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IntroductionWelcome! on this fine you have reached CrackZ's Reverse Engineering Page, still on the web despite many censorship attempts since 1998. Amongst my pages you will find what I believe is now a very rare commodity on the web, a site where information regarding the protection schemes of Window's software is disseminated for free and to all, take some time and look around. In the last few years commercial profit motives have transformed the nature of web information and searching forever, coves of free knowledge have been shunned in the stampede for 'e-commerce' gold. I'm fiercely against these trends, but I'm also realistic in that I know my site will make not one iota of difference. Upon my pages you will find many teachings that should enable you (with a little work) to reverse engineer most of the software you'll ever encounter. On my site you will find no dubious advertising banners, no irritating popups, no endless loops of smut site referrals and no top 100 this / that or other voting links, they couldn't pay me enough to promote their useless products anyway, my site aims to provide you with the basics to start reverse engineering, much of the material here is at a level where little more than a 'willingness to learn' is assumed, of course if you delve a little deeper you will find much more. |
| Visitors & Webmasters : Always bookmark my site when you find it and update your links! - Due to continuing DoS and other attacks from disgruntled members of the cracking / whatever_its_called_today community you might care to make a note of the direct links to my site : http://www.woodmann.com/crackz/index.html |
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 Anti-Debugging / Hacking Papers(useful for shareware authors) Dongle
Reverse Engineering(DESKey, Hardlock, HASP, Sentinel) FLEXlm
/ SentinelLMKey Generator Sources (includes cryptography) Miscellaneous
/ Newbies / Packers
(browse and learn) Time Trials
/ Tools(get equipped in 30 days) Whats
New / Visual Basic |
| If you are a new visitor, you might like to read my Getting Started Guide which may save you a considerable amount of time, if you are interested in reading a little about the history of my site, (including the many censorship attempts I have had to endure) as well as a few personal facts about me, then click here. You might also find my SoftICE Installation Guide and SoftICE Command Reference useful too. |
Legal NoticeAfter many legal problems, I am obliged to point out that this site is an information resource and a copyrighted original work by the author. Your acceptance of the terms of my disclaimer are expressly implied. Please understand here and now that there are definitely NOT any 'cracks' here, they aren't hard to find, go to your favourite search engine and type in 'warez' and you won't ever need to learn anything. I have never intended to collect law suits from annoyed software companies, sadly EmuLive Imaging Corporation didn't understand the real face of the 'warez scene' and proceeded to waste their money on expensive solicitors regardless. |
Message BoardsThe following Message Boards may be useful resources if you want to seek information from the RCE community, the quality of response can be quite variable. DataRescue's
Message Board :- Tips, tricks and fixes for IDA (the best
disassembler). |
Contacting Me (E-Mail / IRC) & SubmissionsI can be contacted by e-mail at CrackZ__(at)hotmail(point)com (note the 2 underscores) or now by ICQ (#131635002). I welcome any comments, key generator sources, information, scene news, Shania Twain concert tickets, suggestions & tutorial submissions (even the 404s which some day never I may fix :-) ). Before sending any e-mail, please take the time to read my FAQ, else I definitely won't answer. Please do NOT send me cracking requests or lists of software you want (even if you see them featured on my site), such requests will be deleted and ignored. When I have some free time I can often be found on IRC (nick CrackZ or ZEN-<some_suffix>), you could also visit #cracking4newbies on EFNet. |
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Erratum
FAQ Help I Need
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| No site would be complete without the obligatory list of phoney e-mail addresses which should (we hope) annoy the e-mail address gathering spiders. On your way out you may care to read my personal greetings and some of the very positive feedback I've received whilst running this site, you might also like to read one of my favourite poems Footprints which often provides me with the inspiration I need to continue. |