Indian cracks Microsoft's anti-piracy program Alok Sharma| June 21, 2005 14:53 IST An Indian researcher has breached the much-touted 'impenetrable' Windows Genuine Advantage of Microsoft. Bangalore-based Debasis Mohanty has cracked WGA through an 'easy-to-exploit' weakness in the software for generating illegal copies of the Windows XP programme. Microsoft confirmed the claims of Mohanty, but sought to downplay it saying, 'It represents very little threat.' A company spokesperson said they did expect counterfeiters to try a number of different methods to circumvent safeguards provided by WGA. WGA is an anti-piracy programme that keeps a tab on consumers whether they are running legitimately licensed copies of Windows XP. #Title:Genuine Advantage Validation (WGA 1.9.42.0 & OGA 2.0.48) crack #Tags:genuine,advantage,validation Genuine Advantage Validation (WGA 1.9.42.0 & OGA 2.0.48) crack Rating Related Downloads Downloads Microsoft Genuine Advantage Validation v3 By ChattChitto patch 11390 Microsoft Genuine Advantage Validation v4 By ChattChitto crack 11634 Microsoft Genuine Advantage Validation v5 [ChattChitto. Crack means the action of removing the copy protection from commercial software. A crack is a program, set of instructions or patch used to remove copy protection from a piece of software or to unlock features from a demo or time-limited trial. Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is an anti-infringement system created by Microsoft that enforces online validation of the licensing of several Microsoft Windows operating systems when accessing several services, such as Windows Update, and downloading Windows components from the Microsoft Download Center. Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Validation Tools and Notifications have been upgraded to version 1.9.9.1 (1.9.0009.1) which is used to validate genuineness of Windows OS when accessing Windows Update, Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update on February 6th, 2009, superseding WGA 1.9.9.0 that was released just a month ago. ![]() Mohanty has posted a detailed proof-of-concept programme on the high-profile security mailing list of the software giant, showing how the WGA validation check can be tricked to generate key codes for use on illegal copies of the software. Using a secondary Microsoft validation tool called 'genuinecheck.Exe', Mohanty claims to have made it possible for people to trick the safeguard mechanism and download and run the supposedly restricted software from Microsoft's download centre, he said. ![]() Did he stick tape over the Windows key during installation? Or did he perhaps hold down the shift key. I share your amusement. Though I am by no means capable enough to perform such a task myself (those shift keys are tricky) it seems that a Microsoft program being cracked or broken or worked-around or otherwise finagled is not necessarily a breakthrough. I suppose the most news-worthy aspect of this particular crack was in response of someone sinking what Microsoft was apparently toting around as the Titanic. Interesting, yes. Maybe not other to rub it in Microsoft's face. This isn't the Special Olympics people. Not everyone gets a medal and a hug.:). We don't know but one thing is certain: Microsoft still employs weaker key lengths than 10 fingers. No wonder it's broken so easily except for the most severely handicapped crackers. Windows Genuine Advantage ToolThe day when eleven simultaneous keypresses are required, also known as 'next order fingerography', will mark the line between ordinary hackers and the wittiest ubercrackers. It has been rumoured that some are already preparing for those times with prototypes of a so-called 'Eine Fingermaschine'. Also, the piracy rings of the. From the doc linked to: >6. After downloading 'GenuineCheck.exe', run it on the machine running a genuine copy of Windows XP. > It will generate a code which is used for WGA validation. Copy the code and use the same code to >validate a pirated copy of Windows XP and bypass the WGA. But that's bogus, you still need 'access' to a authentic copy to perform this hack. It's not really a hack at all. But sadly this will only make it easier for people unwilling to pay for windows to continue to use it. It would be better if they had to find a cheeper (legal) solution. But that's bogus, you still need 'access' to a authentic copy to perform this hack. It's not really a hack at all. Microsoft could either restrict WGA downloads to only those using IE with ActiveX, or provide an alternative way for browsers to get past WGA. They did, and the simple/most user-friendly way is to get the user to download a program which will generate a key. There's no way that Microsoft could know that you were running the program on a different machine. ![]() It's an inherent weakness of the system, but one Microsoft needed to make to allow non-IE/ActiveX browsers to work with WGA. I downloaded this out of curiosity, the only thing it contains is a DOC file with instructions. Anyway, what's the point of doing this? You can still download things from Microsoft's site if you don't validate. You just have to pick the 'Don't validate' option. Oooh, great, some guy made it so you don't have to click the annoying 'No, thanks' button every time you want to download Microsoft Anti-Spyware! The *real* challenge is to crack the activation algorithm. (which I belive that has some form of the RSA algorithm in it). People, WGA!= activation. Windows Genuine Update NumberActivation is the one that's a bitch. If you happen to mess with your hardware in your Windows box a lot, you'll know what I mean. And since I can never use the Internet activation because I 'Already used that code too many times' (Swapping IDE hard drives once in a while for backups with Windows is out of the question now?), I end up having to call Miss Microsoft Robot all the time, who always tells me it's very important to use Windows Update to protect my computer from viruses before she gives me my activation code. Activation is the one that's a bitch. If you happen to mess with your hardware in your Windows box a lot, you'll know what I mean. And since I can never use the Internet activation because I 'Already used that code too many times' Yeah, that's why it is a good idea to have a copy of the corporate install laying around. Even if you're legally licensed to use XP, that activation scheme is problematic. Install from corp edition CD that doesn't require activation. Probably a technical violatio. I had to activate windows over the phone the other day, because installing SP2 on it broke everything (well, it just didn't like the SIGNED graphics card driver). It kept hanging while it was starting up so I took all the expansion cards out, including the graphics card and used the onboard. Worked fine, apart from popping up a message saying the hardware had changed dramatically and windows needed to be reactivated. Didn't have time to play with it so I left it a few days. Next time I turned it on I couldn't do anything unleses I activated windows. Ok, I will just activate it over the internet - or I would if it was configured for the network it was connected to. Cancel activation so I can set up the network, nope, can't change network settings unleses I activate windows (even in safe mode). So, do I configure a DHCP server on another machine, or use the activate by phone option? It was a free call, but if I knew how long it was going to take for the auto responder to read out really really long numbers for me to type then I would have just set up a DHCP server. The worst has to be for setting up Microsoft Learning classes that use Virtual PC. You recieve about 2-10 virtual machine images that you have to activate by phone for every class(internet activation doesn't work). Now imagine the fun that comes Friday after class to try to activate 3 classes worth of these by Monday morning when microsofts activation line is down half the weekend. *joy* Don't you love Regina? That's what we call the Microsoft activation recording, she's screams numbers out like it's a punishment she's giving you. *pleasant voice* would you like me to repeat that.'
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