It took billions of years to detect Vista activation code

A hacker has just released a "keygen" tool to generate automatic activation code for the latest operating system. However, Microsoft officials say the process takes billions of billion years (billions of billions) even if the software counts 20,000 codes per hour.

A person on the KezNews.com forum, where the hacker said on the "keygen" software, calculated that it took 1,351,869,740,791,670,000 years for the program to scan the combinations that made up the "key" of 25 words. number.

Some people have found but most have to give up on this. " I tried it for half a day, but I got nothing ," wrote the member, Black_Necro Thursday . " There is very little chance of success ."

Alex Kochis, Microsoft's director of digital rights protection program WGA, said the risk of detecting Vista's activation code is negligible. " However, we will ensure customers' rights if their code matches the code that the hacker detected. Users should notify when the system rejects their legitimate activation code ."