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SP1 Unsuccessful in Preventing Vista Hacks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-my-god-i'm-so-shocked dept.

"The other A. N. Other" writes "It seems that Microsoft has been unsuccessful with SP1 in preventing hackers from turning a pirated, non-genuine copy of Vista into genuine copies that pass activation. The article initially looked at two of the most popular hacks (OEM BIOS hack and the grace timer hack) but after a little digging ZDNet were able to transform a non-genuine install into a genuine one. '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.'"

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  1. Vista rocks!!! by bbbaldie · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The DRM overhead in Vista finally made me take the Ubuntu plunge. Happily using Linux for nearly a year now, and getting great pleasure out of reading about the various Vista issues!

  2. Its... by Kildjean · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's microsoft, they are the joke in security... what did you expect...

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  3. Re:Does anyone think MS really cares? by TheNetAvenger · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Here is one of the original articles sparking the Vista curiosity in the Mac universe.

    And this was comparing Vista to Tiger, let alone Leopard that hasn't yet lived up to the speed or stability of Tiger.

    http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/software/microsoft-vista-faster-on-a-mac-pro-than-apples-own-os-x-232402.php

    Then there are the Games, just do a search anywhere, or on any gaming forum that has native binaries for OSX and Windows. Customers are POed that they get 1/2 the frame rates in OSX in a LOT of games. (Yes all OpenGL stuff and optimized for both OSes.) OS X just doesn't have the architecture to game as fast as Windows. (This would be a heavy driver and video implementation topic if we go here. Basically Vista pumps stuff directly through, even in desktop mode, unlike the hybrid double buffing methods like OS X and Linux use.)

    Then do a search on any of the CS3 or newer products from Adobe, running Intel native binaaries on OSX is still slower than running the same Adobe product under Vista on the same hardware.

    Now I'm not going to guarantee you that this is all mainstream news, and that all Mac users even realize these people exist, but don't assume that just because people buy Macs that they mindlessly believe Jobs is a god and everything OS X is perfect.

    Also look up how often 'Leoptard' is now being used...

    OSX doesn't suck, but I'll also argue that Vista doesn't suck either, as much as many here and in the IT world would like to believe.