There is a post on BoingBoing about the Microsoft “Genuine Advantage” being cracked in 24 hours. I’m going to post a copy of the crack here, in case the BoingBoing one gets taken away.
AV sez, “This week, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called ‘Genuine Advantage.’ It was cracked within 24 hours.”
Before pressing ‘Custom’ or ‘Express’ buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter:
javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’)
It turns off the trigger for the key check.
There is also an Ed Foster column about this new MS “feature”.
