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It’s one of those program you wish you had installed, when a major crash happens. I had to re-install all programs a year ago, when windows was beyond repair. Retrieving each key by hand was possible, but took ages. I could have done with this program then.
[@Ludwig] except many programs require remote authentication to actually activate a given license key and quite often the key cannot be re-used for new activation or the activation server is no longer available or the information present is NOT a key but just some random registry entry that is keylike enough to fool the algorithms programmed into this or similar program… there is NO replacement for a recent system image backup! and this is not a replacement for a system image backup that simply preserves the license state of all non-expiring licenses on your system.
what is the purpose of meventagent.exe that after startup and initial quick scan of system and before activation tries PERSITENTLY and repeatedly indefinitely to access some remote site via IPv4 and IPv6 addresses that my windows firewall UI is reporting and temporarily blocking … which since the program activated without enabling this unsolicited programs internet access, I’m inclined to block as it seems rather risky to me to have unexplained unsolicited encrypted communications with foreign servers from a potentially admin process since it was spawned by an elevated process.
It just lists strings found in HKLM or HKCR /SOFTWARE sub key entries meaning there is a lot of garbage and they do not specify which exact registry key path the string belongs to so if it does stumble across an activated key that is not usable without the registry location to re-apply it in the future as the UI may not accept the key in that format… to me this is a badly programed false positive laden piece of riskware due to the unsolicited and suspicious network activity of the unidentifiable meventagent.exe potentially leaking unknown data to an unknown 3rd party. I don’t recommend this program if you have private data on your system, it’s not secure and innocent beyond reproach.
[@TK] the process meventagent.exe remains active AFTER you exit the main program and task manger showed it consuming around 45 to 50% of multi-core CPU resources and WAS running with elevated rights so it had access to all our secrets, thankfully it was blocked from accessing the internet with whatever data it was harvesting for the developer to googles servers and my firewall warned me about each and every unwanted communication attempt… this program will be removed with prejudice i.e. will never be re-installed in the future, this vendor has had their chance! And grossly abused it.
Microsoft Office keys cannot be retrieved by any software because they are not kept on your machine. Some part of the key is kept on the machine (about half the serial number) but the rest is on Microsoft’s servers.
The programs that claim they co recover them cannot do so except for VERY old versions.
