Installed pirated versions of Windows on all employee and customer computers. We charged the customer for an os install and just used a cracker to activate it.
One of the more recent cracks would be autoKMS which would emulate having a key management server and redirecting all activation requests to itself. You could see that service running and the associated files.
Installed pirated versions of Windows on all employee and customer computers. We charged the customer for an os install and just used a cracker to activate it.
An everyday job in any 3rd world country
yeah if you replace “3rd world” with “and every”
Is there any way a customer could figure out they were running a cracked version?
Depending on how it was cracked, maybe.
One of the more recent cracks would be autoKMS which would emulate having a key management server and redirecting all activation requests to itself. You could see that service running and the associated files.
If they are using stolen MAK keys, it’s unlikely.