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Indian cracks Microsoft's anti-piracy program

Alok Sharma | June 21, 2005 14:53 IST

An Indian researcher has breached the much-touted "impenetrable" Windows Genuine Advantage of Microsoft.

Bangalore-based Debasis Mohanty has cracked WGA through an "easy-to-exploit" weakness in the software for generating illegal copies of the Windows XP programme.

Microsoft confirmed the claims of Mohanty, but sought to downplay it saying, "It represents very little threat." A company spokesperson said they did expect counterfeiters to try a number of different methods to circumvent safeguards provided by WGA.

WGA is an anti-piracy programme that keeps a tab on consumers whether they are running legitimately licensed copies of Windows XP.

Mohanty has posted a detailed proof-of-concept programme on the high-profile security mailing list of the software giant, showing how the WGA validation check can be tricked to generate key codes for use on illegal copies of the software.

Using a secondary Microsoft validation tool called 'genuinecheck.Exe', Mohanty claims to have made it possible for people to trick the safeguard mechanism and download and run the supposedly restricted software from Microsoft's download centre, he said.

http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2005/jun/21ms.htm

wtf? I bypassed this months ago myself muwahahaha

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you should remove that. you arn't allowed to hint towards warez related material... this (im pretty sure) falls into that warez category.

BTW, i just used my LEGIT windows XP... to validate myself... so glad you guys are proud you bypassed this.. be glad you stole something :)

you should remove that.  you arn't allowed to hint towards warez related material... this (im pretty sure) falls into that warez category.

BTW, i just used my LEGIT windows XP... to validate myself... so glad you guys are proud you bypassed this.. be glad you stole something :)

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I didnt use any warez tool...I used M$'s validation key code generator. And I have a valid copy of windows sitting next to me...

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