i need help with cracking

[Fierce]

Hello,

i need help with a file and i am new to the scene.
i wont do it myself. this file is an exe-file of a telephone-book on cd...
when i specify my search to only one city i can see all the adresses of the people living in this city... and i want to export ALL ADRESSES of this city but can only export 75 adresses at once... too less, of course :)

so i need to crack the limitation of exportation... i have to unlimit it!
1 more problem perhaps: this file is german...

When i exported some people's adresses the program says:

"Es wurden 75 Datensätze exportiert"

Which means: "There were 75 adresses exported"


i already found 3 interesting string data references:

String Resource ID=00055 "Es wurden" <--- "There were"
String Resource ID=00056 " Datensätze exportiert!" <--- "adresses exportet"

but i cant find the limitation...

i hope, u understood my problem...

[kw]

Hello,

About the string references:
They are used to construct the sentence you see, it will probably do something like:
wsprintf("%s %i %s", firstPart, amount, secondPart);

Which still means you are on the right track. You should look where those sentences are being used (the ASM equivalent of something like I mentioned above will appear) and look above that, because it probably shows that message after its started its copy. Hopefully that'll give you a start on cracking this (note that 75 is 4B in hex, which you will be more likely to find in code).

Bitte sehr,
kw

[Fierce]

Thanks for the reply so far!
Danke, kw, nur leider bringt mir das nicht allzu viel ;)

I searched for these sentences several times and unlukily they r used approximamtely 12 times... and i dont know on which one i should have a closer look. and 4b is obvious but tooooo often. This exe file takes about 4mb...

Yesterday i read so many tutorials about cracking but i cant use the disassembler and the program (klicktel) at the same time so that i cant see where the program jumps to in a function...

edit: has anybody got a working version of softice for win2k ?

i guess i need some more help :)

[Devine9]

There's no warez requests on this board. My recommendation would be to find a winapi being used above this section in the code, and break on it in softice.. and go from there.

-DR

[Fierce]

i would do... if i were able to handle softice :)