KezNews Vista Activation Hack Bogus

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Lisa Vaas
Lisa Vaas
Published: Mar 6, 2007
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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I had to laugh at this comment left on the Keznews.com post, which was about KezNews.com users’ claims to have hacked Vista product activation:

“After having bought and installed Vista Ultimate 64 bit, I doubt the sanity of anyone who makes the change. I wouldn’t do it again for free, especially illegally. —Gregory Steffey“

Well, Gregory, it’s looking like you were right to doubt sanity. I’m still waiting for Microsoft’s Alex Kochis, a senior product manager on the Genuine Windows team, to blog about this topic, which a Microsoft spokesperson said he’d do today, but it’s still a no show.

It’s moot, anyway. A new post on KezNews from the author of the alleged hack calls the brute-force key generator “a joke” that he/she never intended to work.

“I have never gotten it to work, everyone should stop using it! everyone who said they got a key are probably lying or mistaken! i suggest everyone uses the 120 day 3x rearm method.“

Now the KezNews keystone kops are arguing over whether the hack actually works, including a posted video clip that supposedly shows it working.

Not…. touching… with … 10-foot … pole….

Lisa Vaas

Lisa Vaas

Content Writer

Lisa Vaas is News Editor/Operations for eWEEK.com and also serves as editor of the Database topic center. She has focused on customer relationship management technology, IT salaries and careers, effects of the H1-B visa on the technology workforce, wireless technology, security, and, most recently, databases and the technologies that touch upon them. Her articles have appeared in eWEEK's print edition, on eWEEK.com, and in the startup IT magazine PC Connection.

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