Cracklock
Cracklock is the leader in the hard task of repairing a bug present in a growing number of sharewares and exploited by a polymorph virus known as the "30th day" virus. As its name implies, the virus manifests itself only once you have run the infected software for a certain period of time; usually 30 days suffice to trigger it. To protect these buggy sharewares from this virus, Cracklock uses techniques that other anti-virus vendors such as McAfee, Norton, Sophos, Thunderbyte and F-Proot seem to ignore.
Also, many developers have used Cracklock in the past to test their software for Y2K compliance. Recently, we have worked hard adapting Cracklock to the well kwown Y10K bug (aka "bug of the year 10000") so that developer can use Cracklock to check that their programs are protected against this ever-threatening bug.
New: Cracklock now has a new feature which solves the "Microsoft Outlook timezone bug"!
Frequently Asked Questions
A Cracklock FAQ is available here.
What's new
The complete changelog is available here.
The following features have been introduced since version 3.9:
- Cracklock can now be run from a flashdisk
- It is possible to choose whether to store informations in the Windows Registry or in an INI file.
- Cracklock still (partial translation) of the following languages: french, english, spanish, arabic, serbo croatian, hungarian, korean, german, simplified chinese and portuguese.
Documentation
The english documentation is available here. Old version of the documentation is also available in various languages: English, Spanish, French and Arabic.
Contributing to the translation
The translation tool I once developped (RLGui) is now deprecated. Although it had nice features (for instance it can automatically reuse strings translated for version n of a program to generate translation for version n+1), it required me to do some postprocessing after each translator had finished his job.
From now on, if you want to make a new translation of Cracklock, use any resource editor available on the net (Resource Hacker, Resource Explorer or Microsoft Visual Studio) and edit one of the file in the 'Language' subdirectory of Cracklock (e.g. CLRESUS.DLL for the english version) then save it under another name (e.g. CLRESGE.DLL for german) in the same directory. After restarting Cracklock Manager, the newly created language will appear under the Language menu.
Previous versions
| Filename | Date | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cracklock.3.9.44.exe | 16 March 2008 | 1 MB | Cracklock 3.9.44 |
| Cracklock.3.9.42.exe | 11 March 2008 | 1 MB | Cracklock 3.9.42 |
| Cracklock.3.9.37.exe | 09 March 2008 | 1 MB | Cracklock 3.9.37 |
| Cracklock.3.8.27.exe | 01 December 2007 | 822 kB | Cracklock 3.8.27 |
| Cracklock.3.8.26.exe | 16 September 2007 | 822 kB | Cracklock 3.8.26 |
| Cracklock.3.8.20.exe | 11 September 2007 | 822 kB | Cracklock 3.8.20 |
| Cracklock.3.8.13.exe | 8 August 2007 | 803 kB | Cracklock 3.8.13 |
| cklk389.exe | 2 August 2007 | 776 kB | Cracklock 3.8.9 |
| cklk388.exe | 7 November 2005 | 740 kB | Cracklock 3.8.8 |
| cklk387.zip | 16 September 2005 | 723 kB | Cracklock 3.8.7 |
| cklk386.zip | 18 July 2005 | 723 kB | Cracklock 3.8.6 |
| cklk385.zip | 8 May 2005 | 690 kB | Cracklock 3.8.5 |
| cklk384.zip | 2 August 2001 | 627 kB | Cracklock 3.8.4 |
| cklk383.zip | 11 June 2001 | 357 kB | Cracklock 3.8.3 Use this version if you are running Windows 95 without the Unicode service pack. |
| cklk382b.zip | 20 January 2001 | Cracklock 3.8.2 beta | |
| cklk381.zip | 17 September 1999 | Cracklock 3.8.1 | |
| cklk37_help.zip cklk371.zip | 5 August 1999 | 157 kB | Cracklock 3.7.1 |
| ck36sp.zip | 9 April 1999 | 124 kB | Spanish resources for Cracklock 3.6 |
| ck36us.zip | 10 April 1999 | 123 kB | English resources for Cracklock 3.6 |
| cklk36_help.zip cklk36.zip | 3 January 1999 | 159 kB | Cracklock 3.6 |
| cklk35_help.zip cklk35.zip | 25 December 1998 | 59 kB | Cracklock 3.5 |
| cklk30_help.zip cklk30.zip | 9 August 1998 | 31 kB | Cracklock 3.0 |
| cklk23.zip | 18 June 1998 | 89 kB | Cracklock 2.3 |
| cklock11.zip | 11 June 1998 | 49 kB | Cracklock 1.1, the first released version of Cracklock. |






