what is the best way to crack s/w that acccess the web to check s/n?

yes the url is

h**p://www.numaxcreator.com/Uploads/NumaxCreator%20v7.x%20Setup.exe

thanks

p.s sorry about that JMI

[EDIT JMI: No big deal. Just trying to save some room in the database.]

"...it checks the s/n (which is diff on each p.c you install it on) via the web? can this be cracked or no?

I guess this is a kind of protection that we'll start to see more and more and it's obvious that nobody feels safe studying an app connected to the net. I am not sure but i remember that DAMN made some kind of "proxy"(?) to emulate some protection based on this...not sure.

yea i have tried a few diff ways to crack this so far no go but i'am still learning this stuff...i hope someone out there thinks of a way to get around this....

thanks

[MEPHiST0]

well, Load the EXE or DLL into IDA...

check out the imports.. usually imports are used to connect to the internet and check a sn :>
if not, then check out the exports, some other functions that the exe has..

id just disable the Net connect, and assemble the proper code for it to be registered.. :>

[dyn!o]

I have been watching this thread and wonder how you guys managed to understand the first post. I didn't. I downloaded this soft to watch "s/n (which is diff on each p.c you install it on) via the web".

It turned out to be a very simple protection which can be cracked with tens different solutions. It's really too simple to explain it here so let's go with the effect.

Copy this file to [WINDOWS]/SYSTEM32 directory.

Run the software. Does it show "VIP user"? Yes, so why aren't you "VIP" at ExeTools? Go and post something (just a little humour). Now you have unlocked software (by the way: GSM tools, like this, are often protected by some weird techiques).

If someone wants to work with this protection then try to reveal its FTP communication (it's not hard).

Regards.

wow well i'am not at home to test it...(i will test it later)
i know you said its to simple to explain here...however i would like you to explain it please..cuase i must of made something easy into something hard

thanks for checking it out


p.s sorry about the first post..i didn't explain it well i never thought of it using ftp server

[JMI]

There are generally (at least) two issues which may be important when considering software that connects to the author's website to confirm its validation.

First, if it is just a "confirmation" of a S/N, followed by a goodboy/bad cracker switch, you can often just "redirect" the URL it calls home to and activate the goodboy selection.

However, if it calls home and confirms your registration info before it sends you something (i.e., decrypt code) you need to make some vital part of the program actually work, you have a much more difficult problem.

Regards,