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| Microsoft to crack down on Windows 7 activation cracks via Update Posted: 13 Feb 2010 04:18 PM PST With Windows 7 being so popular these days every one are going for Windows 7.But to try this users usually get a legit copy or a download one from unrestricted sources.Microsoft said it will soon provide Windows 7 users an update that detects illegal copies installed using more than 70 different activation cracks.The update to Windows Activation Technologies (WAT), the anti-piracy software formerly known as Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), will be posted to Microsoft’s download site on Feb. 17, and offered as an optional upgrade via Windows Update later this month, where it will be tagged as “important.” Out the gate, the update will reach Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise users, said Joe Williams, the general manager of Microsoft’s activation and anti-counterfeit group. “I’d like to stress that the Update is optional which means that you can choose not to install it when you see it appear on Windows Update,” said Williams in an entry to the Genuine Windows blog.As i said this would be a optional update but if you don’t install this update then probably you don’t get any more security updates, patches, downloadable software etc. According to Williams, the WAT update sniffs out more than 70 “activation exploits,” Microsoft’s term for what others call “cracks” that sidestep the product activation process, or use stolen keys to illegally activate counterfeit copies of Windows 7.After the update has been installed, PCs running cracked copies will begin displaying a black background and the usual gamut of nagging notifications that mark the operating system as bogus. “Machines running genuine Windows 7 software with no activation exploits will see nothing,” promised Williams. Among the 70-some cracks shut down by the update are a pair that surfaced last November, just weeks after the launch of Windows 7. At the time, Microsoft said it was aware of the cracks — “RemoveWAT” and “Chew-WGA” — and was working on ways to disable them. A Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed that the WAT update will include signatures for both cracks.If WAT uncovers tampered, disabled or missing activation or licensing files, the software steps up its activity, and runs a check every week, and if necessary, repairs those files. Williams argued that the update is intended to keep “customers and partners secure,” a rationale the company regularly uses when it explains why anti-piracy software is necessary.So users are a given a chance whether to select this update or not, but not many users go to windows update and choose which files to update, they install it all.So for them in case they have a pirated copy they could fall into trouble.So suggest always buy legit software. |
| Snap dragon 1.5Ghz processor in the making Posted: 13 Feb 2010 08:18 AM PST Recently i had posted about HTC Incredible.Rumors seem to be creeping that there’s now an HTC Scorpion (possibly codenamed "Olympian") which might pack a scorchingly fast 1.5 Ghz processor and the as-of-yet unreleased Android v2.2.This is not 100% confirmed but similar leaked files have been responsible for the world to know that Android 2.1 even existed back then. Someone hooked the guys over at AndroidSpin up with what is reportedly a build file from this "Scorpion" device. The catch here, is that this leak is purely text – no images, no video, and thus, nothing tough to fake.Check out the build file below.
What do we incur from this above build file is some important points.
I will update once i get more details on HTC Scorpion. |
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