Help with cracing Trymedia Activemark app

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ActiveMark is a weak protection. It detects most of the tools with a very primitive methods.

You cannot run SICE because AM searches for the following devices (and drivers) NTICE, SICE, SIWVID, FROGSICE, SUPERBPM. It was good but few years ago.

If I run with SoftIce loaded and protection on, program loads and silently terminates

Let me guess. You had SICE / FileMon / RegMon / LordPe or ImpRec running at the same time. Try to run it without any additional tools and it will work (with IceExt protection turned on).

Also think about breakpoints. AM detects them and will refuse to run if you set any (CC). Use hardware breakpoints since AM does not operate on debug registers.

Hope that helped. Good luck.