Does anyone have any pointers to Soft sentry tutorials? I have an app that appears to use Soft Sentry for its registration. It allows 30 days free use, and then you have to send in the number it quotes to get a registration code. It looks like one of those "number-from-the-disk" schemes.

The only thing I have used so far to dig into it is WDasm32, but once the screen gets to asking for the registration number it will not single step the screen because it is in the NT innards.

Hi
I had 1 tuts SoftSentry ver 3.0
Hope its helps

Loren

Hi Antipodean,
I found an app some time ago that used softsentry 3.?? that didn't function the same way this tut sorts. It was just a case of changing the exe so it didn't jump to the ssentry dll file which lived either \windows or windows\system and tweaking a reg entry if I remember right. If you still dont get it, post the app's url.
Scally

Thanks for the tutorial Zenloran, although as Scally6 says, this particular app uses a DLL, which although not called by a Soft Sentry name has SS entry points. I will have to investigate the possibility of just bypassing the DLL entry points

The app is a route map application that came on a magazine CD, and is not downloadable from the original providers web site. It is called Route Tracker, and was issued on an english magazine. Potentially useful as it can be hooked to a GPS to keep track of where you are.

If that dll was called auto2k.dll, then its just a case of making sure it doesn't get called from the exe. None of the stuff I dl'd coped with this version & even protecting an exe with the softsentry prog gave different results. I couldn't believe the protection was so simple but it was.
Scally