EX-Tools v1.5 ============= Cracked in less than 2 minutes by Bubba Hack! Date: 4th Feb 2002 WWW: www.download.com (in the Business/Spreadsheets section) -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o Hard-coded Serial: EXH-3104-1378 -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o Load up Excel and activate the add-in. Go into the Visual Basic Editor (ALT & F11) and either enter the VBA password you've extracted or just bypass it if you've patched your main VBA .DLL to allow you in. Find the form that deals with the registration code for this add-in and double-click on the Verify button to view the following source code. Private Sub cmdVerify_Click() If txtKey.Text = "EXH-3104-1378" Then SaveSetting "ExTools", "Startup", "User", "Default" cmdVerify.Enabled = False txtKey.Text = "-REGISTERED-" txtKey.Enabled = False blnRegistered = True MsgBox "Successful. Restart Excel for registration to take effect.", vbInformation Else txtKey.Text = "" MsgBox "Wrong key!", vbInformation End If End Sub -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o See how easy this one was !! Greets to: Zor, DoIt4Kicks, Puzzle, Raven, SDT2000 & Utils4Ever. Anti-greets: To any of the software authors/companies who take out their petty revenge on my website/notice-board/email hosting arrangements. Grow up and make some better protection! Cheerio Bubba Hack bubba_hack@mad.scientist.com -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o