-----cut here------------------------------------------------------------------- Usefull Tools in Cracking + Cracking Chinese Horoscope 1.0 (newest version) by --..__J_o_h_n_n_y__A_U_M__..-- (TNT) --------Motto for my actions:------- I'm for peace, love and prosperity and one global nation but without money to divide us and without ego, who keeps men separated! Be a man of good sense - be naturally, be divine! Try to progress on spiritual way! No God, no freedom! I'm against tyranny under any form, against mondial iudeo-masonic occult domination and against infiltrated bad rase of aliens! Out with Satan from this planet! Real happiness, free and freedom for all! -------- Hi, guys, the forces of divine are back! I decide myself to write this tutorial about usefull tools in cracking and helping tools, in the ideea that this could be very usefull, in special, for beginners in cracking. Don't worry about this word - beginner - we are beginners in something all our life! Before the begining of descriptions I wish to personally thank to all this wonderfull cracking tools authors who put great efforts, time and intelligence to produce such of state of the art programs! In fact, I need to thank to all who have something to create and to give to others for improving their lives and work (or passion) in better! All this tools or most of them can be found on these sites: http://protools.cjb.net http://protools.hpage.net http://w3.to/protools http://www.suddendischarge.com http://202.103.100.253/hambo/cracktools.html http://www.crackstore.com/tools.htm Or ask any advanced cracker to help you! In this tutorial I would not describe SOFTICE, W32DASM, SmartCheck, ProcDump or HIEW - these tools are detailed in older tuts! Now, Universal Pictures presents: THE TOOLS! 1. One of the most important tool after the tools named above, after me, is a compare tool: RixComp 4.87 - my choice (site: http://www.radsoft.net). Soon you will have a tutorial for cracking and enhancing this fine tool (this with the generosity and help of CIA & tKC, thanks a lot, guys!). I use this tool in combination with a DOS comparing tool - bfc.com (Binary File Compare). You can find these tools at www.geocities.com/john_aum/john_files/crk_tools.zip . I alternate RixComp with bfc.com (DOS program) because bfc.com give me very fast the exact number of differencies that exist, interesting, no? 2. A program hardly needed, after RixComp, is a program who automatically makes cracks in DOS and/or Windows - here are 3 most used by me: DOS - PatchIt 2.2 (very good on many differencies); in Windows, but DOS style - Eliminator Patch Compiler 3.01 (by our beloved tKC, I love this man!) and for Windows - PatchMaker 0.99a. Of course, these progs makes cracks from comparing your original_prg.exe and your_cracked_copy.exe files. Soon, if posible, (thanks to CIA and tKC) I'll make a tutorial for improving PatchMaker 0.99a, because with the improvings maded by me, the work with this program becomes faster, and we wish to work faster, if posible. And because authors don't appear with a new version, I'll do it, for helping me & you. Beginners must notice that for advanced cracks, like double or triple cracking (3 files in one move) or for modifying Windows Registry must make their own cracks or search the WEB for more complex patchers. 3. WinPatch 1.2.8 (from www.artistryinsoftware.com) is a great patcher (tKc use this, too) for patching a file or a group of files (update them) even if the new files are bigger in dimensions. Atention, when you patch, you must make 2 different subdirectories: one with original file(s) and second with modified or bigger file(s). You need this proggie badly, so grab it now! 4. ConfigSafe 3.06.04 (or older versions)! You absolutely need this extraordinary tool! What it can do? WOW! Ha, ha, ha! Can do this: find any modification maded in structure and number of subdirectories or files, in Windows Registry, almost anything it moves on your hdd, can be detected! This after installing a new soft or after a new entry and exit in and from a program. The program will tell you where is counting the days remaining on your trial period and many others about new writings in registry or hdd. For me, even more extraordinary is that I've never seen this program to be recommended by crackers, maybe they are keeping this secretly! The time of revealings has come - you can find the trial version of this program at site: http://www.configsafe.com/html/demo.html . I'll tell you how to crack it on a coming tutorial (with the help and kindness of CIA and tKC). 5. Registry Crawler 1.21-2.0 (http://4developers.com) - very usefull when you need to find something very fast in Windows Registry or to go on same adresses (bookmarks) on many times. You must have it! 6. File Info 2.30 - this program can identify many files types and can tell you in what language is build an executable or if it is crypted or packed and with what software. Can tell you if a document is in Word, txt, html or enhaced txt & many others; this even on renamed extensions. Is one of the best around!Grab it! 7. DeShrink 1.6 - this program can deshrink or decrypt executables or binary files maded with Shrinker 1.0 - 3.4 for you, so in this way you can have access to real code of program with w32dasm with/or hiew tools for directly modify the bites. 8. UnAspack 1.0.8.3 - this nice software can unpack beatifully for you any program packed with Aspack untill version 2000 & 2.1. You must have this! 9. UPX 0.xx-1.00 - good compressor and decompressor of executable or binary files. All versions can be found on http://upx.tsx.org or newest at sites above. Excellent packer and unpacker for DOS or for Windows GUI progs. It's a must for a cracker! 10. Other important decryptors or unpackers: Bye PE-Crypt v1.02, UNP V4.11, UnArmadillo v1.1.1, PEunCompact v0.01 and many others. If you found an unknown crypter/packer search for it on www.suddendischarge.com, for example. For packing your cracks (to be smaller) use Aspack 2000 or 2.1 or UPX 1.00. 