'Brute' Force Attack on Windows Vista now 'Moot' Force Attack

posted by  hjwin (10)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Over the weekend we learned that the widely covered 'Vista Brute Force Keygen' turned out to be a hoax. It's nice that the originator has come forward and is encouraging everyone to buy and use genuine copies of Windows Vista.

As you can imagine we receive reports of hacks every week. Many turn out to be ineffective, but to determine that we review and investigate every report. One of the first questions we ask ourselves with each reported hack is 'does this represent a real risk to our customers?' As we learned with XP, counterfeit software can be quite