The Sandman
Uninstall Manager V2.60 - Question 1
Fri Nov 6 16:31:55 1998


Greetings Crackers & Welcome,

Our in-depth look into System Notebook proved a great success to everyone who took the time to explore it's hidden secrets. One of the biggest lessons learned from this project was that even a 'weak' protection system such as the one used by System Notebook can be disabled in one of many ways, depending on how closely you choose to look.

To say a program has a 'weak' protection system is an empty statement unless this can be proven in detail, to others who also understand the program's protection system as well as you do.. Can you see what I'm saying here?, we have to explain as best we can, our thoughts and ideas on how we were able to figure this out in order for others to follow.

At this early stage, no one is looking for any cracks/patches for this program, so if you do manage to crack/patch this program early on in this project (it's not too difficult after all) then please DON'T spoil it for the others, instead help them in stages so that they too can find the same answers as you.

Here's the information you need to begin..

Program Name: Uninstall Manager V2.60
Program URL : http://members.tripod.com/~umpage
Program Size: Small

As a slight change to the previous cracking project, I have just one question to ask, however, it will cover a number of areas so take your time..

Question 1:

Without Using Softice, explain what information you can get from running Uninstall Manager that a *cracker* will find usefull in deciding how best to attack this program. This will involve using for example, REGMON, FILEMON, W32DASM and of course your own eyes to gather this information. The kind of information we would look for will be Registry Changes, new files being created, any support .DLL's, protection systems being used etc etc..


Good Luck..

The Sandman