11. An interesting tool is Compare2Crack/486 v0.06b (c2c.com).This fine DOS tool will provide you very fast a list of all modifications (differencies) between 2 executables or binary/dll files: the original and your cracked copy of it. This list will be created as a txt file. Very usefull somethimes! 12. Another fine tools: help2com, com2exe, exe2com, com2txt, Topo 1.2(for adding of a window at the begining of a program), bat2exec, loupe.exe (for viewing details in a bmp or icon), htmstrip.exe (for converting an HTML into a txt file), xdoc.com (for converting a txt file into a DOS exe), PRIVATE EXE 2.2 (put a password on your GUI exe file - see my tutorial from tKC tut no. 72), cracker.exe and/or pcracker.exe (cracking progs that crack with help provided from *.crk files), old SOFTICE 2.x-2.8 (DOS progs) and others. 13. GameTools 3.23 - a program with functions and design similar to SOFTICE;this program can help you a lot in debugging and cracking DOS games and softwares. 14. SuperSnooper for Windows - this nice proggie will show you only the text from an executable; you can download a similar (but DOS) program from my site: www.geocities.com/john_aum/john_files/crk_tools.zip. In the zip are even more usefull progs. Also take a look at my infos from www.geocities.com/john_aum; all there is for you; be well informed and tell to others! 15. Exescope 5.12, Restorator 2.50, Resource Grabber 2.42, Resource Hacker 2.3.0.2, Resource Scrutator 1.21, MultiRipper 2.70: all these are progs that grabs quickly the resources from DOS and/or GUI (windows) softwares like icons, bmps, delphi resources, jpgs, mods... You must have these excellent progs! And Exescope is one of the best! Decompress or decrypt first if neccesary! 16. And of course you could provide yourself with languages of programming for to produce your own cracks in DOS or Windows: Turbo Pascal or Borland Pascal 7.0, Turbo C 2.0, Visual Basic 6.0, Delphi 5.0, MS Visual C++ and others. Search after them with mega-engine www.profusion.com or www.metacrawler.com . Of course, this too: Masm 32 5.0 or another ASM GUI compilers. And Learn ASM well! 17. I almost forgot! Here must be reminded also HEX Workshop 3.02: a fine hexeditor of exe & binary files (or the others). Nice functions: can shorten or prolong files, copy or replace fragments from files (an icon or a bmp for instance, when Exescope can't). I've tested many hexeditors, but this appears (in my opinion) to be the fastest & easiest! Of course, I alternate this program with Hackers's View, the best ASM & hexeditor for crackers! 18. If you use nfo files near your cracks, use NFO Builder 0.9b or newest version to easily build your own nfo files (http://fnw.tsx.org) . At the end: all these (after me - of course i'm subjective, anyone is) fine tools mentioned in this tutorial are one of the most important in every day job of a cracker. -------------------- Cracking Chinese Horoscope 1.0 (newest version) WWW: http://www.springsoft.com Cracker: --..__J_o_h_n_n_y__A_U_M__..-- Protections to be removed: expiring, some nags and disabled options Tools: W32Dasm, Hacker's View, both backgrounded by Windows Commander 4.03 Altough in tKC tut no. 74 is my tutorial about cracking Chinese Horoscope (first version ever) now you only can download from www.springsoft.com the 1.0 version, so here you have on short, how to crack this version. Due to the lack of space and because almost all steps in cracking this software are similar to tut 74, except the new adresses where to modify bites, I'll not give you details on how to crack these identical protections, only the final modifications (but you must practice if you wish to advance in cracking): - first protection (copy enabled) 812D - 75 -> EB - second protection (print enabled) 8357 - 75 -> EB - third protection (begining nag) B647 - 55 -> C3 The new NAG protection added by the producer in this version, will be explained by me in detail, now. - first, make a copy of chscope.exe -> y.exe and dissasemble it with w32dasm; - press ALT-S-F (search in w32dasm) and look for words that appear in error nag (after imputing dates) -> "You may only view people..."; OK! We found the place where is this nag! Press PageUp, you see this call - USER.MESSAGEBEEP, yes? Above it is the conditional jump 75 03 (w32dasm adress 2.1347). We could make this 90 90 for never show us the nag but we observe at 2.1331 - 74 03. If we make this instruction 90 90, the program will go faster at the right adress, jmp 13F6 (2.133 & 2.1349), will no longer process other instructions untill 2.1347. So, let's make this je from hiew adress 6E31 ->9090. Bingo! Working just fine! NAG is gone forever! Now, exactly like in tutorial 74, delete jqlreg.ini (from c:\windows) and rewrite with Windows Commander 4.03 the year of prg. subdirectory from 2000 to 2050, for no expiration until year 2050 (put any year you wish - 3000, for ex.). ---------------- Greets: tKC (my love too!), CIA, TNT, PC, CORE, all crackers, PRO or newbies, all cracker teams (keep going, we must eliberate from iudeo-masonic tirany, all must become free), we are great guys, and nice too. Love you all (but you must be a good soul!). Romanian Greets: Salutari tuturor crackerilor din Romania! Daca doriti cu adevarat schimbari in bine, luati ca optiune de vot si pe cei de la Romania Mare! Au aratat prin fapte ca sunt oameni iubitori si de omenie! O sa ne astepte si zile mai bune, ginditi optimist, Dumnezeu e aici cu noi! At last, but from all my heart: I love you Heavenly Father, I know you are with me all the time!!! God is love! Try this: www.geocities.com/john_aum Incredible infos for YOUR EYES ONLY!!! E-mail: johnny_aum@yahoo.com ---------------Sorry if my english is not perfect!------------------------------ -----cut here-------------------------------------------------------------------