Windows XP SP2 cracked already?


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Maybe Microsoft needs to rethink their approach to fight piracy.

But as Microsoft said when they first started this activation crap, their aim is to deter the "common folk" who gets a copy of the CD from their friends. They know that geeks like us will find a way round it.

And frankly activation is quite a pain in the ass since i format my computer and change my hardware quite often.

Sorry for double-posting. But you know what...I wish people would stop complaining about SP2 being cracked. Just because you have bought a legit. copy of XP yourself doesn't mean people aren't going to crack the software. That is the nature of software, it can be manipulated!! So, if you have a legit. copy of XP then you will get the benefits of SP2, along with the people who crack it and the those who they distribute the crack to. There are kids out there just as smart as MS writers.

* WARNING! DON'T INSTALL this stuff unless you're absolutely sure what you're doing. We've already heard from one reader who had to do an XP system restore.

http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/winup.gif

@ iNQ

what excactly is that?

because i already installed it :shifty:

on my desktop i got xp pro with it on it from the shop and in my laptop i had to go out and buy a copy but i think that the price is far too much, if they did not charge so much for a piece of software that costs what about ?0.20 to put on a cd and then charge ?200 for a copy no one would pirate or crack it. well you can see that pirates are right to do what they do. ( in my opinion anyway)

Moribundi wise up and go to packetnews.com and search for the crack. It IS on mIRC.

Okay, first of all, way to go and repeat your ignorance twice in a row. Like originally stated, mIRC is simply a program to connect to an IRC server. There are other IRC programs that connect the same way....Bersirc, Klient, XChat, etc....

Secondly, links like packetnews are not tolerated on here. You might want to go edit your posts while you still can, being that you just lined yourself up for a ban.

Erm isn't this old news? And the inquirer say we can't write for toffee? We reported this months ago and then decided to pull the story. However Eweek still ran a story on it and you can read that here:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1563941,00.asp

So if you paid for a car, you wouldn't buy gas? :blink:

i think the better analogy would be if he bought gas he would expect a car/scooter/motorcycle for free. seeing as buying a game is cheaper than buying the o/s or comptuer that comes with it i would think he would take the cheaper route here as well.

Still some funny stuff out here :) Why not move this to Funny Stuff section. I really enjoyed reading these posts. Most funny one was people being worried about a free windows version kill linux. Isn't everyone saying Linux is far better than windows? Why worry then...

And a five page thread about software being cracked. Now that's hilarious. Really, A Rating!

i was just saying that if a company can't even secure it's own software, how are they going to secure your computer it was a somewhat broad statement

There is no company that can create an uncrackable piece of software unless the software is not distributed to end users; stuff like web services and web applications, considering, of course, that the server hosting the web services is not compromised.

Why, you ask?

Software is open by nature. Anyone can go in and take a peek at the assembly code of any program no matter how much you try to obfuscate or protect it; the end-user's machine has to get access to the code somehow doesn't it? People who understand assembly code can find a way to work around it, and this is how Microsoft's software is being cracked; it has nothing to do with security.

bwx

There is no company that can create an uncrackable piece of software unless the software is not distributed to end users; stuff like web services and web applications, considering, of course, that the server hosting the web services is not compromised.

Why, you ask?

Software is open by nature. Anyone can go in and take a peek at the assembly code of any program no matter how much you try to obfuscate or protect it; the end-user's machine has to get access to the code somehow doesn't it? People who understand assembly code can find a way to work around it, and this is how Microsoft's software is being cracked; it has nothing to do with security.

bwx

obfuscate? :blink: way too big of a word for this discussion!! j/k

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