Eternal Bliss' VB Anti-CrackMe v1.0
Release date: 28th Jan 1999

Greetings to those that downloaded this Anti-CrackMe...

This is the first of my whole series of Anti-CrackMes to demonstrate how protection schemes can disable debuggers and disassemblers. At the same time, they are coded to let Newbies know how to handle them.

In this Anti-CrackMe, I used a very simple (lame?) method of protection that will only be able to keep Newbies out. It is nothing new but I haven't seen it coded in VB yet. Once you know how to configure Softice, this protection is nothing but but child's play. If you have configured Softice before, this might not work at all. To a certain extent, this might not even be viewed as a protection scheme (but if you stretch the meaning a bit longer, it might well be one). As for the calculation routine, it is a very simple one but requires the use of Softice. 8P

I know that writing programs in VB has been scorned upon by many programmers but since such programs have been on the rise, I don't see the reason not to thoroughly understand the limit to which VB programs can be protected against Crackers.


If you come across any problems or are not sure how to overcome the protection or bug reports, please email me at Eternal_Bliss@hotmail.com
I might be able to help although sometimes, I cannot even break my own protection... 8P

If you happen to get this Anti-CrackMe from elsewhere other than my website, do visit
http://crackmes.cjb.net for more CrackMe(s).

Enjoy!
Hope you learn something out of it...