A-book v2.2.1

DL at http://www.dualitysoft.com/abook/index.html

Requires a kew file called abook.key

It's is real nice "full-featured contact manager with intuitive interface. You can keep all your friends, family and business contacts' information in one organized and clear environment".

I just started on it. Made some progress by just creating a bogus abook.key with some easily tracable characters in the file. Now tracing thru in Sice where they read the file and all that. If anyone tries it let me know if ya make any progress in actually reversing a good key file or just get around the check.

Hi zitterbe,
I took a quick look at the proggie. It can be patched in one location by moving a 1 into the memory flag that is used. In that case, the proggie is registered and it does not even look at the file abook.key. Not sure yet how it all relates together.

You can make it pretty by typing in the user name and regcode in the registry at:

HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\PIM+\A-book\Settings\UserName
HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\PIM+\A-book\Settings\RegCode

The RegCode appears to be in the format:
WIN-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx with x's being letters (small and capital) and numbers.

Thanx. I did a quick look in the Registry but didn't mess with trying to trap reads and writes. Anyway, I found the algorithm that interprets the key file. Been playing with reversing that. I'll go find the Registry test after I fail at reversing the key file :-)

Thanx for helping.

zitterbe