Windows Vista “Brute Force Keygen” a hoax

By Paul Miller | March 3, 2007

It sounded too good to be true, and it turns out it was. KezNews forum frequenter “Computer User” confessed last night that his Brute Force Keygen hack for Windows Vista is a scam. “Fact is the brute force keygen is a joke, i never intended for it to work. I have never gotten it to work, everyone should stop using it! Everyone who said they got a key a probably lying or mistaken!” Oddly enough, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of ZD Net, who we sourced the news from yesterday, claims to have found two activation keys with this method, so it’s hard to tell who to believe: a confessing prankster, or a potentially duped but trusted source. For the moment, we’re going to go with Computer User’s word on this one, because the likelihood that Microsoft would issue enough keys to make a random key generator at all viable for obtaining 25-character product keys is pretty dang slim.

[Via Slashdot]

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