Porkyxi Posted February 15, 2010 Member ID: 99 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 107 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 6 Achievement Points: 1111 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 30, 2023 Birthday: 09/14/1960 Device: Windows Share Posted February 15, 2010 dont know if this affect anyone here (cough cough), but an article some might want to read http://www.pcworld.com/article/189282/microsoft_targets_windows_7_activation_hackers.html?tk=nl_wvx_h_crawl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChknFngr Posted February 15, 2010 Member ID: 922 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 72 Topic Count: 149 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3472 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 1286 Achievement Points: 23224 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/23/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 16, 2021 Birthday: 10/01/1975 Share Posted February 15, 2010 lol yep, i just desactivated the windows update in case, i cant afford to buy it brand new, and even if i have 3 XP licenses, must say i cracked those because windows is really too boring with activation and all. when u install a new HD or anything, u have to call microsoft to reactivate your windows, honestly, way too much hassle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
widowmaker Posted February 15, 2010 Member ID: 632 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 47 Topic Count: 197 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1762 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 1440 Achievement Points: 18213 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 12, 2020 Birthday: 07/30/1977 Share Posted February 15, 2010 no prob here mine is legal, it came on my new pc i got 2 weaks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
loaderXI Posted February 15, 2010 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 392 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6418 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 6495 Achievement Points: 54347 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 30 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Tuesday at 03:12 PM Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted February 15, 2010 Sure am glad i never upgraded from windows 98se Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
GorillaXI Posted February 16, 2010 Member ID: 62 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 73 Topic Count: 480 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 4124 Content Per Day: 0.77 Reputation: 1413 Achievement Points: 27905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/16/1972 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Dang Loader...I thought you were still running 3.1. Welcome to the old millenium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollardogg Posted February 16, 2010 Member ID: 189 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 45 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1388 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 7432 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 10 Birthday: 02/01/1978 Device: Windows Share Posted February 16, 2010 everything can be cracked they cant stop it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiZiD Posted February 22, 2010 Member ID: 804 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 7, 2020 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Heck I still have the original DOS 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, and Win95 on (Twenty Nine) 3 1/2" floppies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Genesis Posted February 22, 2010 Member ID: 393 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 64 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 400 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 03/23/1991 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Think Microsoft is trying too hard, and should give up already. They can't control something that has no control. Unless they completely get rid of the internet, or computers for that matter, it will continously happen. And I'm sure microsoft will get some answers back from a few hackers if something does go wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryWeezer Posted February 22, 2010 Member ID: 20166 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 7653 Content Per Day: 1.97 Reputation: 7228 Achievement Points: 53668 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 02:23 PM Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Share Posted February 22, 2010 A shame it's voluntary. Microsoft should force it, and the update should wipe the hard drive of an illegal installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
MrBubbles Posted February 22, 2010 Member ID: 349 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 30 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 821 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 541 Achievement Points: 5195 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/10/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 5, 2017 Birthday: 01/27/1971 Share Posted February 22, 2010 1998, I was attending the tradeshow, Comdex in Las Vegas. While approaching Microsoft's booth, I bumped head-on into Bill Gates knocking him to the ground. He immediately got up and began making sure that I was okay. He brushed off my clothes from my shoulders to my knees while applogizing the entire time. I think that he was rubbing the soot off his hands onto my clothes... Well played Bill Gates! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickTheGrip Posted February 25, 2010 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Share Posted February 25, 2010 By the way for you budding pirates (arrgh) the update is now it - it came out last night and it is voluntary, it is called Update for Windows 7 for x64-based systems (KB971033) You have to read the details to know its the activation exploit 'fix' Its only a matter of time now before MS makes it more than a voluntary update though, so if you are pirating and I am sure no one here is (more coughing) I would suggest updating to a legal version soon, but thats up to you Like people say, if it can be programmed, it can be hacked. and I am sure as soon as MS makes it a required update there will be a hack for the fix They say the first exploit came out 2 days after the first beta version of 7 was released!!!!!!! Wonder where that one came from (Redmond, Washington by any chance?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
guidebot101 Posted February 25, 2010 Member ID: 1135 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 30 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 160 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 07/02/1992 Share Posted February 25, 2010 I thought microsoft was more into prosecuting the people who made the exploits rather than the exploitees. Time to read that article now! Just read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey1799 Posted February 25, 2010 Member ID: 559 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 28 Topic Count: 20 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 627 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 47 Achievement Points: 3492 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16 Birthday: 10/09/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted February 25, 2010 LET THEM BRING IT ON ,EEE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NickTheGrip Posted February 25, 2010 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Share Posted February 25, 2010 Yeah, right now it will be more of a pain in the butt than anything else. Prior to owning 7, I had a totally legal copy of Vista home basic on my gaming computer, which sucked. I got my hands (cough, cough) on a copy of Vista Ultimate and when the 'patch' came out, once a week or so I would get an annoying message on my screen telling me the copy of Windows was not validated and probably counterfeit. Nothing else happened, so I simply left it like that and lived with the message. I agree that Microsoft deserves to be paid for developing software, but at the same time, I dont feel like paying 6 times over as, in my house, there are 6 viable computers, and with 7, each one has to have its own, clean copy. For 7 Ultimate, that would be over a thousand dollars and that is simply out of my price range. I also feel that you should get value for money, and while 7 is the best one they have ever produced, I lived the Vista and ME nightmares, so I feel a little vindicated not having clean copies on every machine in the house. They are aggresively pursuing the exploiters. They just busted a 2bn dollar operation in Southern China which made counterfeit Windows products. Makes you wonder just how many fake copies of MS stuff there is out there. Theres a little more detail here on exactly what it will do (for now) http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1759 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sun Tzu Posted February 28, 2010 Member ID: 542 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 5 Topic Count: 311 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 1628 Content Per Day: 0.30 Reputation: 29 Achievement Points: 11299 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/30/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 3, 2014 Birthday: 03/01/1975 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Update for Rights Management Services Client for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB979099)Download size: 2.0 MBYou may need to restart your computer for this update to take effect.Update type: RecommendedInstall this update to resolve issues caused by manifest expiration in AD RMS enabled applications. This update will fix any existing issues in addition to addressing any future application manifest expirations. After you install this item, you may have to restart any running AD RMS enabled applications.More information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979099'>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979099Help and Support: http://support.microsoft.com This is the one I saw I didnt see this one: Update for Windows 7 for x64-based systems (KB971033) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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