at one time there actually was an "Aaaarh matey!" type message when a pirated license key was discovered in the product. It would show up offering the user the opportunity to go legit by purchasing a license at a substantial discount. It was very lighthearted and quite generous. That was back when they first implemented many of the license validation changes and discovered how much piracy there was, and they decided rather than leaving all those users without any protection, that it would be better to give them a grace period during which to decide whether or not to accept the amnesty offer and go legit for a fraction of the normal cost of the software, and many of the users took them up on it, with several of them citing the fact that they found the messaging humorous and Malwarebytes' attitude about it (remaining jovial and amicable rather than harsh or trying to intimidate them and taking away their protection completely) as reasons for purchasing. As I recall, they sold a LOT of copies of the software that way during that amnesty program, meaning a lot of users who were previously pirating the software went legit and got full protection in the process.

I'm really glad that they handled it this way. Most larger software companies probably wouldn't have handled the situation so gracefully because all they see is the bottom line, and all they tend to think about are marketability and profits. Showing a sense of humor about your own software being pirated is exactly the kind of thing that makes Malwarebytes stand out as a different software company and makes me proud to support their efforts because they put their heart into their work and it shows. They actually care about helping and protecting people, not just driving up the price of a stock. That kind of genuine humanity is missing from most companies these days, at least in my opinion and based on my own experience and observations.

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Definitely, I appreciate that!

Perhaps in the future, they could even have a contest on the forum for who can design the best Easter Eggs, and select from their favorites before implementing them.

Somewhere on the forum (I forgot where), I started a thread about different Malwarebytes Goodies that people could grab to show their support for the company, be it little things like screensavers or entire windows themes, to physical merchandise, or even sticker packs for apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and/or Facebook Messenger. I'd totally commission an artist to make a Malwarebytes sticker pack if I had the budget for that.

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Pyburn tweeted that after the first unsuccessful attempt, the tech elevated his support ticket, and another Microsoft employee logged into his system through the Quick Assist remote app. The YouTuber was surprised that the Microsoft employee resorted to a very unexpected method to finally activate Windows, namely one of those "pirate" scripts designed to mimic Microsoft's official servers to bypass the OS legitimacy check.

In the interest of research, I've been digging into message boards and forums run by unabashed Windows enthusiasts who are intent on breaking Microsoft's activation technology. I've had these forums bookmarked for years and stop in every once in a while just to see what's new. This time I decided to drop by and actually try some of tools and utilities to see if I could become a pirate, too.

If you do intend to try this stuff out for yourself, I recommend extreme caution. My hunt for utilities that bypass Windows 7 activation technologies led me to some very seedy corners of the Internet. First, I did what any red-blooded wannabe pirate would do and tried some Google searches. Of the first 10 hits, six were inactive or had been taken down. After downloading files from the remaining four sites, I submitted them to Virustotal.com, where three of the four samples came back positive for nasty, difficult-to-remove Windows 7 rootkits. Here's one example:

Page 3: Fooling Windows by tinkering with the BIOS

Big PC makers get to install copies of Windows that don't require activation. Naturally, pirates soon figured out how to make any PC look like it came from one of those big factories.

Page 4: Microsoft versus the pirates

Pirates are clever and fast. Microsoft is highly motivated to keep its lucrative Windows revenue stream intact. Are customers going to get caught in the crossfire?

In a fitting piece of irony, the most recent version of RemoveWAT actually goes out of its way to install Microsoft's WAT Update (KB971033), which is designed to detect and remove tampering by programs like... well, like RemoveWAT. The pirate code remained working even when I ran the WAT update manually.

Windows pirates figured out how to exploit this hack around the time Windows Vista was launched. The Windows 7 Loader program, which I used on a test system, looks at your PC's BIOS to see whether it contains an ACPI_SLIC table with software licensing information ("markers" for the Windows operating system and the name of the computer maker). If the SLIC table is present, the tool installs the correct product key for your Windows 7 edition along with a digital certificate; the combination mimics a legitimate OEM preinstallation. For systems with a BIOS that doesn't contain the proper SLIC tables (a scenario I didn't test), it uses an alternate boot loader (typically some variant of GRUB) and installs BIOS emulation code to fool the system into thinking your system is a legitimate OEM installation. You can use the one-click installer or select from advanced options to personalize your PC by choosing a particular brand.

The system, which had never been activated, had previously been nagging me with "non-Genuine" warning messages. As soon as the pirate tool completed its work, the watermark on the black desktop went away and the System properties dialog box told me I was activated with a Dell OEM product ID.

The two exploits I describe in this post are certainly not the only ones out there. Indeed, Windows pirates have been playing a cat-and-mouse game with Microsoft for years. In the Windows XP era, pirates focused most often on stealing legitimate product keys, especially Volume License keys. Beginning with Windows Vista, Microsoft has begun building anti-piracy components directly into the operating system, and pirates have aimed their hacking skills at those components with increasing sophistication.

The latest salvo from Microsoft in the war against pirates is the Windows Activation Technologies Update (KB971033). In its default configuration, it performs an initial validation check and then repeats the process every 90 days, downloading new signatures to detect exploits that flew under the radar in the previous scan. When I initially wrote about this subject last month, the question I heard most often was, "Why does it need to keep checking? If I get validated, shouldn't that be good enough?"

In the past, that would have been counted as a win for the pirates. But with its new signature-based system, Microsoft can improve its exploit-detection code and, at least in theory, identify the updated hacks in 90 days (or, in the worst case, 90 days after that). The point is that pirates can't count on getting a permanent free pass on activation. If you're a hobbyist obsessed with pirating Windows, you have to put up with the nuisance of updating your hacking tools every few months. But if you're selling pirated software (in a box or preloaded on a system), you risk getting put out of business and maybe sent to jail when the systems you sold in March are detected as pirated in June or July.

There's a common misconception that only diehard hackers mess around with pirated software. The reality is that anyone can be a victim, especially if they ever need help reinstalling Windows or repairing some sort of hardware problem. I have lost count of the number of times I have seen a PC that contains a pirated copy of Windows installed by a nephew or a neighbor or even a local computer tech who was trying to share the cool thing he found on the Internet. Back in 2007, I wrote about a firsthand experience with a PC repair tech for a major national chain who used a pirated copy of Windows to "repair" my friend's PC.

One thing I learned while researching this piece is the phenomenal determination of pirates. They've become increasingly sophisticated and are able to react extremely fast to changes from Microsoft. For Microsoft, responding to those fast-moving targets without inadvertently inflicting collateral damage on its customers is a tremendous challenge.

Users running pirated copies of Windows 8 Pro can reportedly upgrade to a fully licensed and permanently activated version of the OS by simply installing a free Windows 8 Media Center upgrade offered by Microsoft.

Noveleven did not give instructions on how to obtain a pirated copy of Windows 8 and activate it using a rogue KMS server in detail. However, this information can easily be found on various Internet forums.

the software vendors prefer this state. They used to be really bad about this, with McAfee outright deleting files with the filename of keygen.exe, saying that it was an uncleanable virus, and that the file could not be cleaned. To this day, I still find key generators (which have no malware code at all in them) declared viruses or malware. The more honest programs will outright tell you it's a keygen, and classify it as potentially unwanted program, but will still want to delete it. Windows Defender is one of the more honest ones in this regard, and will outright tell you it's a windows hacking tool to bypass validation.

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