Battlefield 3’s beta made its debut launch this week. Great little game that shows promise. I, being the curious type wanted to peek at some of the extras it came bundled with. One of the extras was this mumble / teamspeak knockoff program called Sonar. While single stepping though in WinDBG (giving immunity a break) […]
From time to time, I encounter….weird forms of software protection. Stuff most other reverse engineers have probably never seen. Take this example. I was trying to track down a string in a binary, but couldn’t find it through conventional means, so I opened the program up with a resource editor. Then i stumble upon this […]
For most windows users, this is as simple as control alt delete, or failing that, TASK.exe from the command prompt. nut how do you do it programmatically(it is so a word)? There are a few ways, but I like to use one particular library for its small size and speed. Procs.dll. The contents ofthe […]
Aren’t those tunes awesome? midi tracks of the 80’s packaged with a little app and shouts to people you’ve never heard of? I’m talking about keygens. And I want to go over how they’re made. This is going to be a multi-parter. This first section is going to go over the very basics. For […]