Windows 7 product activation cracked already

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Geoff Spick29 July 2009, 9:28 PM

In what promises to be a very long-running battle, crackers have already found a way around the product activation in Windows 7




A file (that you can find and download from some murky places on the Internet) allows users to activate and use the RTM version of Windows 7 (freely available on torrent sites) and have it pass Windows Genuine Advantage activation. The file makes use of a flaw in the OEM distribution of Windows 7.

The file is called Windows 7 LOADER and while it currently works, we think it will only be a matter of time before Microsoft updates the WGA component to block further activations. At which point some edits will be made and a new version of the cracker will appear. In the mean time virus/spyware types will be buzzing all over this file like flies to dung, adding their own "special" extras to spread their own wares.

While Microsoft probably writes off a small but significant proportion of sales to piracy, it must have been hoping for a better ride with Windows 7 and should have added some extra layers of protection developed from lessons learned from Vista. With just under three months to launch, perhaps it was hoping for an easier time and it remains to be seen how this game of cat and mouse evolves.

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Tin (Senior Forumologist):

So does 7 use the same OEM certificate system as Vista?

29 July 2009, 10:50 PM (7 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

GeoffSpick (User):

The technical details are coming to light, check them out here - http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/07/29/windows-7-ultimate-cracked-and-activated-permanently-with-oem-slp-master-product-key-with-slic-2-1/

29 July 2009, 11:27 PM (7 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Tin (Senior Forumologist):


So Vista was even easier to pirate successfully than XP, but they decided to keep the same method alive. Brilliant work MS.

30 July 2009, 9:51 AM (7 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Me In Oz (Cornerstone member):

Quoting Tin:
So Vista was even easier to pirate successfully than XP

Come on, Tin! Nothing is hard for a long-time unemployed computer guru, angry at the world for not giving him a $200K a year job, with malicious intent.



30 July 2009, 10:31 AM (7 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

The Big Baboo (User):

Wow !!!! When I finished working :) I was earning the grand sum of $35,000/year :)Guess I should be loaded to the eyeballs and beyond with malicious intent :)

09 November 2009, 2:18 PM (4 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

PALADiN (New user):

MS just got owned.

I'm running Windows 7 RTM using an activator by Hazar (which is based on the loader mentioned in this article).

30 July 2009, 1:05 PM (7 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

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