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Hi and welcome to my cracking tutor. in this one i will teach you 
how to crack Brad Sobelsky Crackme #1 and #2. 

Crackme #1
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this one contains serial only protection, 
which is very easy to defeat in this case.

Tools:
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SoftICE 3.24 or higher

Essay
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Open up the crackme and enter a random Serial number (6543212).
Click 'Check' and you get the error message.
Type Ctrl+D to go to Softice, and breakpoint on getdlgitemtexta 
(bpx getdlgitemtexta), and get out of softice.
Click the check button again, and you are in softice again.
Click F11 once and begin to trace down using F10. stop when
you reach this point of code:

015f:0040155C     LEA  EAX, [EBP-OC]

type 'd EBP-OC' and u see our false code in the data window.
scroll up one line higher in the data window (ALT + UP),
and you see this strange string: "<BrD-SoB>"
enter this as a code, and viola, you get the good message!
after that, i looked at the code in a hex editor, and then
I found out that the serial is lying there! 



Crackme #2
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Now we move on to brad's second crackme. the protection here is 
Name/Serial Protection.

Tools:
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SoftICE 3.24 or higher

Essay
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Open up the crackme and enter a random name and serial,

WhizKiD
12341234

go to softice and break on getwindowtexta (bpx getwindowtexta).
go back to the crackme and click ok, and softice pops.
press F11 3 times. what we are going to do here is what called
a string search search. a string search for our dummy serial.
type:

s 0 l ffffffff "12341234" 

this means search length of the string "12341234" which is our dummy serial.
you'll get the message that the pattern was found, and you will see it 
in the data window. scroll down 4 lines in the data window, and then you should see
a number.


Final Words:

Using string search can get you the serial only in a very weak-protected
programs. you can also call it a lame way, but it does the job :)

greets to anyone reading this

-WhizKiD/ID