Windows 7 activation faces flaks from pirates again

Monday, November 23, 2009 ·

Pirates have gathered tools to remove and disable Windows Activation Technologies (WAT) in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 taking care of all the side effects A new activation crack method has been discovered and put to work to bypass Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 activation: remove and disable Windows Activation Technologies. The hack that we are talking about works by bypassing activation altogether, and thus does not need a product key. By deploying various means like blocking, preventing, removing, and disabling access to and loading of all activation and licensing related Windows system files, slui.exe (the exe needed to activate Windows 7) will not start, resulting in the permanent circumvention of Windows activation.
And the buck does not stop here, disabling WAT isn't the end of the story: after the 30-day evaluation period is culminates, Windows 7 will still start annoying the user to activate the operating system, the wallpaper will be set to black, and a watermark which reveals that the copy of 'Windows is not genuine' will be located in the bottom right-hand corner. One can continue to use the operating system for a long time, but the side-effects can be disturbing, so pirates have enabled tools to clean these up.
A lot of the tools support all editions of Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) and Windows Server 2008 R2. With the added bonus of removing and disabling WAT from the Windows system, the tools clean up the side-effects by preventing relevant services and patching certain DLL files.
During the time when Windows Vista was launched , pirates also made an attempt to permanently bypass Windows Vista activation by halting the activation grace period countdown timer. These attempts were brought to a halt by Microsoft with updates to the operating system. The same can be expected to occur this time around since this method involves patching a lot of system files, especially with the next WAT update or with Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
The most dependable method to bypass Windows product activation is still the employment of BIOS emulation tools to fool the operating system into making a judgement that it has been preloaded onto an OEM system. This can be undertaken either via software tools or through direct modification of a motherboard's BIOS. Pirates have long been utilizing BIOS loaders and OEM BIOS mods for Windows 7 for months and it went even longer for Vista. In fact, in April 2007, Microsoft publicly announced that it was analyzing BIOS hacks that were being used to bypass Windows Vista product activation but even till now many of the BIOS methods still work.

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