For those guys who updated their Vista with the KB940150 patch without knowing what it does and promptly received a message regarding SL07-001 or other SL07 Activation Exploit being detected, here are a few workarounds :

Got fixes for SL07-001 and Sl07-006 or Activation exploit detection that were not listed here? post them at the comment box below

Workarounds / Solutions for SL07-001 Vista Exploit Activation Detection

“In order to continue downloading updates without installing the KB940510, all you have to do is go to windows update, right-click on the KB940510 update and chose HIDE. Then it will no longer show the KB940510 update and you CAN CONTINUE downloading all the other updates.” - Miguel

“After installing Vista KB940510 and BEFORE restarting the computer (You can check if the KB 940510 is installed or not from Install Updates list), search for all “wgaer_m*” files using Advanced Search. Make sure that you select all local drives or everywhere as searched location, and check the option to include non-indexed, hidden, and system files. You will likely see one or two files starting with wgaer_m. Delete all files found and then restart the computer. All detection will be done, and Vista computer will be working as per normal.” - VistaMe

Wokrarounds / Solutions for SL07-006 Vista Exploit Activation Detection

“Skip Windows Vista SP1 for now, it seems that SP1 can detect SL07-006 and SL07-001 activation exploits.”

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Update : I’ve started making a knowledgebase for solving both SL07-001 and SL07-006 problems here :Fixes for SL07-001 and SL07-006 detection problems (Vista activation exploit)


Ok, Windows Vista Update came up to me and asked me to Download a KB940510 update from … well I thought it was a regular update, hotfix and all that so i clicked the little Windows update icon in the system tray and installed the update into my system. The moment the update gets loaded into my computer, an alert box notifying me that they found something fishy going on in my Vista system. The alert box went on with this message :

“Windows has found software that circumvents Windows activation and interferes with
its normal operation. The presence of this software may indicate your copy of
Windows is counterfeit”

The detected software was : SL07-001 of type Activation Exploit and prompted me to go to some website and repair windows or else my system could get fuxored by microsoft anytime.

“Go online to repair windows. After repair, your copy of Windows must be activated.

If you do not repair Windows, Windows might disable the software and you may need to activate this
copy of Windows.”

Then theres a check box that informs you that the error message may only appear once, Which could be a message for those who had Vista activation cracked installed that the moment of M$ pwnage can come at anytime and probably when they least expect it.
Ok, Windows Vista Update came up to me and asked me to Download a KB940510 update from … well I thought it was a regular update, hotfix and all that so i clicked the little Windows update icon in the system tray and installed the update into my system. The moment the update gets loaded into my computer, an alert box notifying me that they found something fishy going on in my Vista system. The alert box went on with this message :

“Windows has found software that circumvents Windows activation and interferes with
its normal operation. The presence of this software may indicate your copy of
Windows is counterfeit”

The detected software was : SL07-001 of type Activation Exploit and prompted me to go to some website and repair windows or else my system could get fuxored by microsoft anytime.

“Go online to repair windows. After repair, your copy of Windows must be activated.

If you do not repair Windows, Windows might disable the software and you may need to activate this
copy of Windows.”

Then theres a check box that informs you that the error message may only appear once, Which could be a message for those who had Vista activation cracked installed that the moment of M$ pwnage can come at anytime and probably when they least expect it.

After closing that, i went on to inspect what change the KB940510 update did to my copy of Vista and nothing seems out of order. No new processes were running, nothing in the msconfig, the startup key in regedit. Well i dunno about service.msc, I’m still quite new to Vista and i wasn’t able to identify which service wasn’t supposed to be there. Nothing seems to have changed except for feeling you get when you know that when you restart your computer, Vista might not be the same on you or Lock up on you anytime or something like that. Probably the same feeling that a person gets when he contracts some fatal disease whose effect would kick in anytime soon.


I checked Windows Update again to see if there was a follow-up update or something that could be Microsoft’s “finishing blow” to those who have the SL07-001 activation exploit. Nope~ nothing fishy, updates were still coming as if my copy was activated. Other optional updates that i haven’t installed in the past were still listed there as well as an nVidia driver update dated 2/27/2008 was also in the list.

So yeah, you’ll probably hear from me again when that time comes. And yeah I HAD IT COMING (lol). And I’ll probably post a fix to the SL07-001 Activation Exploit detection or something to remove the SL07-001 activation exploit detection script

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