Windows Vista SP1 activation is still crackable
Posted On Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at at 2/12/2008 11:55:00 PM by nullA JOURNALIST at ZDnet has discovered that Microsoft's Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 (SP1) applied still has crackable Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) activation.
Over the weekend, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes posted up the following bog entry:
"It does seem that Microsoft hasn’t been successful in closing off all the hacks that allow non-genuine copies of Vista SP1 to pass off as genuine ones. After a few minutes of searching the darker corners of the Internet and a few seconds in the Command Prompt I was able to fool Windows into thinking that it was genuine, turning this:
[image of Windows Vista status -- License Status: Notification]
"... into this:
[image of Windows Vista status -- License Status: Licensed]
"Close, but no cigar."
Indeed. Kingsley-Hughes also wrote that the "hack" (sic) is not complicated, but just a matter of "download, run, wait a few seconds, reboot, done," in his words.
So much for the quality of code demonstrated in the Vole's Windows Vista SP1.