Microsoft Confirms Vista Activation Breach

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2 January 2007 By: Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor
Microsoft Confirms Vista Activation Breach
On one website, the crack has been downloaded 9,819 times
The Timer Stopper Crack is one of the Windows Vista activation workarounds that has been
made available in the wild. It involves setting the BIOS clock to the year 2099 and using a
patch to crack Vista’s activation mechanism. The Timer Stopper workaround is designed to
crack the activation process on a fresh install of Vista and on an operating system that has
already been installed.
“Recently it has been reported that activation of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating
system has been compromised,” a Microsoft representative revealed to Microsoft Watch.
“Microsoft is investigating this reported activation breach; however, there is no concrete
evidence that this breach has been automated to the point that it is widely deployable.”
The hack is not without limitations. According to the reports, although the Timer Stopper
workaround works on 32-bit editions of Vista, it fails to be a valid workaround for 64-bit
versions. But I must dispute Microsoft’s position that this breach is not widely deployed. In
fact, I have come across five websites that permitted the download…