I have this program called PowerPat Plus from h**p://www.pat-services.co.uk/ It is a program For Portable Appliance Testing Equipment. When you install this program there is a 14 day limit and then the program ceases and your data is destroyed. I would like to remove this time limit need to be pointed into the right direction on what to use and what to look for to do it.

Thanks for your help
Zeus

zeus:

Not a good start for your first post. Go to the bottom of the Forums and click on and read the "Read the FAQ" link. We don't do all the work for you. Yours looks like a simple crack request. You need to do some study on your own, then investigate your target, make some effort and THEN show where you have become stuck. Also do not post target specific code now that you have identified the target.

There is a search button in the top banner, you should use it. You are dealing with a "time limit" of some form and that is a good place to start searching. Read up on that topic. The program has to keep track of the passage of time in some manner and there are tools available to attempt to record where it has hidden its information which allows it to do that. There are programs which attempt to determine if its using some identifiable commercial protection system. Have you used any of those? Have you looked at the code at all? Do you have the slightest idea how to do that?

Nothing in your question suggests you have attempted any of these things or know anything about what you are doing. You may be experienced, I'm only pointing out that you post does not indicate that you are. Reversing is a learning curve which requires the imput of time and effort. Progress is dependent, to a large part on the investment of those two things.

Regards,

thats why i posted that i need to pointed in the right direction...i am looking at this app for a friend and i have no idea of what i am doing or how to do it. i am willing to read and learn and i am not asking that someone else do it for me. Just what to read, use, and where to go from here.

Zeus

$574.00 in US Dollars. And that was the cheapest I could find.

You would have to have the top choice rig back in the day to run that software.



They must be the only ones who make such software and feel the need to "rape" people.

Woodmann

1 In Exe tools, find a copy of Win32Dsm and download it. Learn to use it.
A Copy of SoftIce or Olly debuger. Learn to use it.
A copy of HIEW, learn to use it.

Download the Crack Notes from Tornado. Visit Krobar Tutorial site and start from the basic tutorials.

A time limit usually can be attacked by catching the computer asking the CMOS: What date and time is it?
I think I gave you a fair general direction of where you need to go.