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Welcome to my reverse engineering page, on the web since 1998 and an official member of the Reverse Engineering Webring (see the banner below) . If you are thinking of learning how to reverse engineer your own or others software then my site may well be for you :-), I hope you will find your stay here both prosperous and educational (of course I'd like you to become a regular visitor as many others do). Upon my site you will find many tutorials and teachings that will enable you to crack most of the software you'll find on this huge web of ours, from dongles to coding your own key generators, my site will get you up and running in a few hours, the rest is up to you.
Please note, there are definitely NOT any cracks here, you may have to search elsewhere as I don't wish to receive law suits from annoyed software companies or damage the interests of worthy software authors. Sadly my dear friends at EmuLive Imaging Corporation didn't understand this and proceeded to waste their money on expensive solicitors anyhow. Before reading any of the tutorials please familiarise yourself with and accept the terms of the disclaimer. As site-busting by the SPA of real knowledge sites is common I feel everyone should also read the legal page.
No site would be complete without celebrity endorsement and I am delighted that the artist, (formerly known as Eileen Edwards) was recently able to take time off from filming her latest video to do the honours. After reading my feedback page Shania's agent was keen to point out that her next single would be dedicated to reversers around the world.
You may like to also read a little about my site and understand why I publish. In common with most reverse engineering site webmasters I too detest the almost unstoppable trend of web commercialisation (banners, porn, spam, sponsors ad nauseam). Hence this annoying page designed to frustrate the e-mail address collectors.
You may like to e-mail me, I welcome any comments, suggestions, tutorial submissions or key generator sources :-
CrackZ__@hotmail.com - CrackZ__(at)hotmail(point)com (2 underscores).
I do try to reply as promptly as I can, but please read either the very brief tutorial submission guide or the FAQ (hey! it might answer your questions). If you want to send me just general feedback, information, bad url's (I will fix them) or your new webpage url then please use the form below.
** IMPORTANT (30/09/99) ** : All e-mail correspondents please take note that I read my e-mail only on a weekly basis usually on Fridays at 22:00hrs GMT, therefore if you send an e-mail on a weekend you will almost certainly wait at least 5 days for a response.
Your E-mail: Your URL: Comments / Feedback: * This form is NOT to be used to send me crack requests, said requests are instantly deleted, so don't waste your time or mine, also its a really good idea to write something in the Comments section before you click Submit.
Judging from repeated e-mails I keep receiving it would appear that many visitors still don't or won't understand my request policy, therefore this space will be used to clarify it yet again. I will NOT accept ANY "1-line e-mail requests" for cracks / keygens / serials / warez or anything even closely related too these areas. ALL these requests are immediately deleted, you are blatently wasting your own time asking. I'm also sorry to say that I probably won't answer any other problems you might be having, although a certain amount of discretion is applied to every e-mail.
Fravia's Message Board - General reversing issues/matters. Fravia's Tools of our Trade - IDA/SoftICE and more.
If you are serious about acquiring my services you may send an e-mail in complete confidence. Matters will then be discussed in the strictest confidence, read my selective services page here so you understand what I can or will do for you. Only genuine persons need apply.
Webmasters please link to either of the following url's:-
http://zencrack.cjb.net - relocator. http://www.wco.com/~micuan - the real site.
When I have some free time I do indulge in some gentle pleasantry exchange on IRC (nick CrackZ or ZEN-<suffix>), I'm often to be found in #cracking4newbies on EFNet, you can of course also find a lot of +crackers here as well as a plethora of other experts. However, idling in public channels guarantees a steady stream of willing idiots, for the definitive page dedicated to these lamer logs be sure to visit Carpathia's aptly named site at http://lamerlogs.cjb.net.
.....& Finally, for those of you who may need to send me a secure mailing, forget it!, I'm through trying to work out how to use PGP, let alone decoding messages :-), and the real finally now, all of my HTML is written using Norton Commander for DOS (a rich mans edit.com from 1989, although I confess to switching to Adobe PageMill recently). I personally check that my pages look OK under MSIE 5 (I'm not hostile yet!) & Netscape 4.62, (if you see any errors please let me know). Of course you could use Opera.