In the late 1990s and early 2000s, system administrators used Norton Ghost to clone hard drives. A "Ghost image" was a perfect, byte-for-byte copy of a disk. Pirates quickly realized they could create a master image of Windows with a cracked activation, then "ghost" it onto unlimited machines.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, system administrators used Norton Ghost to clone hard drives. A "Ghost image" was a perfect, byte-for-byte copy of a disk. Pirates quickly realized they could create a master image of Windows with a cracked activation, then "ghost" it onto unlimited machines.