Cracklock
Cracklock is a unique tool that protects you from a particularly vicious polymorphic virus affecting an ever-growing number of shareware programs. This virus, known as the "30th day virus", typically manifests itself 30 days after the installation of the infected software at which point it prevents it from running. Often a warning message accompanies this suspicious behaviour. Cracklock cures your programs using cutting-edge technology that are still unknown to other anti-virus vendors (McAfee, Norton, Sophos, Thunderbyte, F-Proot...).
Software developers have also used it to certify their applications for "Year 2000" compliance. Since then we've improved Cracklock and are proud to announce that it can also help certify your software against the Y10K bug (aka "bug of the year 10000"). Thanks to Cracklock those bugs have all become problems of the past.
Lastly Cracklock has a feature specifically designed to work around the "Microsoft Outlook timezone bug".
- Download Cracklock Latest version (1.27MB)
What's new
See the change log to see the list of recent changes. The following features were introduced since version 3.9:
- Cracklock can now be run from a flashdisk
- You can choose whether to store settings in the Windows Registry or in an INI file.
- Translation in the following languages: French, English, Spanish, Arabic, Serbo Croatian, Hungarian, Korean, German, Simplified chinese and Portuguese.
Frequently Asked Questions
A Cracklock FAQ is available here.
Google Groups
For discussions about Cracklock, visit the Cracklock group.
Documentation
The english documentation is available here. For other languages an older version of the documentation is available:
Contributing to the translation
The translation tool I once developed (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 some postprocessing every time a translator submitted translated strings.
Going forward, you can author new translations of Cracklock using any resource file editor available on the net.
I recommend Resource Hacker,
Resource Explorer, or Microsoft Visual Studio.
You can use those tools to edit any file under 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 | missing | Cracklock 3.8.2 beta |
| cklk381.zip | 17 September 1999 | missing | 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 |