The ACiD BuRN's FAQ
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This file has been written to avoid all mails about requesting
me to crack their lame ass applications and some 'not cracking at all'
questions...
Fortunately, there are some newbies who want to learn how to use sice and stuffs..



What is cracking ?
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Cracking is the manual deprotection of software, using tools such as
debugger , disassembler , hexeditors...
Cracking is done for knowledge purpose and not for collecting
the most possible 'pirated' stuff...
By the way, Cracking is nothing to do with hacking , Burning CD,
mail bombs , virus, torjans like netbus and lame ass shit like that...
And moreover , cracking *IS NOT* using already made cracks...
Using an already made crack won't make you a cracker


Frequently Asked Questions:

(could also be called: Fucking asked questions :p)


0)Does your nick 'ACiD BuRN' come from the movie 'hacker' ?!

ermmmm , i am getting pissed of that stupid question...
my nick ain't going from this lame movie, i hate it.
Though, i changed my nickname to "tHE ANALYST" not to be bothered by haxors wannabe.



1)Could you crack this program for me please ? it is very expensive BLABLA...


Fuck no! i won't even bother to reply to this kind of mail , and i will
delete it...
i don't crack on request.
Also, note that i do *NOT* crack for money, stop mailing me with such lame requests.
(e.g Crack this for me and i will send you Money !! <-- Fuck off )


2)I have read your tuts and i have a similar VB program , and i would like to
use it,but i can't crack it, have been trying to crack it for months now ,
but i keep failing... could you look it ? and send me the serial / keygen ? thx...

Read above.


I WILL DEFINITIVELY *NOT* CRACK ON REQUEST!


3)I have read your tutorial but cannot understand all, could you explain me
more ? and what is soft ice anyway ? is that an hexeditor ? thx..

Oh my god...
1st of all, before mailing me 'coz you don't understand something in my
tutorials, ask yourself :

- Do i know assembly well ?
if not, grab some docs and study.

- Do i know what's an API?
If not , grab the API reference and check it out.

- Do i know how to use my tools?
If not, learn how to use them.

Then , you might ask me courteously your question, explaining me where you are
lost and i will do my best to help you !
BTW, Soft ice is not a hexeditor! it is a debugger...


5)Man, i saw your tuts they are GREAT !!!! i am a newbie cracker and wanna learn
more ! could you be my mentor or my master plz ! i learn pretty fast ... blablabla


I ain't gonna be the mentor/master of anyone..
Keep reading docs, learn win32asm, and practice! You will become better this way ,eventually.

6)WOw, you seem g00d in cracking ! i wish to have you in my new cracking
group... No many releases yet , but we need good crackers like you! wanna join ?!


hah :)
i have been asked lotta times to join groups...
I don't belong to any group nowadays and i am happy with it.

Don't bother mailing me ;)


7)Can you help me to install/configure soft ice ?

Oh well.
Well installing soft ice is shit easy and i will writte a little on this here
so don't MAIL ME for such a question after..

After installing Soft ice ( i assume you know how to run a setup else stop cracking
and buy a Game boy instead heheh) you gotta reboot your computer...
Once Windows started again , press Ctrl+D and soft ice should pop up !
(if you are using win9x. On NT it depends of what you selected. you might
need to start it manually.) Let's assume softice is visible. You can close the window by pressing CTRL-D again, or F5.

Now , how to Configure Soft ice:

In the soft ice directory there is a file called Winice.dat you have to edit it!
For morons: use Notepad for example...
(IF you use Ntice, seek for this file on your hard drive.
Here the things you gotta change :

PHYSMB=512 <---- here comes how many RAM you have (e.g: 16, 32 , 64 ,128 or more... )

you can aslo edit you INIT line.this lines contains a series of commands which are
automatically executed when Winice loads...
ex:

INIT="LINES 90;WC35;set origin 10 10;WL;WR;WD 30;color 07 0B 71 04 02;CODE ON;X;"

Then you have to remove some ';' in front of some dll files to export the 'function'
in soft ice:


; ***** Examples of export symbols that can be included for Windows 95 *****
; Change the path to the appropriate drive and directory
;EXP=c:\windows\system\kernel32.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\user32.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\gdi32.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\comdlg32.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\shell32.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\advapi32.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\shell232.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\comctl32.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\crtdll.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\version.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\netlib32.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\msshrui.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\msnet32.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\mspwl32.dll
;EXP=c:\windows\system\mpr.dll

It becomes:

; ***** Examples of export symbols that can be included for Windows 95 *****
; Change the path to the appropriate drive and directory
EXP=c:\windows\system\kernel32.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\user32.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\gdi32.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\comdlg32.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\shell32.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\advapi32.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\shell232.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\comctl32.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\crtdll.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\version.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\netlib32.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\msshrui.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\msnet32.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\mspwl32.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\mpr.dll

It will be clever to add VB5 and 6 dll to allow you to set BPX on them
add this :

EXP=c:\windows\system\Msvbvm50.dll
EXP=c:\windows\system\Msvbvm60.dll

Okay good :) now Reboot a last time and soft ice is configured hehe :)
By the way, if you use winNT, besure to set the GOOD windows directory in this file


If its not working, read the fucking manual. 8)Why when an app crash my soft ice always pop up ?!! it is very anoying...
how to change this ?

You can disable SoftICE's error by typing FAULTS OFF in softice, and then pressing F5
or ctrl+D again to close the window.


*DO NOT* mail me questions about topics already discussed here..

Will be updated later.....

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