumers' concerns about Vista, Microsoft has made its change log to Windows Vista SP1
publicly available early...
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