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Microsoft Posts Steps to Change XP Keys | |
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| Time: 15:23 EST/20:23 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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An interesting turnabout took place over last weekend when Microsoft Corp. posted on its Product Support Services Web site a detailed knowledge base article that provides step-by-step instructions on how to change volume-licensed product keys for Windows XP. But the move, which started as a customer service to help users legitimately change keys, could actually serve as a blueprint of sorts for hackers to access XP keys, some said. Unlike consumer customers, Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., provides XP to volume-licensed customers with keys that unlock re-quested applications and validate their installations. But shortly after XP's release last fall, hackers seized on a method of accessing such keys to open their pirated versions of the operating system. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (156.80.64.132) at 9/25/2002 4:18:40 PM |
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Didn't we do this already ?
-TL |
| #2 By 7746 (213.93.165.242) at 9/25/2002 4:35:13 PM |
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All hackers already know how to change that key. They are not interested in this information from microsoft, certainly not if they can find it on every hackers site out there.
The best thing Microsoft can hope is that people who had a illegal corporate version and found out that they could not install SP1 due to the usage of an illegal key, buy a legitimate key by their reseller. This procedure tells them how to change the illegal key to a legal key. Keygens might work in generating keys that work, but thos keys are not in Microsoft's database. Everyone who succesfully upgraded to SP1, but with a generated key, will in the future be denied to the Microsoft Update website. If this is not already the case. |
| #3 By 2960 (156.80.64.132) at 9/26/2002 8:50:11 AM |
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"Freedom. Kinda nice, isn't it? "
Until Palladium comes along... TL |
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