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How I Removed the Windows XP SP3 Activation
My Windows XP Home just finished downloading and installing the SP3 file. After I restarted my PC, I was greeted by the following icon:
Uh oh. If I can’t activate or crack this WPA in 30 days, I would not be able to log in to my machine anymore. I tried the crack I used for SP2 but it won’t work with SP3. So I began searching the net but most hacks I found will just disable the alert but not the 30 day countdown.
I found a crack (ANTIWPA-V3.4.6 FOR X64 AND X86.zip) for SP3 on torrent sites. I’m very careful in using cracks on my machine so before I download the file, I made sure that my PC is clean by doing a full virus scan. Once it’s done, I downloaded the crack and extracted the contents.
One of our readers cleaned the zipped file so there’s supposed to be no risk of infection. I uploaded the file here (Ziddu) or you can get it from here (MegaUpload). Thanks Marton!
My AVG alerted me of a trojan virus on one of it’s file but I’m not alarmed though. Most cracking files whether it’s for a game or a software are always tagged as a virus by AVG so I went ahead and ran the main file to patch my Windows. Before I restarted my machine, I deleted all the crack files so AVG will stop pestering me with alerts.
Time for the moment of truth. I restarted my machine and did another full virus scan. I also did my checklist for detecting if my PC is infected by a virus by checking for:
- New files in Windows system folders
- New and odd processes that appears on my task manager
- Autorun.inf files on my drives
- Startup processes via msconfig
- Startup processes via regedit
All is clean. I typed oobe/msoobe /a on the run command and voila,
The crack worked and I can now enjoy SP3 where I noticed a bit of speed improvement especially during startup. Thanks to CW2K for creating the crack.
Hope this post helped you guys who are figuring out how to remove the WPA. Of course, piracy is illegal. This is just for educational purposes.
If this worked for you, please let others know by leaving a comment.
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my avg no longer bugs me about trojan virus messages. This was after i ran “regsvr32 /s antiwpa”
My pc now works well, i even managed to install windows media player 11. I wonder how long it will last before it crashes or logs me off & displays the “windows is alreay activated” screen
i installed this today because i was close to my 30 day limit. i had installed it before but for some reason it still said i only had 7 days left to activate, and when i checked i was already activated, so i put the crack on again.
Vundo trojan is definitely part of this crack and its now giving me loads of popups, so now i have to try and get rid of this too. URGH.
it gave me pop ups on my IE, but nothing on my Firefox. If this is the case for you, you could change your IF settings to stop the popups:
Tools>Internet Options>Connections tab LAN Settings button
Then use proxy 0.0.0.0 and IE wont connect to anything. it may affect other programs, but it’s an easy, quick fix.
Thanks, I got rid of the virus after a bit of searching around the internet (i think!), nothing has popped up in a few hours so I can assume its gone, winlogin.exe and a few other things had to be locked and replaced according to the logs I read, according to the program smitfraudfix and AVG free ran in safe mode.
But I’m still getting the message when I log in that I have 7 days to validate so I’ll have to try running the crack again without checksys.exe.
calvin: hi jim, the checksys.exe is not critical i think. you only need the dll and type the command to run it.
Hi. After playing around with it for about half an hour when I was bored I can 100% confirm that checksys and the exe are NOT needed, they DO contain the Vundo virus which is a bit of a pain to get rid of so beware, anyone that reads this.
All that needs to be done is to use the antiwpa dll and do as said on the top of the page, start>run “regsvr32 antiwpa.dll” when you have moved to dll to your system32 folder.
I was down to 3 days left to activation, but I’ve done this and just restarted my pc and I got no warning about activation, I’ll see if it comes up again when I turn the pc on tomorrow but I hope I’ve finally dealt with it as nothing else would work.
AVG WILL flag up the .dll as “potentially dangerous” or whatever it says, hack.GEC or something, ignore it, add an exception.
To anyone with the Vundo virus, be quick and get it while its been installed early as it tends to run away and hide when you’re after it and it gets more dangerious as time progresses.
some advice:
Download Smitfraudfix and AVG free, update AVG, turn off resident shield for now.
Go into Safe mode and open AVG and do a complete virus scan, destroy anything that is flagged up (including wpakiller for now).
Then run Smitfraud while still in safemode. Select option 2, and if it asks, clean the registry. Reboot into safe mode again.
Next, go to Control Panel click Display>Desktop>Customize Desktop>Web> Now, Uncheck Everything and delete if present:
· “Security Info”
· “Warning Message”
· “Security Desktop”
· “Warning Homepage”
· “Desktop Uninstall”
Also make sure the ‘Lock desktop items’ box is unticked. Click OK, and then Click Apply, then OK.
Reboot into normal mode.
Open Smitfraudfix, select option 3, restore trusted zones when asked.
This worked for me in getting rid of Vundo, itll take a while but it seemed to be the only thing that did it, “Vundofix” didnt work and AVG alone cant do it.
Enjoy!
excellent!! Thanks for the advice man!
Thanks a ton for this info! One thing worries me though:
Followed the instructions as written, and after restart, ran antivirus. Picked up vundo trojan, and the antiwpa, which I ignored. So far it doesn’t look like vundo is reappearing. What I want to know is, is it absolutely necessary to keep antiwpa in the system installed past the 30 day warning? or can I delete it via antivirus after the 30 day period?
Hi Wyuli, the important thing to retain is the .dll. you can delete .CMD and .EXE that comes with the zipped file.
Looks like a shed load of effort, especially when there are cracks on torrent site without viruses. 3out of the 5 I downloaded via Piratebay were bad, but detected before installed … and in total it took me no longer than 5 min to download them, and my xp machine is working now.
no effort involved, just take the wpa killer dll and register it to your system 32 folder, done! my instructions were just incase you used the .exe that came with it which installs vundo.
i tried quite a few torrent cracks and none worked for me, this was much easier when you learn how to do it without the .exe, takes 2 seconds!
hey guys
i installed the crack with vundo
did not want to go through the troubles of cleaning it so uninstalled the crack
then i tried just copying the antiwpa.dll to windows/system32
all that is fine and dandy
but when i try to run “regsvr32 /s antiwpa”
it says it is not an executable file and no registration helper is registered for this file type
what did I do wrong?
i didnt type “/s” in run. Just “regsvr32 antiwpa.dll”
DO NOT RUN THIS! IT IS NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE OF THE VIRUS!
Simply manually place the included dll and run the “regsvr32 antiwpa.dll” command.
The install program is infected with the vundo virus which took me several hours to remove. Uninstalling the program, after installation will not remove it!
boy… I LOVE YOU!!!!
thought id update and say yes this now works completely, 100%. its been three weeks and windows by now should have nagged me to activate, nothing has came up. good stuff.
I DID AS ROCK COMMANDED BUT I STILL GOT THE
not an executable file and no registration helper is registered for this file type MESSAGE
what file were you trying to register? unzip the contents and put antiwpa.dll in your Windows\System32 folder before typing “regsvr32 antiwpa.dll”
Does this crack also work for XP Pro? Or just Home edition?
According to some users who commented, it didn’t work for their XP Pro. Sorry.