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Re: Checking for hackintosh
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Re: Checking for hackintosh


  • Subject: Re: Checking for hackintosh
  • From: Kyle Richter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:48:00 -0700

There are also a handful of companies out there that are selling prebuilt generic PCs with Leopard preinstalled onto them (ie Prystar). In terms of fighting it with your software it might be best to let Apple worry about it, but you can most likely pull the system profiler information and compare it against known Apple branded information to see if the machine fits into a valid model.

Kyle

On Jul 30, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Abernathy, Joshua wrote:

Seeing as how the OS itself thinks it's running on Apple hardware, I
have no idea how you, running on the OS, would detect otherwise.

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] On Behalf Of Devon Ferns
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:42 PM
To: Tim McGaughy
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Checking for hackintosh

Someone hacks the OS X kernel to bypass Apple's checks for a legitimate
Macintosh and usually posts it to some p2p site where people
steal(copyright infringe) it and run it on their home build PCs.


Devon

Tim McGaughy wrote:

On Jul 29, 2008, at 9:22 PM, John Joyce wrote:

Does anybody have a means or a tool for checking for hackintoshes?
I really don't approve of such things and would like to leave clever
messages on my own software if it is run on a hackintosh.

What's a hackintosh?

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 >Checking for hackintosh (From: John Joyce <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Checking for hackintosh (From: Tim McGaughy <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Checking for hackintosh (From: Devon Ferns <email@hidden>)
 >RE: Checking for hackintosh (From: "Abernathy, Joshua" <email@hidden>)

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