DISCLAIMER: Please note that this is for educational purposes only. It will teach someone how to remove protections from programs, but not encourage it for illegal purposes. The idea, in the guide is to show how people add protections onto software, and how you can use your skills as a computer expert to undo those protections etc..
Introduction
Welcome, this is the first in my installation of guides aimed at the ‘newbies’. This though is different to all the other guides. Here is why.
This guide is aimed at the very begginer in cracking… it contains picutes, much like a book when you were a kid. This is to make things more easier to understand and it really didn’t take that long to do… (honestly). I could have written this in 5 lines, but as I said this is for the newbie.
Please tell me if you want picutures or not..This is a new idea, and I am seeing if it helps or not. Remember this is for the NEWBIE.
What I know :-
1) Very basic knowledge of ASM
I know what POP does, what PUSH does, a vague knowledge of what the registers do etc… I have a rough understanding of what is happening.
2) Mediocre Knowledge of SOFTICE
I know how to make breakpoints on certain windows functions, and I know basically all you really need to know to get by and follow the tutorials of try some basic cracking.
3) Mediocre Knowledge of W32Dasm
I know how to search for a string, and what it means once I have found it.
4) Basic Knowledge of Turbo Pascal
I know enought to understand how the key generators work, and therefore enought to make one myself. Also, I know how to make patchers.
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I hope that you should know the above, and probably more. Once again this is aimed at the newbie, and I class myself as a newbie. This tutorial is an experiment, so don’t come shouting at me, that I am teaching you wrong tricks. If the protection has been cracked, then I don’t see the problem. If I have mentioned something wrong, then please contact me at mrnick99@hotmail.com and I will bring it around in the next tutorial session.
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What you need :-
1) Soft-Ice
2) W32Dasm 8.x
3) Hexedit / Psedit
All of the above are available from http://cracking.home.ml.org
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WEEK 1 : WINX-FILES v2.8
NOTE: THIS HAS BEEN COVERED IN A PREVIOUS TUTORIAL. I DIDN’T REALISE UNTIL
WRITING THIS ONE. THIS IS ANOTHER WAY, SOMEWHAT EASIER WAY OF CRACKING IT. (REF: PC’98 Tutorial 
You can download this program from the following address :
http://www.pepsoft.com/wxf32_28.zip
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INTRO
In this lesson, we are going to crack this program so you can enter any name and any code to go with it.
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Step By Step
1) Win X-Files , the protection.
Load up Win X-Files (WXF) and notice that the product has *UNREGISTERED* all over it.
