Saturday, November 14, 2009

Windows 7 Cracked: doesn't even require an OEM key



A new incident of Windows 7 activation hack is spreading in the net. This one's a more creative in that it doesn't require an OEM key at all, and instead bypasses the verification DLL completely.

The new hack nullifies sppcompai.dll, and even deactivates all the reminder popups that would otherwise ask you to activate indefinitely. But This crack closely mirrors an old Vista key workaround, and if Microsoft patched it easily then, they'll patch it easily now.

There's one point to this story It should be very annoying. According to My Digital Life,

The crack is possible probably due to leniency allowed on the part of Microsoft on [the] activation mechanism to avoid getting too many false-positive or complaint on activation error [sic].

It just sucks that this game will continue. Microsoft obviously wants to make activation as painless as possible, but will probably beef up the security next time to fix these sort of exploits. Like most of you, I'm sick of DRM causing headaches for the ones who legally purchased the software, and developments like this certainly won't help.

src: Gizmodo

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