zbeng Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 Index IntroductionSerials Windows32BitDisassembler: String Fishing SoftIce: Getting Started Short Intermezzo about APIs and dlls Combining the power of Windows32BitDisassembler and SoftIce SoftIce: The 'Break on Memory Access' Approach Other Serial ProtectionsPatching A warning before we start Finding the offset of the code you want to patch Intermediate way of finding the serial Let's Patch! Spreading the Patch ProblemsNags Very Easy Nags (MessageBoxes) Universal approach to get rid of those nags Hard Nags Intermediate: String fishing using a hex-editor and W32dasmKeyfiles Arriving at the protection scheme Some common keyfile checksVisual Basic Cracking Introduction Requirements Visual Basic Programs Approaches Case1: Visual Basic 3 Programs Case2: Visual Basic 4 Programs Case3: Visual Basic 5 and Visual Basic 6 programs Using Numega's Smartcheck Using SoftICE and W32DasmGreyed targets and CrippleWare Find out if the target is missing a feature UncripplingCD-ChecksLast Words And GreetzToolsAPI's that might help you breaking into SoftIce API's that are used to get text from the screen API's that protection scheme's might use API's that keyfiles protections use API's that CD protections use API's that are used to read/write from plain text files (INI, CFG) API's that programs use to access the registry API's that have something to do with time API's that put a nag-screen on the screen Visual Basic APIs Compare APIs Other APIs that are commonhttp://learn2crack.com/Guide%20to%20Cracking.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...