An article has been posted at Vista.Blorge.com about a BIOS hack that allows illegal copies of Vista to be installed on many computers.

A Microsoft senior product manager said “Our goal isn’t to stop every ‘mad scientist’ that’s on a mission to hack Windows. Our goal is to disrupt the business model of organized counterfeiters and protect users from becoming unknown victims. This means focusing on responding to hacks that are scalable and can easily be commercialized.”

Currently, there are two methods that have been identified which can crack Vista’s OEM Activation 2.0.

According to the article, some editing in the BIOS is the first method while another method uses a faked identification which convinces Vista that it is running on an OA 2.0-enabled hardware.

Source: Vista.Blorge.com