As most of you know, windows xp SP1 has just came out from the good old Microsoft.
However, due to that fact that Bill GATE$ still want$ more dollar$, its company have introduced additional technological measures aimed at ensuring licensed customers receive full benefits and to make it more difficult for those who pirate software to steal these same benefits. Upon installation the SP1 patch will check for your product id key, as far as I know, the majority of the pirated version contains the same 2 product id numbers, and if you are using one of the 2 id keys (wared versions), setup will halt upon installation. The romer that the patch will destory the system containing a pirated version of WinXP is fortunately unture.
microsoft's new Services pack aimes fixing lots of sercurity issues found in XP, it contains all the fixes up untill Aug 2002.
From Microsoft
This release also Ensures licensed customers receive full benefits Eligibility for Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows Update Licensed customers will continue to enjoy product updates and access to Windows Update. Service pack 1 will fail to install on Windows XP installations using either of two well-known pirated product keys. Additionally, Windows Update will verify the product key used to install Windows XP against a list of valid product keys to ensure installations made with cracked or pirated product keys will not receive access. Additional grace periods for hardware out-of-tolerance situations Users will have up to 3 days to re-activate Windows XP after making a hardware change that triggers the need to re-activate. Previously, users were required to re-activate immediately upon the next boot after the hardware changes were made. Volume license key (VLK) encryption An encryption feature will be added to unattended setups of Windows XP with Service Pack 1. Customers who place their VLK in an unattended setup file (unattend.txt) will be able to encrypt the VLK such that it will be time limited and hidden from plain text. Raising the bar on pirates Product key inclusion in Installation ID for activation In order to protect customers and Microsoft against product key attacks, the product key used to install Windows will be included in the Installation ID for all activations completed after SP1 has been installed. Internet activations will send the entire product key while telephone activations will send a hash value of the product key in order to limit the increase in size of the telephone Installation ID.. Repair of activation circumventions Service Pack 1 for Windows XP will contain fixes to cracks used by software pirates to circumvent activation. Installations of Windows XP patched by a crack will require activation after SP1 has been installed.
However I am confident that some one will come up with a crack for this service pack within a few weeks.
more information can be found at
http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/basics/activation/windowsxpsp1.asp
please share your comments.
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However, due to that fact that Bill GATE$ still want$ more dollar$, its company have introduced additional technological measures aimed at ensuring licensed customers receive full benefits and to make it more difficult for those who pirate software to steal these same benefits. Upon installation the SP1 patch will check for your product id key, as far as I know, the majority of the pirated version contains the same 2 product id numbers, and if you are using one of the 2 id keys (wared versions), setup will halt upon installation. The romer that the patch will destory the system containing a pirated version of WinXP is fortunately unture.
microsoft's new Services pack aimes fixing lots of sercurity issues found in XP, it contains all the fixes up untill Aug 2002.
From Microsoft
This release also Ensures licensed customers receive full benefits Eligibility for Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows Update Licensed customers will continue to enjoy product updates and access to Windows Update. Service pack 1 will fail to install on Windows XP installations using either of two well-known pirated product keys. Additionally, Windows Update will verify the product key used to install Windows XP against a list of valid product keys to ensure installations made with cracked or pirated product keys will not receive access. Additional grace periods for hardware out-of-tolerance situations Users will have up to 3 days to re-activate Windows XP after making a hardware change that triggers the need to re-activate. Previously, users were required to re-activate immediately upon the next boot after the hardware changes were made. Volume license key (VLK) encryption An encryption feature will be added to unattended setups of Windows XP with Service Pack 1. Customers who place their VLK in an unattended setup file (unattend.txt) will be able to encrypt the VLK such that it will be time limited and hidden from plain text. Raising the bar on pirates Product key inclusion in Installation ID for activation In order to protect customers and Microsoft against product key attacks, the product key used to install Windows will be included in the Installation ID for all activations completed after SP1 has been installed. Internet activations will send the entire product key while telephone activations will send a hash value of the product key in order to limit the increase in size of the telephone Installation ID.. Repair of activation circumventions Service Pack 1 for Windows XP will contain fixes to cracks used by software pirates to circumvent activation. Installations of Windows XP patched by a crack will require activation after SP1 has been installed.
However I am confident that some one will come up with a crack for this service pack within a few weeks.
more information can be found at
http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/basics/activation/windowsxpsp1.asp
please share your comments.
:linux:
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