Cracking Projects For Newbies

Project Six Has Now Started... Tuesday, 02-Feb-99 20:24:45 195.182.165.1 writes: Greetings Crackers, Welcome to Project VI! Before I proceed, I ask everyone to note that I do NOT want to see any postings that reveals the final crack or serial # before I ask for it. Failure to heed these words will result in your whole thread being deleted from this forum permanently. I will not stand by and see hours of hard work go down the drain because someone was too impatient to allow everyone else time to catch up. Also, to keep this forum as legal as possible, I ask that if you post a serial number generated from this program that you make sure you use ONLY the User Name: Pirate Copy When you are ready to post, please create your own message thread and place any postings you make to this forum inside your own thread, unless you are replying to someone's posting. Okay, with these out of the way let us continue.. Information Gathering... ------------------------ Gathering information about our target program is vital to our understanding of it. Newbies especially, will often skip this stage and dive into their target program with the hope that they will strike it lucky by finding that all important conditional jump and proceed to Nop it out, or to change it into a unconditional jump. So what!. Okay, they may then find they can do this a few times then wham!. They hit a brick wall. So what should they have been doing.. Well, as we know, no two programs are the same, each has a story we must read, understand and learn from. Even the humblest of programs can teach us new tricks and techniques that might otherwise have been lost to us. Patience and a keen eye for detail can crack even the hardest of protection systems where brute force tactics fails. Your First Task... Okay, for the first part of our 'crack' gather as much information as you can about our target program and write all this down on paper. Don't trust your memory to remember all this information in a week, month or 6 months time. In your own message threads explain what you have found and how it may be of use to us. Here REGMON, FILEMON, W32Dasm,Regview, our eyes and any help files for our target program will be of great help to you here.. We do NOT need to use Softice at this stage so leave it be for now, it's time will come. Program Name: Memory Game '95 Type : Shareware memory test game Size : 158K Download : http://www.cyberspy.com/~thesandman/Files/mem95.zip Good Luck! The Sandman The Sandman

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