CADZzz
February 27th, 2003, 05:50
1)What is the problem....
MIDAS/gen , program for analysing steelstructures (www.midasit.com)
2)What is the protection.....
Sentinel
3)What tools are you using....
Ollydbg1.09
4)What tutorials have you read....
Cyberheg /Crackz (respect)/Goatass etc...
5)Show your output listing WITH comments....
Text strings referenced in wg_meng:.text, item 1489
Address=06F58385
Disassembly=PUSH wg_meng.06F88EF8
Text string=ASCII "Lock is not detected.
Please confirm if the Lock is properly connected to a Parallel Port."
6)NOW ask your question....
First i want to say is that i am totally not interested in the protection itself , my interest goes out to testing and evaluating as much as CAD/FEA programs as there r on the market, just for evalution purposes only (believe me or not)...and make a good choise for buying licenses for my construction company...
To fully test CAD programs its mostly neccesary to have full working versionsu can play with. Thats why i learned a little ASM and mega lots of ZEN for the programs that i cant find cracked in the warez scene.
As i dont understand enough ASM to emulate and reverse dongles i most times search for the piece of code that triggers the program and patch it. Mostly my chances a pretty good when the protection also includes a trial period, cause most developers just build in switches for triggering the program how to run.
My recent target r the MIDAS programs....
I managed to crack 1 out of three already...the FEModeler...because it was easy to find where the program was triggered...by referenced text strings.
Next r MIDAS/gen and MIDAS/civil.
But the other 2 programs pre-load all the text strings in memory (cause its multilanguage i guess).
I found the dll with all the english text in it, but no calls were made to that dll at all (tested by setting bp's).
Hehe...finally my question:
How can i find the place where the text is stored in memory and more important where its called from!
Regards,
CADZzz
MIDAS/gen , program for analysing steelstructures (www.midasit.com)
2)What is the protection.....
Sentinel
3)What tools are you using....
Ollydbg1.09
4)What tutorials have you read....
Cyberheg /Crackz (respect)/Goatass etc...
5)Show your output listing WITH comments....
Text strings referenced in wg_meng:.text, item 1489
Address=06F58385
Disassembly=PUSH wg_meng.06F88EF8
Text string=ASCII "Lock is not detected.
Please confirm if the Lock is properly connected to a Parallel Port."
6)NOW ask your question....
First i want to say is that i am totally not interested in the protection itself , my interest goes out to testing and evaluating as much as CAD/FEA programs as there r on the market, just for evalution purposes only (believe me or not)...and make a good choise for buying licenses for my construction company...
To fully test CAD programs its mostly neccesary to have full working versionsu can play with. Thats why i learned a little ASM and mega lots of ZEN for the programs that i cant find cracked in the warez scene.
As i dont understand enough ASM to emulate and reverse dongles i most times search for the piece of code that triggers the program and patch it. Mostly my chances a pretty good when the protection also includes a trial period, cause most developers just build in switches for triggering the program how to run.
My recent target r the MIDAS programs....
I managed to crack 1 out of three already...the FEModeler...because it was easy to find where the program was triggered...by referenced text strings.
Next r MIDAS/gen and MIDAS/civil.
But the other 2 programs pre-load all the text strings in memory (cause its multilanguage i guess).
I found the dll with all the english text in it, but no calls were made to that dll at all (tested by setting bp's).
Hehe...finally my question:
How can i find the place where the text is stored in memory and more important where its called from!
Regards,
CADZzz