Well, what a weekend that has been. Ever since the reports started emerging online of a brute force attack on the Vista activation code using a modified version of the original software license manager script file I have been, shall we say, dubious as to the authenticity of the claim. Not least because amongst all my contacts in the security research business, on both sides of the industry fence, I failed to find a single one who could verify the crack through their own personal experience.
So I was left with just the one option: try the keygen script for myself. In two days of constant running it returned the grand total of, well, no valid keys at all in fact. There was little shocking me when I read that the original poster of the keygen code was now claiming it had all been a hoax.