Windows Vista Hacked again

Pirates have released another ingenious workaround to Vista's copy protection: a hacked copy of Microsoft's yet-to-be-released volume licencing activation server, running in VMware.

Readers Are warned many Vista Hacks are going arounf on the internet which are trojans and virus

Volume Activation 2.0 is one of the more controversial features of Vista: it means that every copy of Vista has to be activated, even the Business/Enterprise volume licenced editions.

The Ultimate Crack for Windows Vista is a new workaround designed to circumvent the activation process of the operating system. The method delivered by the Ultimate Crack is similar to Crack or 2099 Crack; however, unlike the 2009 activation workaround, the Ultimate Crack will only work with Windows Vista Ultimate edition.
With the consumer availability of Vista just five days away, Microsoft has still to deliver on a former promise to tackle the 2099 Crack.

The Ultimate Crack is a combination of a download and user hack. It involves modifying the pkeyconfig.xrm-ms and tokens.dat files. Following a successful bypass of the Vista Ultimate activation process, the operating system will remain active for 180 days. Coincidentally enough, 180 days is the time period that copies of Windows Vista activated via a KMS server deliver before having to contact the Key Management Service (KMS) server and reactivate.
Additionally, there are reports that activating Windows Vista Ultimate edition via the Ultimate Crack will kill Media Center. The explanation is that, due to the changes applied to the tokens.dat file that is related to the version of Vista in use, Vista Ultimate is actually regressed in the activation circumvention process to Vista Enterprise

However, to make life easier for administrators, Microsoft worked in a more convenient system of in-house for en masse activation of PCs called KMS – Key Management Service.

Free copies of Vista and Office 2007

Microsoft is so keen to get Vista and Office 2007 into the hands of early adopters, it is giving copies away.

If you can handle sitting through three videos on each of Vista and Office 2007 explaining their new features, Microsoft will reward you with a free copy of Vista Business and/or Office Professional 2007

No, it’s not a joke. The promotion, which is running till February, is called PowerTogether, and it is obviously designed to ensure that tech enthusiasts have a thorough understanding of the new functionality in both Vista and Office 2007

The idea behind KMS is that you have a single PC running KMS which can then handle activation for all your Vista clients, so that they don’t have to connect back to Microsoft every single time.

The downside of KMS is that the activation is only good for 180 days, to discourage people bringing in their home systems, activating them and wandering off again.

Bearing in mind that KMS wasn’t scheduled to be released until next year, pirates have managed to get hold of KMS and produce a standalone, fully-activated KMS server called “Windows Vista Local Activation Server – MelindaGates”. Tongue-in-cheek of course…the first “cracked” version of Vista was called Vista BillGates.

The download is a VMWare image, and the idea behind it is that you download and install VMWare Player (a legal free download), boot the image and use some VBS script (supplied with the activation server download) to have the client Vista machine get its activation from the local server. And that’s it – no communication back to Microsoft.

Of course, in line with the Volume Activation 2.0 model, this only works with Vista Business and Enterprise editions, as they are the only ones which will accept KMS keys.

Home and Ultimate editions still use normal single-use activation that calls back to Microsoft for validation of the product ID.

On one hand, this is strikes a serious blow to Vista’s activation model. Simply possessing the Vista DVD (which was released on the boards about two weeks ago) wasn’t enough to get you past the robust activation requirements. But if you can load up a local activation server and activate Vista that way, it sort of makes the whole thing redundant.

There are two caveats though. Vista still has to be installed with a KMS product key, so if that activated system ever goes through the WGA system with a known pirated key, Microsoft will be able to track it down and eventually close the loop.

The second is that this is a true KMS server, so the activation is only good for 180 days, then the client needs re-activation.

It’s also still not a crack. In this instance, as with the Vista BillGates release, it’s an activation workaround. Admittedly a very clever one, and one that Microsoft will have a lot more trouble stamping out, but the fact that it’s taken the acquisition of a KMS server shows that Vista activation is still holding strong in its own right.

But is that of any comfort to Microsoft right now, while its yet-to-be-widely-released OS is being pirated like crazy?

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Apparently a working Windows Vista crack below taken from

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/11/05/ways-to-crack-and-disable-wga-validation-tool-and-wga-notifications-plus-download-and-install-bypassing-genuine-windows-validate-requirement/#comment-426742

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December 1st, 2007 03:21

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Here’s a program that will convert your copy of Windows XP/Vista genuine in one click. All you need to do is just click the CrackVista.bat / CrackXP.bat file

http://rapidshare.com/files/73388407/XP_Vista_One_Click_Genuine_Copy.rar

File Size: 1.4 MB

This download includes:

1) LegitCheckControl.dll (Windows Genuine Advantage Validation)
2) OGACheckControl.dll (Office Genuine Advantage Validation)
3) WgaLogon.dll (Windows Genuine Advantage Validation)
4) WGA.reg (Registration Entries)
5) Vista.exe (Vista OEM BIOS Emulation Setup)
6) WgaTray.exe (Windows Genuine Advantage Validation)

Code:

[code]http://rapidshare.com/files/73388407/XP_Vista_One_Click_Genuine_Copy.rar[/code]

File Size: 1.4 MB

The download contains the following files:

1) LegitCheckControl.dll (Windows Genuine Advantage Validation)
2) OGACheckControl.dll (Office Genuine Advantage Validation)
3) WgaLogon.dll (Windows Genuine Advantage Validation)
4) WGA.reg (Registration Entries)
5) Vista.exe (Vista OEM BIOS Emulation Setup)
6) WgaTray.exe (Windows Genuine Advantage Validation)

Instructions:

After you have extracted the files.

1) If you have Windows XP, click on Crack XP.bat and follow the instructions on the screen

2) If you have Windows XP, click on Crack Vista.bat and follow the instructions on the screen

After this, restart you PC and trying updating your windows from microsoft.com
You’ll see the magic.