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Microsoft Genuine Advantage Cracked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the absolutely-secure dept.

piyush ranjan writes "An Indian researcher has cracked the much-touted "impenetrable" Windows Genuine Advantage of Microsoft. According to Microsoft this service would soon require all Windows users to verify their license before downloading updates."

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  1. It was probably made easy to keep Chinese support by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    since MSFT is trying to expand into there and hasn't yet been able to get China to even crack down on IP enforcement on their own government ministries, let alone the military factories.

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  2. OLD NEWS - already fixed by Microsoft in May by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Microsoft has already fixed it by removing the link to GenuineCheck.exe from there website. A hack would be decompiling GenuineCheck.exe and turning it into a keygen.

    And this was back on May 24th, Slash-losers.

    Keep looking for ways to bring the great Bill Gates down ... you still haven't done it, and never will.

    Haha.

  3. Special olympics by pluggo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only thing better than winning the Special Olympics is not being retarded. :)

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  4. Re:You'd think this would be obvious by Scudsucker · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Why should Microsoft, or any other corporation, use its money and waste its time providing patches and other OS updates to people who have illegally obtained the OS?

    Because leaving all those machines unpatched hurts their own customers, dumbass. They need to fix their priorities or risk loosing the privledge of getting our money for their products.