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FreeIce
February 11th, 2009, 17:03
Hi All,
Last night I spent nearly two hours trying to get NuMega SoftIce to work, but didn't have much luck. I have a CD to a program but I don't have the password for it so I thought I could use the instructions on this site to create a keygen. According to the instruction that I was following I was supposed to first install what ever program I want to create a keygen for. Then once the program asks for a user name and password, I would go into SoftIce and type in BXP Lstrcmp, get out of the program by pressing F5, select Register, and enter my name and a fake serial number. The problem is I don't see the register option, and it did not ask for a name, it asked only for the password. What do I do, also F11 works just like F5, it turns off SoftIce, is that supposed to happen? Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance for your time.

JMI
February 11th, 2009, 20:47
The "problem" is that you are attempting to do something you don't yet quite understand and you have not yet taken the time to actually learn about the complexity of the issues you may face.

As an example, it appears that you are following some form of tutorial, but you are apparently unaware that for several years there have been substantial issues with getting Softice to run on "modern" machines. There are many threads here, in the Tools of the Trade Forum discussing such problems, but I doubt you have taken the time to read any of them because you are rather too anxious to become a "cracker," rather than a "reverse code engineer."

This is not a craft that you can just sit down one day and know all you need to know to effectively defeat various copy protection schemes. You are apparently unaware that makers of protection software also read the "cracking" tutorials and attempt to make their programs resistant to such cookie cutter methods of reverse engineering.

How about you try not to be so set on a meaningless "victory" and take a step back and actually attempt to "learn" something about what you are trying to accomplish.



Regards,

SiGiNT
February 12th, 2009, 01:42
IMHO,

And you'll get some disagreement, SICE pretty much became more of a problem than a help after WIN98, WIN2K and NT were retired - go with Olly or if you really need a RING0 debugger then use the free one that M$ offers up, (I'm assuming it's still available to the public and it's still free).

SiGiNT

Actually I don't think I've ever seen tabulated or narrated the advantages of a RING0 versus RING3 debugger, seeing as how I'm considered as been around forever, still stoopid as a stump, you'd think I'd know that.

PS: JMI, the last line of my sig is just for you!!! - had to pause olly just to refine it later!

JMI
February 12th, 2009, 02:56
Wasn't the line:

If at first you try and don't succeed .... try to con someone into doing it for you!!

Or something like that.



Regards,

SiGiNT
February 12th, 2009, 16:11
Training, training, training, GAWD I hate that word that's something you do to a pet or a learning robot - I learned everything I need to know when I learned how to read and then to think for my self - if you aren't curious about how your toaster works, and if you never totally ruined something just to see how it works, (or by trying to make it work better), then you shouldn't be trying to fool around with software - JMI here's your soapbox back!

SiGiNT

And Tesla had it nailed.

XER
February 12th, 2009, 21:47
@ SiGiNT - I think you made a typo. In the last line of your sig, I think you mean "If someone can do it for you, you'll never learn". Because it doesn't make a whole lot of sense the way it is now.

SiGiNT
February 12th, 2009, 22:00
No it looks correct just an AND function, to paraphrase, we need video training for every target we select. I'm targeting the "show me how" mentality not the point me in the right direction. But you are correct in what you are saying also.

SiGiNT