Posted by LaZaRuS on 1/16/2000, 4:04 pm
212.139.131.131
Greetings Crackers This forum is limited to 200 postings, which is a nice disadvantage, but that doesn't really matter. I downloaded all old postings and uploaded them at
http://members.xoom.com/faxanadurox/tasks1/index.html.
Although the next tasks, the intermediate ones are now presented you can still give answers to the first tasks or ask about earlier postings.The tools you need are (search at http://protools.cjb.net)
A debugger (I use SoftIce)
A disassembler (I use W32Dasm)
A HexEditor (I use HexWorkshop)
A Ressource editor (I use BRW)
A registry monitoring tool (I use Registry Monitor/RegMon)I have seperated the cracking into 4 periods: Easy/Intermediate/Hard/Extra tasks. I will only present the easy tasks now, and please don't post any stuff that is not related to the current tasks (for example: post keygen source right now). The challenge is not about speed, but about learning.
Actually I wanted to present my own solutions at the end of each period, but all of you guys worked absolutely perfect and my answers look quite lame compared to your findings. ;)
Now...The intermediate tasks:
II. Intermediate Tasks
II.1 Try to get rid of the nagscreen Find a patch that removes the nagscreen (the one that appears at startup.
II.2 Change your date and bypass the "Evaluation period expired" nag. Find a patch that makes the program never expire.
II.3 Make your name and company appear in the "About screen". In registered versions, the name and company replace the "Unregistered" in the nagscreen - Find a patch for it.
II.4 Get a valid serial for Name:Unregistered - Company: Unregistered Now, the serial-stuff begins. Get a valid serial for the specified name and company.
II.5 Find the "best" patch for nagscreen, time limit, register box (accept all serials) and About box. Patch the file in a way that you remove all limits by changing less than 7 bytes - 3 bytes are my solution, so go for the 2 ;)Good luck
LaZaRuS