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If you don’t know who he is, he is the one resposible of bringing you some of the greatest wallpapers in Windows Vista. Hamad has released the entire Windows Vista set of pictures at his flickr page.
You can download the high resolution (1920×1200) version at his website.
A hacker by the screen name “Computer User” had recently announce on some internet forum that he had created a crack program, that allows one to search and obtain a legal Vista product key. The crack simply tries to inject product keys into the OS until it finds keys that are accepted by Vista. The crack is able to search through 20000 keys in an hour.
A few days after, “Computer User” announced that the crack was a hoax, and should not work as he had added codes in the crack that causes it to generate invalid product keys. However, some users who had used his crack claimed that they had obtained some legitimate product keys. One user had even posted a video clip showing the entire process.
Alex Kochis, a senior licensing manager from the WGA team had acknowledged the possibility of such an attack, but attempts to downplay it.“The attack randomly searches for legit keys. This is called a brute force attack because there really isn’t much intelligence involved and the goal is to just randomly cycle through key after key after key until a legit one is found. One report indicates that the script written to perform this attack goes through about a thousand keys every half an hour; frankly, that’s a pretty slow brute force attack.”, according to Kochis.
Also from him, if a legitimate customer was affected due to the product key he got was activated by the brute force crack; such issue can be dealt at the customer service level.
Microsoft had released a patch that resolve an issue which may cause a network adapter to register invalid IP addresses into a DNS server when an adapter’s GUID is changed.
Download: KB929451
Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor is designed to help Windows XP users identify whether their PCs are ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista, which edition of Windows Vista meets their needs, and which features of Windows Vista will be able to run on their PCs.
Ever been in a position where you just can’t make up your mind whether to get a copy of the new OS? Here’s a guide which hopefully can help you in ur decision making. But… Just don’t take it too seriously. LoL
http://www.bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2007/02/vista_upgrade_flowchart.pdf
The IE icon on the desktop had been removed permanently. The simplest way to ensure that there is an IE icon on the desktop is to create a shortcut for it. But the shortcut is not the real IE desktop icon, you cannot access IE properties and other function thru it.
Below is the method to restore the original IE desktop icon.
Yes, its real Vista product key. Apparently, some users are so happy for purchasing their own copy of Vista, they had decided to share with the world a picture of their Vista product. They had taken picture of the Vista package, the case, the DVD and posted them on the internet. Little did they think that they had also taken a picture of the Vista product key label along side with the DVD case. So, its sharing time. LOL
While it is not exactly a clean install, it does guarantee that you only have Vista codes on the machine.
First, you install Vista without the product key. This will effectively put Vista in the evaluation mode, where you have 30 days to play around with it. Then, install Vista again over the existing copy. This time, type in your product key, this will install Vista into your system again. After that, delete the “windows.old” directory which contains the old installation of Vista.
Days after Vista was launched, some users had been discussing about the possibility exploit on the Speech Command feature. The speech command is one of Vista new feature. It allows user to speak thru the microphone, and the OS will execute the command given, that is, if the voice command is a valid command.
The exploit is not due to a bug in the Speech Recognition system, but rather the design of the system. It works by sending a victim a malicious audio file that contains voice commands, then by tricking the victim to play the audio file, the Speech Command will pick up the command thru the microphone (where the audio file was played out thru the speakers) and execute whatever the command is. For example, the victim received an audio file that has “shutdown” recorded in it. Unknowingly, the victim played the audio file and the Speech Command will pick it up and execute the “shutdown” command.
However for this exploit to work, the Speech Command must be enabled and the malicious audio file had to be played. Fortunately, the Speech Command is by default disabled.
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