Re: vmWare, virtualPC, dedect , ... IN/OUT

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Tom Stewart (tastewar_at_newsgroups.nospam)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:15:35 -0400

"Chuck Chopp" <ChuckChopp@rtfmcsi.com> wrote in message
news:uafRowKdEHA.2812@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Mario Semo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >>Although it is possible to clone a single VM such that the copy of it even
> >>has the same MAC address on its NIC and the copy of Windows on it keeps
> >
<snip>
> You could take 10 identical laptops and Ghost the same hard drive image onto
> them so they had the same name, same system SID value and even have the MAC
> address configured through software so that they would be identical. In
> that situation your software would be just as easily fooled into running on
> more machines than it was intended to run on.
> --

Depends on whether the "protected" software queries the CURRENT_ADDRESS or the
PERMANENT_ADDRESS. On an actual laptop, it would be hard to alter the permanent address, but
(presumably) it would be easy on a virtual machine. I know, just a detail... 

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