Hi,

A small stupid question. In online activation process usually the professional software companies use Http channel to veify the serial of the user from database. So the we can easily trace that outgoing link with the help of http debugger.

But few companies use socks channel to verify the key or serial from there database. So is there any tool which i can use to grab that outgoing verification link.

http://www.etherdetect.com/

http://www.effetech.com/sniffer/

Both are free, its easy to use, just RTFM.

Once you get the hostname you can block the app from connecting to it by adding it to your hosts file

%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

just add a line:

127.0.0.1 activate.someserver.com

save and then reboot.

Wireshark is great! http://www.wireshark.org/