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Program:		DrDo Chinese Language Trainer v3.03

Home Page:	http://www.ThinkRed.com

Size:		4.9Mb

Prog Synopsis:	doh!! - helps with learning Chinese  ;-)

Tools needed:	W32Dasm


Method:

This proggie is the usual 30 day program with nag reminders.

OK, this is a story about how a stupid cracker (that's ME!) tried to find 
the 'echo' i.e. the true serial number.

I thought I would soon find the 'echo' so I loaded the proggie and had a 
quick look to determine that it was a Visual Basic program.  OK, so I fired 
up SmartCheck and went through entering any s/n and tried to find the 'echo' 
- no joy.  Aw, what the hell, no problem - I fired up SoftIce and set a bpx 
multibytetowide and went through all of that checking but again no joy.

This damn proggie was getting to me.  I'd spent at least a couple of hours 
trying to find the elusive s/n.  I thought this is crazy - lets get back to 
basics so I decided to load up the .exe in W32Dasm and check the strings.  
OK so fire up W32Dasm and hit the button marked Strn Ref. to bring up the 
list of string data items.  Peruse through this and towards the very end I 
spotted 2 items that warranted investigation i.e. 'T39B21' and 'T8799HAO.  
So I typed in the registration box T39B21 and would you believe it the 
"Thank you for registering" box came up.

What a lamer!!  It just goes to show that being too clever by half doesn't 
always pay and that you should take things stage by stage to avoid yourself 
having unnecessary trouble.

I won't forget this in a hurry!!

Job done - Yee haw!!

Hope this helps

jkon7

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