Category Archives: Reverse Engineering

           The Easy Protection Schemes And The Lazy Protectionists            Everyone in our trade knows InstallShield Software Corporation. Well those great programmers have created some new packages, InstallFromTheWeb v2.1, PackageForTheWeb v2.1 and InstallShield Professional East Edition v5.0 all  very neat products indeed. I … Continue reading →

Overbloated Notepad v1.00 Documentation – A short summary of what this program is. Finally, an honest to goodness Visual Basic 5.0 Overbloated Notepad to callyour very own! What you could have written on a scrap piece of paper suddenlycomes to … Continue reading →

I have recently been working on a disassembler and have thought about the ways protectionists can fool them, pretty easily.  Note that disassemblers do not have artificial intelligence Approaches that disassemblers may be able to bypass: 1 – Jump statements … Continue reading →

How to reverse Cuteftp32 V2.0 After installing this Program, a NagScreen tell us thatthe program is fully functional for a 30 day period, whenit finished some functions will be disabled.Hit Cancel because we don’t want to begin our trial period. … Continue reading →

DOS  Navigator v1.50(TSR spying/cracking)   by Frog’s Print -: ) As the name says, DOS Navigator v1.5 (available at http://www.ritlabs.com/dn/ from the authors of THE_BAT!, an e-mail program with a nice protection that may drive crazy some newbyes…) is a DOS … Continue reading →

PALMTOPS CRACKING- A (LATE) TUTORIAL FOR THE HP 100/200lx -(ex: QuickStar Fax Pro V1.10 for HP)  by Frog’s Print -: ) You probably know (or at least have heard about) those small computers that fit in the palm of your … Continue reading →

In the world of protections you can still find stupid protections. Stupid protections are protection schemes you can remove as soon as you see the disassembly code. Here is another example of these. If you’re a beginner in reverse engineering … Continue reading →

Object Oriented Protecting: the case of the tl32v20.dll       (Timelock vagaries inside DisKeeper Trial 3.0 for NT Workstation)   ==================================================== Target: us_dkwstr_i.zip (length: 1,854,701 bytes , Build 176t)        A defragment tools for Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Tools:      1.) SoftIce for NT      … Continue reading →

Hi dear Fravia,I’m not a cracker myself, but I’ve been creating some protections inside some of myscientific research data analysis programs. These were only to protect myself from mytoo-lazy coworkers – they would like my programs, and sometimes they were … Continue reading →

First i would like to thanks Fravia+, +gthorne, the_owl, niabi, razzi, josephco and all of you guys that i can’t remember now. This is my small contribution for the war against our beloved bill and Micro$oft, i hope you enjoy … Continue reading →

Cracking Quake2 (Cracking "the most anticipated game of the decade")  Well that’s what quake2 has been called. The game was released         in the USA on December 9th, although it has been availible for         download on the internet since … Continue reading →

Well, merry Xmas to anyone… since on Xmas everybody is nice, I sent an email to Mark Rosen (Author of Kremlin, a very nice guy, see his complete letter inside Jon’s Blowfish essay) and I wrote to him:>Your last protection … Continue reading →

Well, our dongle cracking project was being a little neglected… which is not nice, yet somehow understandable… huge economic interests are in play here, and many ‘lower’ crackers prefer to find an ‘economic’ arrangement with the dongle producers instead of … Continue reading →

Cracking +RCG’s Example 4 (Self32.exe) First of all I would like to thank +RCG for having written this exerc-ice (sic! it was a nice christmas present forme to work on.I have cracked it at christmas’ eve in about 5 hours,which … Continue reading →

HomeSite is the HTML editor that changed the way I look at everythingof its kind – its slick, often-imitated interface cleverly borrowedfrom Borland Delphi, new ideas and features from all kinds ofsoftware…like M$ Visual Basic 5′s code completion, has inspired … Continue reading →

 :::: TARGET TTFPlus 3.3 32-bit demo (url : www.wmsoftware.com)  :::: TOOLS  W32Dasm 8.9, SoftIce for NT 3.01, UltraEdit-32 4.40b  :::: PROTECTiON Quiver protection (see +ORC, lesson 4.1). Internal counter.  The demo counts the number of times you select a font you like … Continue reading →

  This is the windows’ dark age… a period of fear and poverty and black magical software arts, where only few wizards, inside the high Micro$oft’s towers, know how to assemble and disassemble software, while the stupid peasants programmers are … Continue reading →

Target File: Netscape.exe version 3.01 Gold, 3.02 MB (42.4 MB Decompiled "dead listing") It is now, as I write, 1997. The Internet has become a combination library, software warehouse, and television: more than ever before, a cracker’s Web Browser is … Continue reading →

The program is Regview version 2.2, get it at ftp.winsite.com orftp.orst.edu The program has a few more tools than Regedit.exe. For example, you cancompare directories,Registry, etc. It has a Nag message and a 30 days trial. To begin with I … Continue reading →

Hi guys, here’s my little work on nsce. (nsce.exe by Matthias Wolf, version 1.20, 22 Aug 1996, 147.456 bytes, dead listing is about 2.109.000 bytes). This program is a cache explorer, it shows you all the sites saved in your … Continue reading →