On Monday 21 February 2005 15:45, Bill Medland wrote:
By quickly looking at the program, I noticed it looks for a registry
key, this key is...
SOFTWARE\Wine\Wine\Config
the wine configuration key.
I was thinking, there may come a day when we have our own check
(say,
On February 19, 2005 03:19 pm, Brian Vincent wrote:
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:25:17 -0700, Jesse Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:28:59 +0100, Ivan Leo Puoti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
By quickly looking at the program, I noticed it looks for a registry
key, this key
I think something that has been overlooked in all this (and which is really off-topic for wine-devel, but I just can't resist) is the fact that with this GenuineCheck.exe program Microsoft are acknowledging the presence of another browser on Windows. Compare this to the situation with the
Hi,
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:36:52PM +0100, Sam Lauber wrote:
Agreed. Can't we just delete
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Software/Wine or move it to another name?
Eh?? This is certainly a non-solution.
Since they cared as much as actively checking for a Wine key
and preventing downloads in the case of
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:25:17 -0700, Jesse Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:28:59 +0100, Ivan Leo Puoti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By quickly looking at the program, I noticed it looks for a registry
key, this key is...
SOFTWARE\Wine\Wine\Config
the wine configuration
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Mike Hearn wrote:
If the mere existence of this key makes the validation fail, what's to
stop a virus from simply adding this key as a way to stop legitimate
users from downloading the security fix for that same virus?
Security fixes will be available for all users.
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
If the mere existence of this key makes the validation fail, what's to
stop a virus from simply adding this key as a way to stop legitimate
users from downloading the security fix for that same virus? If MS is
really doing what we think they may be doing here, I don't
Agreed. Can't we just delete
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Software/Wine or move it to another name?
In any case, at least from a technical point of view, going
around such test ought to be fairly simple
If the mere existence of this key makes the validation fail, what's
to stop a virus from
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:45:11 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Let's wait until they actually do something bad before we go around
accusing them, shall we?
Bear in mind, the reason they're doing this is almost certainly because
they know that Wine users often go there to fill in missing pieces
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:45:11 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
In any case, at least from a technical point of view, going around such
test ought to be fairly simple
I don't think we want to go there. I demonstrated a way of checking for
Wine to Rob last night that we really cannot fix or
Ge van Geldorp wrote:
When using IE and thus the ActiveX control there is no problem and my
Windows is recognized as genuine.
Looks to me the standalone validation program is seriously broken
What about IE under Wine. It looks like that might work?
Boaz Harrosh wrote:
What about IE under Wine. It looks like that might work?
Maybe, but I don't want to pollute my wine installation with IE.
Ivan.
Mike Hearn wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:45:11 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
In any case, at least from a technical point of view, going around such
test ought to be fairly simple
If the mere existence of this key makes the validation fail, what's to
stop a virus from simply adding this
As some of you may know, Microsoft is planning to totally restrict
access to the Microsoft
download center to all non-genuine windows users. So you would expect
some check for pirated
copies of windows to be involved. If you visit the download center with
IE you get an activex control,
but if
From: Ivan Leo Puoti
Interestingly if you run the validation program on wine,
and the version of windows you're emulating is prior to
2000 or is windows server 20003, you get a message saying
a validation code couldn't be found, because of technical
difficulties or because you're running an
Ivan Leo Puoti wrote:
A valid and working code is returned if the version is set to xp.
Still, even if this is only an initial attempt, they
appear to want to discriminate wine users, while this may be
acceptable for operating system components/updates,
this is probably a violation of anti-trust
I expect that the check program will be reverse engineered and cracked to
return genuine even for pirate copies in fairly short order.
Either that or the pirates will just grab the patches and circulate them on
the pirate sites anyway.
Jonathan Wilson wrote:
I expect that the check program will be reverse engineered and cracked
to return genuine even for pirate copies in fairly short order.
Doesn't relate to us in any way. We are not pirates.
Either that or the pirates will just grab the patches and circulate
them on the
Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
In any case, at least from a technical point of view, going around
such test ought to be fairly simple.
...but is likely to violate the DMCA, leaving users in a legal limbo
between the DMCA and the Fair Use Doctrine. What fun.
ScottG.
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