--= Hi again =-- So you didnt manage to crack this one ? Well, hopefully this tut will help you out a bit. Since the crackme was encrypted or packed, and wont go into this it so deep. I will simply tell you how its done. --= The crack =-- Fireupp the crackme and press ok on the info nag. Then put in your name and any serial, dont press ok yet. Switch to softice and set a breakpoint on getwindowtexta. :bpx getwindowtexta Switch back and press ok. Boom! Hopefully your now into softice. Press F5 once and then F11 to load the fake serial and get to the breakpoint. At this stage you can remove the breakpoint: :bc * Then press F12 once to get to the code we are looking for. Continue the pressing, but use F10 instead and trace down the code until you come to something that looks like this: 0040164C MOV EAX,[EDI+64] ;Our serial into eax 0040164F MOV ESI,00403100 ;The real serial into esi ......... Below this, it starts comparing our serial against the real one, but since we already go the serial, i dont have to write anymore. Just do: :d esi and you will se the correct serial :) Hope you had fun! tarq