If you look at "REMAINING GRACE:" it says 180 days which means you have successfully KMS activated. You can press that Activate button to try and reset those days (EX: going from 90 back to 180, you can do this endlessly). KMS activation is only good for 180 days but you can just keep resetting it. That's what AutoKMS does, runs at boot to reactivate.
I just installed Office 2010 on a fresh fresh Windows 7 (this is the first application I'm installing) and I tried to register it with Office 2010 Toolkit. When I pressed the EZ-Activator button, a file (c:\windows\keygen.exe) was created and tried to access the Internet (Windows Firewall noticed me). Since the file came from MyDigitalInfo and seemed to be trusted, I accepted the notice. After that, Microsoft Security Essentials detected a trojan on my computer. I thought that it was a false positive due to the keygen, so I ignored. 2 minutes later, I ended up being infected by a virus: Antimalware Doctor. I'm sure about that since many popups start appearing about this antivirus, requesting me to pay to clean my computer. This is a fresh install. The only thing I did since my fresh install is: downloading the .EXE from Microsoft server (the link was heading to Microsoft domain name), changing it to volume with the Office 2010 Installer Channel Switcher (I used the link on MDL) and using the EZ-Activator from Office 2010 Toolkit (the latest build I found on the forum). Honestly, you should watch out with this application. It wasn't a simple false positive, the fake antivirus was installed on my computer, blocked Firefox / IE, the registry and removed the taskbar in safe mode.
Did you happen to use a USB flash drive or a portable hard drive at any stage after installing windows? If so, it could be that they are infected and the malware installs itself into whatever PC you plug it into... It's happened to me once. Tip: Creating a new folder in your USB drive and naming it "Autorun.inf" without the quotes, will stop any malware from executing... A general Windows rule is that a file can never overwrite a folder.
I didn't insert a USB / CD disk in my PC. Everytime I install a new Windows, I turn off the auto-boot feature to avoid USB virus. The virus came from keygen.exe (created by the EZ-Activator), I honestly can't see any other way. I know what are fake antivirus blocking application. I finally got over it, but I'll probably still reformat to make sure it's not hidding somewhere.
Are you sureyou couldn't have been infected some other way? You are the only one who claims infection via keygen. Still, I find it weird my NIS 2011 says it blocked remote host from connecting to keygen and I can totally block it in my firewall and it still work. Unless somone can make a open source KMS keygen we are stuck using the current one.
Still, why is this keygen.exe connecting to the Internet? It must get some code from a server out there. Someone should reverse the application or use Wireshark to see the packets transferred. Like I said, I'm almost sure at 100% that the infection comes from keygen.exe created by Office 2010 Toolkit. If it doesn't come from this, it's coming from the Channel Switcher. The only clue pushing me toward the toolkit is the firewall notice about keygen.exe, Microsoft Security Essentials detecting a trojan JUST after the Firewall warning and a couple of seconds after, I start getting Antimalware Doctor popups. If it's not infecting everyone, it might also infect hosts randomly or for some other reasons to avoid being detected as a source of infection.
I don't know if there's a new/different keygen in mini-kms v1.31 but wzor has posted it since last few days. also an honest question for CODYQX4: what exactly keygen does anyway? (within EZ activator) 'cos usually keygens activates softwares permanently and so far there isn't any keygen out there for Office 2010 that does it... so for what exact part EZ activaor needs a keygen ? many thanks in advance
They have a unpacked Keygen (its double size but still heavliy complained about by AV). It Listens on port 1688 (The default port PCs listen for KMS). It runs on that PC so if ou send a KMS activation request the Keygen will generate activation code and this sends to Office to try and activate it. It emulates a KMS server. The exact details how it does this are unknown as we can't see the code. The Emluation is needed to KMS activate else attempting KMS activation won't do anthing at all.
Isn't it possible to have a loader like one for Windows 7 to activate Office. Windows 7 loader doesn't want to connect to internet.
Even if activation worked the same, we lack the key. The Windows loader installs OEM Key/Cert and emulates the SLIC in BIOS.
Hi guys. I just downloaded MS Office 2010, but i'm having difficulty installing it. Is there a way to install Office without a product key(registry hack)?
You have Retail, use Stannieman Channel switcher to make it VL or DL a VL copy. You could also use a leaked retail key but you will mke it easier on yourself to go to VL (as all Office cracks/activation are VL based).