Posted by Unique2 on 1/14/2000, 7:09 pm
, in reply to "No, I aint dead baby! ( Unique2's Thread )"
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When the program is first run you are greeted with a pretty much standard shareware introduction message. This message ( also known as a nag screen ) contains some information that may be usefull: 1) There is a thirty day time limit.
2) I am on day 0 of 30.
3) Clicking purchase will give us some more information.This screen has three options:
1) "Evaluate", presumably continue without registering.
2) "Purchase", as we noted above this gives us more purchasing info.
3) "Register", i guess this will be the place to enter a name/serial.I like to gain as much information about my target as possible before running any tools such as softice or reg/filemon, so I am going to click on "Purchase". Now lets see if the info on payment gives us any clues as to how this protection scheme operates.
..."After Acon AS has recieved the payment, you will get a key code sent to you by mail or email."... interesting, so the program is not critically disabled i.e. there is no code or functions missing. This is a good sign. I am pretty sure this is going to be a name/serial check or maybe a keyfile which are a little bit trickier.
Lets close the helpfile and checkout what happens when we click "Register". Standard window with name, company and keycode fields comes up. Lets put in some dummy values and see what happens.
We get a message box saying: "The key does not match license owner.", take note of this. Now we are returned to the nag screen. Lets click "Evaluate" now. Nag screen disappears, now lets check for any interesting menu items. Ah, its not what is there but more what is not there. I notice there is no option that lets you register the prog, only information about registering. This seems to suggest that the registration information is stored somewhere, maybe the registry or a file and is checked on startup.
Next I will fireup some tools and have a poke at the innerworkings of this program but for now I am going out for a couple of pints.
If you need any assitance or have noticed anything I havn't or think I am talking out my arse, either mail me or leave a message on my thread.
Have fun.
Unique2:Nicf