Microsoft ‘Genuine Advantage’ – Kill Your PC ?

Boy am I glad I don’t use Windows! I don’t have to worry about another company deciding that I don’t have the right to use my computer..

There is a ZDNet blog article relating a conversation someone had with a Microsoft support person which was posted to the interesting people list in which the MS support person said:

“in the fall, having the latest WGA will become mandatory and if its not installed, Windows will give a 30 day warning and when the 30 days is up and WGA isn’t installed, Windows will stop working, so you might as well install WGA now.”

I don’t think this is actually likely to be true as the only way they could be sure to disable Windows it if WGA wasn’t installed is to have planned this from the first release of Windows XP, otherwise they’d have no guarantee that the code they need to do this would be installed.

However, the ZDNet person questioned Microsoft and only got this in response:

As we have mentioned previously, as the WGA Notifications program expands in the future, customers may be required to participate. Microsoft is gathering feedback in select markets to learn how it can best meet its customers’ needs and will keep customers informed of any changes to the program.

Now given that MSFT is already being sued over WGA for violating the Washington Consumer Protection Act, Washington Anti-Spyware Laws, California Consumer Legal Remedies Act, California Anti-Spyware Laws, California Business and Professions Code and California’s Unfair Competition Law you would think that they would take this opportunity for a good PR exercise about it..

12 thoughts on “Microsoft ‘Genuine Advantage’ – Kill Your PC ?

  1. HOW TO MAKE XP PRO CORPORATE “VOLUME LICENSE” “ILLEGAL” TO APPEAR AS AN OEM OR RETAIL VERSION” LEGAL VERSION

    YOU MUST HAVE ACCESS TO A COMPUTER SCHOOL,LIBRARY,WHATEVER ( I DON’T RECOMMEND COPYING YOUR EMPLOYER’S OR YOUR MOM’S)

    VALID OEM OR RETAIL KEY.

    MUST HAVE

    1. ACCESS TO THE ABOVE MENTIONED COMPUTERS

    2. ACCESS TO THE REGISTRY(REGEDIT.EXE) ON SAID COMPUTER

    3. USB THUMB DRIVE

    4. DOWNLOAD SLEEP.EXE (TAKES LESS THAN 5 MINUTES TO FIND WITH GOOGLE)

    HERE WE GO

    NOTE ALL THE FILES YOUR CREATING WILL BE IN BETWEEN START OF AND END OF
    THE “START OF” AND “END OF” SHOULD NOT BE IN YOUR FINISHED FILE!

    1ST THING WERE GOING TO DO IS CREATE A BATCH FILE TO GET THE KEYS

    start of GetRegKeys.bat

    @echo off

    echo.

    echo “getting the three registry keys needed”

    echo.

    echo.

    echo “getting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Registration”

    regedit /E iexplore.reg “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Registration”

    echo.

    echo “saved to desktop\key\ as iexplore.reg”

    echo.

    echo “getting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion”

    regedit /E windcurrver.reg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

    echo.

    echo “saved to desktop\key\ as windcurrver.reg”

    echo.

    echo “getting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion”

    regedit /E oem.reg “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion”

    echo.

    echo “saved to desktop\key\ as oem.reg”

    echo.

    echo.

    echo “look in desktop\key\ the files should be there”

    echo.

    pause

    end of GetRegKeys.bat

    OK OPEN THE NOTEPAD APPLICATION HIGHLIGHT THE ABOVE TEXT

    EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN start of GetRegKeys.bat AND end of GetRegKeys.bat

    RIGHT CLICK COPY AND PASTE IN THE NOTEPAD NOW CLICK FILE SAVE AS GetRegKeys.bat

    NOTE THAT BATCHFILE CAN BE RAN FROM ANY LOCATION ON THE THE COMPUTER YOU WILL END UP WITH A FILE IN THE DIRECTORY
    YOU RUN THE GETREGKEYS.BAT FILE FROM.(IT CAN BE RAN DIRECTLY FROM A USB THUMBDRIVE)

    YOU SHOULD HAVE THREE REGISTRY FILES
    iexplore.reg

    windcurrver.reg this file needs to be edited READ BELOW

    oem.reg this file needs to be edited READ BELOW

    OK ASSUMING YOUR HOME NOW LETS CONTINUE!

