T LOOKS LIKE Microsoft's unhackable OS activation malware has been hacked.
There is an active thread at the Keznews forums (account needed), and a summary on its main page about the crack.
It is a simple brute force attack, dumb as a rock that just tries keys. If it gets one, you manually have to check it and try activation. Is is ugly, takes hours, is far from point and click, but it is said to work. I don't have any Vista installs because of the anti-user licensing so I have not tested it personally.
aye a few hundred quid down the
drain really.That's why i'm more than likely either buy a new pc/laptop
with vista pre-installed or just crack it for this computer OR keep xp
I have been on Vista for a Month and have to say it is far far faster than i imagined. It is the best designed operating syestem to date and is easy to use with brillient utilitys that show you what the syestem is doing and where the bottlenecks and problems are. Not all programmes work so for the most part people are going to hold off buying until sp1 and application programming gets up to speed. I have xp on another drive so i get the best of both, Vista will be the platform everybody uses in the future trust me. I thought it would be buggy but for me its been a dream, love the 64bit platform and very excited about future 64bit mutlithread applications and games.
Home users like it, few quirks here and there, but they will be fixed in time. 98, 2000, XP were all the same in their early days.
Reviewers are the people coming up with bad reviews about it, home users get on very well with it. For one I am very happy to see Microsoft have included Mahjong Titans in the free games, so now I can play it without being online. Only problem is once you run out of moves you can't randomize where the blocks are like you can in Linux distros.
