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Microsoft is set to change how users activate Windows XP. The company will introduce a new procedure when Service Pack 3 is introduced, early this year. According to a Microsoft White Paper, new installations of Windows XP SP3 will give users the same 30-day grace period currently offered to Windows Vista customers before they’re required to enter a product activation key, the 25-character code that proves the copy is legitimate.
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Microsoft reports “limited” attacks on Windows XP systems via an unexpected path exploiting a security hole in a copy protection program that comes with XP. (Windows Vista is not at risk.) The program that attackers are leveraging is Macrovision’s SafeDisc, optical-disc copy prevention software for Windows applications and games. The flaw is located in a system driver file called secdrv.sys. Microsoft immediately issued a Security Advisory.
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