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Monday, March 19, 2007 5:54 PM

Another reported workaround ineffective...

Late last week, while I was out of the office sick and with my boss covering for me, our team learned of reports of a purported workaround to activation on Windows Vista. I also just noticed a question in the form of a comment posted by a regular reader
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 1:52 PM

WGA Notifications and download and install telemetry

We’ve gotten a few questions recently about the fact that our latest WGA Notifications package sends install telemetry when installed or canceled. Given past concerns about data WGA sends out I wanted to take a moment to explain what is happening with
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Monday, March 05, 2007 7:06 PM

'Brute' Force Attack on Windows Vista now 'Moot' Force Attack

Over the weekend we learned that the widely covered 'Vista Brute Force Keygen' turned out to be a hoax. It's nice that the originator has come forward and is encouraging everyone to buy and use genuine copies of Windows Vista. As you can imagine we receive
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Friday, March 02, 2007 11:16 AM

Brute force attack on Windows Vista product keys?

This morning as I was checking my feeds while standing in line waiting for coffee I saw a few headlines about a reported brute force attack on product keys for Windows Vista. The attack randomly searches for legit keys. This is called a brute force attack
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:47 AM

Windows Vista Tamper Detection and misbehaving apps

We've seen reports indicating that customers are being prompted to activate Windows Vista on computers on which activation had not been previously required. This problem can occur because a specific system setting is deleted when a program runs with administrative
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