    NEXT EDIT WINDCURRVER.REG

    (windcurrver.reg)this file needs editing right click the windcurrver.reg file on the desktop click edit

    it should look like this when your done

    start of wincurrver.reg

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion]

    “ProductId”=”xxxxx-XXX-xxxxxxx-xxxxx”

    end of wincurrver.reg

    NEXT EDIT OEM.REG

    (oem.reg)this file needs editing right click the oem.reg file on the desktop click edit

    it should look like this when your done

    start of oem.reg

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

    “SubVersionNumber”=””

    “CurrentBuild”=”1.511.1 () (Obsolete data – do not use)”

    “InstallDate”=dword:4496c793

    “ProductName”=”Microsoft Windows XP”

    “RegDone”=””

    “SoftwareType”=”SYSTEM”

    “CurrentVersion”=”5.1”

    “CurrentBuildNumber”=”2600”

    “BuildLab”=”2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158”

    “CurrentType”=”Uniprocessor Free”

    “CSDVersion”=”Service Pack 2”

    “SystemRoot”=”C:\\WINDOWS”

    “SourcePath”=”D:\\I386”

    “PathName”=”C:\\WINDOWS”

    “ProductId”=”XXXXX-XXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXX”

    “DigitalProductId”=hex: BIG STRING OF NUMBERS

    “LicenseInfo”=hex: BIG STRING OF NUMBERS

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents]

    “OOBETimer”=hex:ff,d5,71,d6,8b,6a,8d,6f,d5,33,93,fd

    “LastWPAEventLogged”=hex:d6,07,06,00,01,00,13,00,0f,00,33,00,27,00,a5,01

    end of oem.reg

    WHERE IT SAYS BIG STRING OF NUMBERS (I REMOVED THEM FOR OBVIOUS REASONS) IT WILL BE JUST WHAT IT SAYS A BIG STRING OF NUMBERS.

    (THIS KEY IS WHAT MICROSCUM SCANS FOR ON WGA – WINDOWS UPDATE – WINDOWS DOWNLOAD – BETA-INSTALL – EXTRAS INSTALL)

    NEXT CREATE A REGISTRY FILE TO START THE WORKAROUND WITH YOUR COMPUTER

    start of start.reg

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

    “start”=”C:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe /k cd C:\\ &start /min tweak.cmd &exit”

    end of start.reg

    OK OPEN THE NOTEPAD APPLICATION HIGHLIGHT THE ABOVE TEXT

    EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN start of start.reg AND end of start.reg

    RIGHT CLICK COPY AND PASTE IN THE NOTEPAD NOW CLICK FILE SAVE AS start.reg

    start tweak.cmd

    @echo off

    echo “YOU HAVE TO BE ADMIN FOR THIS TO WORK”

    echo “WAITING FOR THE XP TO SETTLE BEFORE EXECUTING”

    sleep 35 &

    REGEDIT /s oem.reg

    EXIT

    end tweak.cmd

    OK OPEN THE NOTEPAD APPLICATION HIGHLIGHT THE ABOVE TEXT

    EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN start tweak.cmd AND end tweak.cmd

    RIGHT CLICK COPY AND PASTE IN THE NOTEPAD NOW CLICK FILE SAVE AS tweak.cmd

    start of install.bat

    @echo off

    echo.

    echo “SHOWING WHAT’S BEING DONE”

    echo.

    echo “copying sleep.exe to C:\windows\system32”

    @copy sleep.exe C:\windows\system32

    echo “copying tweak.cmd to C:\

    @copy tweak.cmd C:\

    echo “copying oem.reg to C:\”

    @copy oem.reg C:\

    echo.

    echo “making oem.reg,tweak.cmd hidden files”

    attrib h C:\oem.reg

    attrib h C:\tweak.cmd

    echo.

    echo “registering the following keys”

    echo “iexplorekey.reg”

    echo “windcurrver.reg”

    echo “start.reg”

    REGEDIT /S iexplorekey.reg

    REGEDIT /S windcurrver.reg

    REGEDIT /S start.reg

    @pause

    end of install.bat

    OK OPEN THE NOTEPAD APPLICATION HIGHLIGHT THE ABOVE TEXT

    EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN start of install.bat AND end of install.bat

    RIGHT CLICK COPY AND PASTE IN THE NOTEPAD NOW CLICK FILE SAVE AS install.bat

    start of uninstall.bat

    @ echo off

    echo.

    echo “removing sleep.exe from C:\windows\system32”

    del C:\windows\system32\sleep.exe

    echo.

    echo “unhiding C:\oem.reg,C:\tweak.cmd before deleting”

    attrib -h C:\oem.reg

    attrib -h C:\tweak.cmd

    echo.

    echo “removing C:\oem.reg,C:\tweak.cmd”

    cd C:\ &del tweak.cmd &del oem.reg

    echo.

    echo “registering your backup keys iexplore.reg,windcurrver.reg,oem.reg”

    regedit /s oem.reg

    regedit /s iexplore.reg

    regedit /s windcurrver.reg

    echo.

    echo.

    echo “deleting the regkey that started the workaround”

    echo.

    echo.

    reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v start /f

    echo.

    echo.

    echo.

    pause

    end of uninstall.bat

    OK OPEN THE NOTEPAD APPLICATION HIGHLIGHT THE ABOVE TEXT

    EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN start uninstall.bat AND end uninstall.bat

    RIGHT CLICK COPY AND PASTE IN THE NOTEPAD NOW CLICK FILE SAVE AS uninstall.bat

    OK YOU HAVE ALL THE FILES MADE GO ON GOOGLE AND DOWNLOAD SLEEP.EXE
    AFTER YOU DOWNLOAD THAT PUT ALL OF THESE FILES IN A FOLDER NAMED KEY PUT UNINSTALL.BAT IN A FOLDER NAMED
    UNINSTALL INSIDE THE KEY FOLDER.

