Done, finished with the passwd thing. Did a small brute force.

Cool. The way I got past the password protection was to use Winrar on the file which seemed to completely ignore the password and extract all the files anyway. Don't know if this still works however.

What do i do next ???

BTW that method of using winrar doesnt work with the newer versions of Instalsheild.

any tuts here

Install the SDK and start unpacking using your favourite debugger and disassembler. I used Ollydbg / IDA, but you may have your own favourites.

Hi

Just lately putting more post's here than RCE for obvious reason!

The last version of this had a password, I don't suppose I should post it here but to give you a clue it has 8 characters and means something like "don't make any copies of this":cool:

/hobferret

Like Squidge Suggested earlier, use winrar toextract. This new version can be extracted using winzip v8.1:)

How?
 

Soft_ice, how did u do that in winzip 8.1? is there any tutorial about that?

just right click!

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Hey squidge, do u always take others for fools or is it just a symptom affecting you these days?

If anyone can help me extracting files from installshield (not those of crypkey) manually, if there is any tutorial about it, I'll be thankfull.

I know about thewd tool... it doesn't work

Ahemmm, is your brain functioning correctly or has it malfunctioned again?

Right click on the installshield exe like myself and Soft_Ice have already said, or do you need that explained to you in simpler terms?!

I tried that using winrar 3.2 and winzip 9 beta and it doesn't work, or am I talking chinese here? it doesn't work. have u really tried it yourself? I don't think so...

As for my brain, well replying to someone as stupid as u doesn't really need a brain it just need a bad tongue like yours which is not very hard to find...

I tried it with Winrar which worked fine, but as your too stupid to be able to read this entire thread before flaming me, your not going to realise that...

From this thread, it also looks like it worked for Soft_Ice...

I said before and I'm saying it again, I'm not referring to the crypkey installer u mentioned (though it wont work with that too, at least the one in exetools ftp, yes I know that the passwords are already there too), it seems that you're too stupid to see that...
here, see for urself:



What I'm asking for is a tutorial/tool to bypass installshield passwords, that's all...

Depending on the version of installshield, Winrar/Winzip will/won't work. Also, Thewd's password cracker sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Other times it's a simple matter of finding the correct crc (as most Installshield versions generate the crc of your password and if it matches, they continue. The crc is embedded into the file, so easy to get after 10-15 minutes.

Anyway, I'm not playing flame wars anymore (bored now), so unsubscribing from this thread.

Thank you for an informative reply.