Serial numbers from the Internet

If you are looking for a serial number, you do not necessarily want to unblock a robbery. The scenario is well-known: You want to rebuild a used computer and reinstall Windows. Then all previously used programs are no longer on the PC. What to do if the old manual or the serial number is no longer found?


Serial numbers from the Internet


Actually, the software is then useless! Or you can go hunting for a serial number on the Internet. If you are looking for the right place, you will quickly find it. This is true not only for classics, but also for brand new versions. When browsing the network by serial number, one should be careful, otherwise it can quickly lead to bad surprises. Cyber ​​criminals often offer working solutions for serial numbers - but the whole thing is not zero.


The serial number is not enough


On such a website with such offers one quickly catches a virus or Trojans. In addition, the online robbers try to gain access to account and identities of the user. The search for a seemingly free serial number can in this case quickly become a horror scenario.


Software and games


Especially for old software one finds numerous databases with suitable serial numbers in the World Wide Web. Port number 1 is the website Serials.BE. There, anonymous providers collect serial numbers for all possible programs.


Cracked programs do not need a serial number


When browsing through the offer, the big names quickly fall into the eye: Microsoft, Adobe or Corel belong with it. With the help of the search function, the user can find the appropriate number to unblock software after just a few mouse clicks. Anyone who wants can make their serial numbers available to other users via Serials.BE and upload them to the server.


If the appropriate entry for a software key has been found, the input of a security code is necessary. Only then Serials.BE shows the serial number. On the Serials.BE website, there is also a search for torrent downloads and software cracks.


The transmission of serial numbers is of course illegal and damages the manufacturers. The lack of revenue from the sale of software makes the new development of the products more difficult. In the worst case, programs simply disappear from the market. To prevent such a situation, software companies are constantly developing new mechanisms to protect against robbery.


For current programs, entering a serial number is no longer sufficient for the installation. If a stolen number is used during installation, an error message will often appear on the screen. The programs check before the start, whether a serial number is already used and refuse in such a case the use. How this works is explained by a friendly hacker in his lab.


The simplest method of testing software for a correct serial number is to call home over the Internet. Since today almost every computer is online, a program can connect to a server of the manufacturer and check the numbers when starting.


For data protection reasons and because the user can easily get the internet connection, most manufacturers do not use this method anymore. The user has to activate or activate modern programs before use.


The activation of the software is now usually done via the Internet - for this purpose, the program is connected to a manufacturer server during installation and checks whether the serial number is correct. The best known example of the unblocking is Microsoft Windows.


After the test has been successfully passed, the software is activated for use. For the uninstallation a previous deactivation of the product is necessary - only then can the program be removed from the computer. If this procedure is forgotten, the serial number is blocked after the installation and the program can not be used.


A new installation is only possible with a little effort. Since many users do not want to activate the programs via Internet, manufacturers offer the activation by telephone. The user enters the serial number and receives a code from the installer. Then he calls the manufacturer service and sends the number to an employee. The program generates the release code with a program.


Games are harder to crack


This method is used by hackers: they investigate the protection mechanisms and try to find the release algorithm. If the hacker has cracked the protection, he writes a key generator to generate the appropriate numbers. In the lab, the hacker searches for a key generator before our eyes with Google - after a short time a Dutch page will appear, which offers generators for all possible programs.


Often, there are equal complete packages from robbery plus key generator. The archive is quickly downloaded and unpacked. Before use, we check the archive with an updated virus scanner. The hacker tells us that, according to his experience, up to 90 percent of the downloads of key generators or robbery files are infected with viruses.


The downloaded key generator is started by mouse click and the program's request code is entered and the number for the activation is generated. Then the hacker selects the option "Activation by telephone" in the installer and enters the generated code. A mouse click later, the software can be used.


But what happens if a key generator is not possible and the manufacturer is active on the Internet? The hacker confirms that solutions exist without serial number and release. Here the security mechanisms of the software were completely removed from the program and these programs were almost freeware.


This may be true in practice, but is illegal according to the current legal situation. Therefore, the loading and use of such manipulated software is punishable. The hacker opens a Warez search page and enters "Photoshop portable". After a short time you can find Torrent downloads that match the search term. The demand, whether the original program is, confirms the hacker. But he does not want to download the package as Torrent downloads can be tracked.


But there is remedy: The hacker simply opens YouTube and enters the search term. Shortly afterwards a demonstration of the portable photoshop flickers across the screen. If you look closely, you'll find instructions for downloading the cracks.


The times when a few discs with games in the schoolyard were exchanged, are long gone. In the meantime, installation and disconnection are handled over the Internet. The manufacturers defend themselves with increasingly sophisticated methods against the software pirates. This includes, in addition to the activation of the game, permanent Internet connection or the registration.


Systems like Steam or EA Origin offer online shops, where the gamer in a closed environment its games refers. The use of the Games is only possible within this environment and the resale is impossible. But now such environments are no longer safe. The hacker shows us a video tutorial on the Internet detailing how to bypass the security mechanism of Steam.


The whole thing in American and with links to the necessary tools. These videos are, of course, known to the manufacturers, and they put on new measures. One of them tells us the hacker: the games are installed on the hard drive, but load additional data to run the program from the Internet. There is a new safety check by the manufacturer. Cracked games usually do not exceed this process. After a stage of play is over.


In the meantime one is able to break such barriers in the copying underground. The reloaded data is intercepted and saved to the hard drive. Then, the robbery copy the games so that the reloading of a local disk works. The whole is however very time consuming and lasts several weeks or months. If you can wait so long, you will find many places where you can download such packages.


However, the free play pass is not without considerable danger. As with the software, the criminal elements try to provide the cracked games with malicious software. If you do not pay attention, you will soon be victims of data theft, identity fraud or bank fraud.


The hacker points out another problem: some manufacturers came 2011 to have the suspicion in the games sniffing software to have integrated. So they supposedly scanned the users' computers for possible robbery.


If such functions were overlooked during the assembly of the robbery, the game scans the computer in the background. In the worst case, the robbery is recognized as such and reported to the manufacturer via the Internet. The Internet address allows users to be tracked and used for the use of the robbery.


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