It will be detected by Windows Activation Technologies sooner or later. Your screen will turn black and you will get not genuine notices. Usually it will require purchasing and installing genuine windows and all that it entails. Unfortunately thieves sell these hacked versions to unsuspecting buyers cheating them out of their money.
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If Windows came preinstalled on your PC, the product key should appear on a sticker on your device. This year period has now ended, and Microsoft has discontinued Windows 7 support so that we can focus our investment on supporting newer technologies and great new experiences. The specific end of support day for Windows 7 was January 14, Gaming on Windows 7 will still be good for years and the obvious choice of old enough games. While you can continue to use Windows 7 after the end of support, the safest option is to upgrade to Windows If you are unable or not willing to do so, there are ways to continue using Windows 7 safely with no more updates.
Windows 8 has reach end of support, which means Windows 8 devices no longer receive important security updates. We recommend making the free upgrade to Windows 8. The two exploits I describe in this post are certainly not the only ones out there. Indeed, Windows pirates have been playing a cat-and-mouse game with Microsoft for years.
In the Windows XP era, pirates focused most often on stealing legitimate product keys, especially Volume License keys. Beginning with Windows Vista, Microsoft has begun building anti-piracy components directly into the operating system, and pirates have aimed their hacking skills at those components with increasing sophistication.
In its default configuration, it performs an initial validation check and then repeats the process every 90 days, downloading new signatures to detect exploits that flew under the radar in the previous scan. When I initially wrote about this subject last month, the question I heard most often was, "Why does it need to keep checking?
If I get validated, shouldn't that be good enough? Unfortunately, the experiences I've written about here prove why that strategy doesn't work. However, as the anguished cries of forum participants proved, the KB update in February exposed all of those hacks, restoring the correct license files and causing the systems to correctly fail validation.
As a result, the RemoveWAT developer modified his code and released a version last week that trumped the new update and once again allowed hacked machines to pass the activation test. In the past, that would have been counted as a win for the pirates. But with its new signature-based system, Microsoft can improve its exploit-detection code and, at least in theory, identify the updated hacks in 90 days or, in the worst case, 90 days after that.
The point is that pirates can't count on getting a permanent free pass on activation. If you're a hobbyist obsessed with pirating Windows, you have to put up with the nuisance of updating your hacking tools every few months. But if you're selling pirated software in a box or preloaded on a system , you risk getting put out of business and maybe sent to jail when the systems you sold in March are detected as pirated in June or July.
The other question I hear on the subject is, "Why pick on legitimate customers? Why not go after the real pirates? There's a common misconception that only diehard hackers mess around with pirated software. The reality is that anyone can be a victim, especially if they ever need help reinstalling Windows or repairing some sort of hardware problem.
I have lost count of the number of times I have seen a PC that contains a pirated copy of Windows installed by a nephew or a neighbor or even a local computer tech who was trying to share the cool thing he found on the Internet.
Back in , I wrote about a firsthand experience with a PC repair tech for a major national chain who used a pirated copy of Windows to "repair" my friend's PC. In that case, I was able to spot the unauthorized copy quickly and help my friend undo the damage and get his money back from the crooked tech. If that were to happen today, the tech might be lucky enough to get away with the deception for a few months, but he would eventually be caught out.
One thing I learned while researching this piece is the phenomenal determination of pirates. They've become increasingly sophisticated and are able to react extremely fast to changes from Microsoft. For Microsoft, responding to those fast-moving targets without inadvertently inflicting collateral damage on its customers is a tremendous challenge. Last weekend, I used some sophisticated forensic tools to take an equally close and completely unauthorized look at what Microsoft is doing with its most recent anti-piracy update.
Tomorrow, I'll publish the surprising results of that analysis. Exchange Server bug: Patch now, but multi-factor authentication might not stop these attacks, warns Microsoft. Facebook's pivot: motivation, momentum, and the metaverse. Microsoft November Patch Tuesday: 55 bugs squashed, two under active exploit. Windows 7 users: No more desktop OneDrive sync from March Microsoft makes Visual Studio and. NET 6 generally available.
Microsoft will now snitch on you at work like never before.
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