Microsoft product validation cracked!

Yikes when Microsoft announced that it was implementing product validation for the Windows system it sounded like a death keel for pirated software users. Yes no more product support for Windows besides security updates so bye bye freebies. What it does is that Windows requires you to download an Active X control onto your com which does the job of scanning your copy of Windows to determine if there is anything wrong with the serial number. Once it determines that it is genuine it installs a key to enable future downloads. Yet hackers found a way around Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy system last week, only a day after the system went into effect. So even without a valid serial number, users can now use this hack to skirt the system and still get what they usually enjoy in the past. It does this through a simple JavaScript hack that was already circulating. All users had to do was paste a JavaScript URL into the Internet Explorer browser window at the beginning of the process; this turned off the key check, according to users. Details can be found here. A simple cut and past and voila, hackers sure are getting more and more smarter, shows what desperation does to people, it just motivates them to try harder to beat the system.

How it is done ....

Thursday, July 28, 2005Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" cracked in 24h:

window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all' AV sez, "This week, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called 'Genuine Advantage.' It was cracked within 24 hours."

Before pressing 'Custom' or 'Express' buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter:
javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')

It turns off the trigger for the key check.