Vista activation crack is a joke, but the dream lives on
By John Pospisil
The hacker behind last week’s ”Brute Force” Vista key generator has admitted that it was all just joke.
“Fact is the Brute Force keygen is a joke, I never intended for it to work. I have never gotten it to work; everyone should stop using it,” wrote the hacker using the name Computer User in the KezNews forum.
“Everyone who said they got a key a probably lying or mistaken! I suggest everyone uses the 120 day 3x rearm method … keygen is a waste of time guys sorry”
In our report about the keygen last week, George Gardner noted that the Brute Force keygen was unlikely to work:
“Many users on the KexNews forum have simply given up after a few hours of searching for keys; while, some have actually calculated that the chance to find a successful key could take months, if not years.”
Even Microsoft’s senior product manager of Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), Alex Kochis, was dismissive of the keygen:
“There really isn’t much intelligence involved and the goal is to just randomly cycle through key after key after key until a legit one is found. One report indicates that the script written to perform this attack goes through about a thousand keys every half an hour; frankly, that’s a pretty slow brute force attack.”
The bottom line with the Brute Force keygen is that while it could work in theory, the chances of it actually working in real life are close to zero. Despite the admission that the keygen was a joke, some users on KezNews are persisting with Brute Force.
“I’ve run it out of sheer curiosity almost 4 days. Nothing. I’m beginning to feel like a gambler – the ‘big
win’ has gotta come soon (or not!),” wrote Cyba.
And Marct wrote: “It’s still running for me but I did reduce the generation a bit starting all key with the same digit. Dunno if that could help find something or not, anyway … I will let it run until Sunday and see.”
And still other users refuse to believe that it was all just a gag and that Computer User has lost his nerve:
“In my opinion one of the reasons (Computer User) is now saying that it doesn’t work , bla bla bla, is because this went to big and he is shitting his pants every second because of it!!! Sorry ComputerUser!!” wrote OliveiraJMR.
It seems that for some Vista hackers, at least, the dream of a Vista activation crack lives on.
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December 19th, 2007
hello my friend
i read your article and i dont understand your last line
“It seems that for some Vista hackers, at least, the dream of a Vista activation crack lives on.”
indeed there is a vista activation crack programme that do work. i have checked it and it really works like a charm. so it is not a dream of activation crack it has been made about 4 months ago.
sorry to say your last line need to be edited by you.
and i say it in advance that it is not a joke its a truth
good day
January 6th, 2008
vista activation crack i there my friend has it
March 10th, 2008
So the author don’t reply to people who posts?
Come on at least reply Mr. John Pospisil
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