Phoenix87's Phoenix3
| Download Phoenix3.zip, 60 kb (password: crackmes.de) Browse contents of Phoenix3.zip A Name-Serial-Activation Crackme with up to 3 Easter Eggs. Read the Readme.txt file included in the crackme archive.
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Solutions
Solution by haggar, published 27. may, 2005; download (71 kb), password: crackmes.de or browse.
haggar has rated this crackme as quite nice.
Discussion and comments
| code_inside 24. May 2005 | This CrackMe occasionally crashes on my system :/ I'm running Win2K SP4. I haven't figured out exactly why this happens but i think because the CrackMe doesn't preserve certain registers in the window loop... It crashes in the About and Register window... Anyone else also experiences this? |
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| haggar 24. May 2005 | Don't know. On my xp pro sp1 it runs normaly without problems. Also I tried it on my systers old machine with win98 and there I didn't have problems too. Btw, author sad that we have make keygen for both .exe's, but both files are completley the same with same algo!?! What's point of sending two indentical files with different names? |
| Phoenix87 Author 24. May 2005 | Obviously the two .exe files use the same algo! About the crashes, i developed this crackme under WinXP SP1 and no crashes occurred during the execution or while debugging. I'm sorry for that, mate! :( |
| haggar 24. May 2005 | Hmm, but why sending two identical files :-0? But crackme was nice. Little confused me serial number algo, I thought that I had to brute it, but while eating my dinner idea/solution fall on my mind ;-) |
| code_inside 25. May 2005 | Hmm, very strange why it's crashing here... I will look more closely at it to find out why it crashes :) |
| code_inside 25. May 2005 | Yes, just like I thought. It crashes on my system (In both CrackMe's window cases) because the EBX register isn't restored... But why does this happen on my system only? :D |
| TQN 25. May 2005 | Hi Phoenix ! I found 3 EA. Text moving direction, transparent (region) window, and ball fall loop forever. Is it correct ? |
| Phoenix87 Author 26. May 2005 | yeah. that's right |
| Phoenix87 Author 31. May 2005 | Well, haggar's solution in quite good, but i'd like to mention that the exe files are identical in the algo, but different in one point. You have to find that point and understand what it is. In addition, there's a third easter egg which nobody described how to find it... P.S.: some functions may seem meaningless, but they have a proper feature. I thank you all if you can also describe their meaning. |
| TQN 05. Jun 2005 | The third easter egg is: Help menu - About - About Dialog showed - type via keyboard: phoe |
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