    (RECOMMENDED) ON YOUR COMPUTER (BEFORE INSTALLING) RUN THE GetRegKeys.bat TO BACKUP YOUR ORIGINALL KEYS BEFORE
    INSTALLING PUT THE BACKUP KEYS IN THE UNINSTALL FOLDER THE uninstall.bat FILE WILL RE REGISTER THE KEYS
    WHEN YOU RUN uninstall.bat

    DOUBLE CHECK ALL YOUR WORK IF IT ALL LOOKS THE SAME AS THE INSTRUCTIONS

    THEN DOUBLE CLICK INSTALL.BAT “FROM THE KEY FOLDER ON YOUR DESKTOP”

    NOTE THE UNINSTALL WORKS THE SAME WAY “FROM THE KEY FOLDER ON YOUR DESKTOP”

    THAT’S IT LOG OFF AND LOG BACK ON NO REBOOT IS NEEDED

    WHEN XP COMES UP YOU SHOULD SEE THE COMMAND WINDOW MINIMIZED IN THE TASKBAR.

    WHEN XP COMES UP RIGHT CLICK THE TASK BAR CLICK TASK MANAGER

    CLICK THE PROCESSES TAB AND YOU SHOULD SEE SLEEP.EXE AS A PROCESS IT WILL DISSAPEAR IN 35 SECONDS

    AFTER IT DISSAPEARS

    CLICK START SETTINGS CONTROL PANEL SYSTEM LOOK AT THE PRODUCT ID BELOW “REGISTERED TO” YOU SHOULD NOW SEE THE PRODUCT ID

    OF THE XP YOU GOT IT FROM AND YOU WILL BE LEGIT FOR WGA (AS LONG AS THE COMPUTER YOU GOT IT FROM WAS LEGIT)

    AND MICROSCUM DOES NOT FIND OUT ABOUT THIS AND MAKE THE KEYS TAMPER-PROOF.

    THE FUNNY PART OF THIS WHOLE THING IS 8 FILES TOTALING 134KB JUST WIPED OUT ALL MICROSOFT’S EFFORTS TO CONTROL XP

    ANOTHER FUNNY THING ABOUT THIS IS THE XP CORP NON ACTIVATION STAYS IN PLACE SO YOU CAN REINSTALL XP-CORP THEN REINSTALL

    THIS WORKAROUND OR CHANGE ALOT OF HARDWARE AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ACTIVATION.

  2. Ignore that rubish thats to long

    1. Delete registry entries for the malicious program. To do this, follow these steps:
    a. Start the computer in Safe mode.

    b. Back up the registry.

    c. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.

    d. Locate and then delete the following registry subkey:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\RESET5

    e. Locate the following registry subkey:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents

    f. In the right pane, right-click OOBETimer, and then click Modify.

    g. Change any digit of the value of the OOBETimer registry entry, and then click OK.

    Note This step deactivates Windows.
    h. Quit Registry Editor.

    AFTER THIS

    Remove malicious files. To do this, follow these steps: a. Click Start, click Search, and then search for all the following files in the Windows folder. Delete any files that you find.
    • Reset5.exe
    • Reset5.dll
    • Reset5.dat
    • Reset5.dt*

    b. Delete the %systemroot%\System32\Srvany.exe file.
    c. Restart the computer in Normal mode.

    Enjoy computer hacker attackers
    😉

  3. hello everbudy could any budy help to come out of the validation of xp it gives me 30 nday days notification to validate
    i bought one genuine xp cd whose id is 76487-OEM-0049895-44866
    some of these keys i used to install the xp
    XJM6Q-BQ8HW-T6DFB-Y934T-YD4YT
    http://www.seriall.com/key/windows_xp_professional_key_fuer_oem_oem_dash_version_g_ltiger_originalkey_excl.html
    S/N: GPFJX-P2JDM-XY33X-RYh9D-XQGH8
    Windows xp professional oem 2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm
    S/N: tg9qw-q93xb-863wy-2kj3x-f9hyg
    but m not able to genuine it

    can any budy help me to come out of this problem given some corporate keys to validate it
    caution: i used many patch cracks but nothing works even key changers fail s…
    note; i register it at the time of installation but i think its no. uses exceeds
    so guys plz help me

  4. My suggestion would be to try out Ubuntu Linux, it is no where near as hard to install as you might think and you’ll get tons of free software (including an entire office suite) that is completely legal.

    You won’t need to worry about licenses expiring, virus checkers or anti-spyware checkers..

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