Cracking for Newbies - by Dahood Target: Acoustica MP3 Audio Mixer v.2.13 Tools used: W32dasm Hview Protection:Serial (takes anything u put) NOTE: This tutorial is not totally for newbies so i excpect that u know 1.how to use w32dasm 2.how to use hview (change,search,etc...) 3.Assembly Disassemble the program U cant find any good strings Right.. Yeah well look again look for anything with the word Register.... u probably found :0042398E 85D2 test edx, edx :00423990 7544 jne 004239D6***** :00423992 8B453C mov eax, dword ptr [ebp+3C] :00423995 BE01000000 mov esi, 00000001 :0042399A 3BC8 cmp ecx, eax :0042399C 743A je 004239D8 :0042399E 894D3C mov dword ptr [ebp+3C], ecx :004239A1 8BCD mov ecx, ebp :004239A3 E8F8FCFFFF call 004236A0 :004239A8 6A00 push 00000000 * Possible StringData Ref from Data Obj ->"IDS_YOU_REGISTERED" | :004239AA 6828664400 push 00446628 :004239AF E89CA70000 call 0042E150 :004239B4 A1749C4400 mov eax, dword ptr [00449C74] :004239B9 83C408 add esp, 00000008 :004239BC 6A00 push 00000000 :004239BE 6A00 push 00000000 Yep .. u figured it out :00423990 7544 jne 004239D6 should be :00423990 7544 je 004239D6 change it in ur hexeditor and try to register i hope i didnt confuse u and if u have any question, comments my icq# is 69518421 or u can e mail me at webcrawler28@hotmail.com i would like to say thanks to all the crackers 2 many 2 list , for helpin me also for there tutorials also a big thanks to krobar's site: http://zor.org/krobar/ Cracking for Newbies - by Dahood je 004A75C2