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A DREADed Guide to Cracking

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Index

Introduction

Serials

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 Protections

Patching

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

Problems

Nags

Very Easy Nags (MessageBoxes)

Universal approach to get rid of those nags

Hard Nags

Intermediate: String fishing using a hex-editor and W32dasm

Keyfiles

Arriving at the protection scheme

Some common keyfile checks

Visual 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 W32Dasm

Greyed targets and CrippleWare

Find out if the target is missing a feature

Uncrippling

CD-Checks

Last Words And Greetz

Tools

API'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 common

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