Software License details of Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, Microsoft Office, Windows XP and tons of other software can easily be located on Google by running this simple query:
"Belarc Advisor Current Profile" "Software Licenses" "Software Name" key:
These are actually real software inventory reports generated by Belarc Advisor, a popular tool often used to backup software licenses.
The only problem is that innocent users have placed these HTML reports in public directories of their web servers, the search engine spiders index them and in-turn expose the secret software keys to the whole world.
Though most new Adobe and Microsoft software will require additional web or phone activation, that is not mandatory if the Belarc reports have Volume License keys. Scary.
Find this article at: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/06/software-serial-numbers-and-cd-keys-on.html
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Reader Comments
Looks like they have removed the page. It does not show up in the results anymore
Written on 24/6/07 9:03 PM
@Danesh
It does work. Search without quotes..u'll get it
Written on 25/6/07 3:23 PM
Wow..a former M$ MVP exposing one of the most brilliant yet unethical way to bypass product registration (especially, since a majority of the commercial products are owned and/or developed my M$) ! Nice.
Written on 26/6/07 4:56 PM