Thats interesting....Slartibartfast wrote:I was talking about the keygenerator program, that uses their own server to figure out valid codes.Vertigo1 wrote:Good thing anyone that cares about that blocks that server via their hosts file.Slartibartfast wrote:Not to mention a program that connects to Microsoft to "verify" if any of the 100s of codes per minute it generates are valid.
They already had done the same thing with SP1
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Needless to say, those illiterates are those who most need SP2.Sharp-kun wrote:Depends how many of those using pirate copies are computer illiterate, and so won't know how to change the key. Saying that, they probably wouldn't update even if they knew how.Sokartawi wrote: Anyway, there are keygenerators for XP, and also programs that lets you change your key after installation, so blocking some well-known serials isn't going to help much.
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While it does do a semi-brute force search, finding a valid key wouldnt take any longer than it would to download a Windows CD iso from a random p2p network.phongn wrote:IIRC, no, it doesn't. It brute-forces a search on your computer (taking quite awhile), but someone can always check to see if the keygen is transmitting traffic.
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Ah, that's right -- it uses an imperfect algorithm to find a possible key, then it uses another algorithm to determine if the key is good.ggs wrote:While it does do a semi-brute force search, finding a valid key wouldnt take any longer than it would to download a Windows CD iso from a random p2p network.