CRACKING
                                                                           
            
           Cracks was what got me into the hpvcaw scene. Cracks, if you don't already know, are a
           patch that modifies a program to override the protection. They can take out things like a 30
           trial so that the program keeps working after 30 days. They can take out all the annoying
           things that bother you until you register. They can also take out things like CD checks so that
           you don't have to have the CD to play your game or whatever. 

           There are also key generators. These are the best kind of crack in my opinion. Key
           generators are not really a patch, or for that matter what I call a crack. They simply generate
           you a serial number or whatever you need to register a program just as if you bought it. This
           is the safest type of crack in my opinion because if you get a update for the program later
           then it will most likely work. 

           The software companies hate cracks and crack sites more than warez. Cracks are usually
           very small, 1-20k. You dowload say Win Zip 7.0 from the winzip site then you download a
           little key gen and presto you have the real, full version copy that will never expire. 

           Cracking is not something that a newbie can just go off and do. I have went though some
           tutorials myself and managed to learn quite a bit. It is not too hard for an experienced
           computer user to take SoftIce and crack a program that does not have too complicated of a
           protection sceme. SoftICE is a debugger, it lets you do almost anything with a program,
           watch what it is doing, step through the program and see where the protection is, then you
           can take it out. 

           Most people could care less about cracking program theirselves they just want to download
           the cracks and patch whatever it is that is bothering them. Well here is where I get cracks at
           when I need them 

           Where to get cracks 

                #cracks on EFnet. You need an IRC program to go here. (best place) 






           How to crack links 

                fravia's pages of reverse engineering - nice





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