Hello and welcome.
In this new session, we are going to start using some knowledge we have gained in our practicals.
So we are going to try to crack the crackme as a learning experience to apply all the knowledge that
we have acquired, and we need some additional tools for that.
So we need to install a program called Detect It Easy, which is available from here, this website here.
So head over to this website and download this,
or you can use the version that I've already downloaded, and I've put it in the resource section for
you to download and install.
So once you have downloaded it, you go to your downloads folder, and you should be able to see the program
in your downloads folder.
You just need to unzip it to get the program,
this program here.
Then it's a standalone portable, so you can put it anywhere you want,
and you can create a shortcut on the desktop if you want.
So maybe you can copy this program and put it in your project folder, in your Program Files folder over
here.
And then go inside the program and create a shortcut on your desktop, so you can right-click this one
and put it here.
Create shortcut here.
So anytime you want to run it, you just go to your desktop and double-click, and it will run.
So this is the program that we are going to use, the additional program that we are going to use for
doing the practicals on crackmes.
Another thing I'd like to remind you is that we are going to use a virtual machine for all the practicals.
So as I've already taught you in the outset of this course, you should install virtual machines running
with your Windows 10 or Windows 11, and then do all your practicals inside the virtual machine.
And the first thing you must do is to always make sure that you make a backup, a snapshot of all your
virtual machines just before you start any project.
That means if you have installed a virtual machine here, make sure before you start any project, make
sure you click Take and then create a snapshot and save it.
And after you have saved the snapshot and you go ahead and do your project, do your crackme or whatever you want,
and then when you finish with the crackme, always come back and restore.
Restore.
That means you go back to the snapshot that you created, and then you click Restore
right there.
Then you will restore whatever it was in after the crackme has run.
Now, this is important because you want to make sure that any changes made by the crackme is undone.
Sometimes you are afraid that a crackme might be malicious,
so you want to undo any changes made by the crackme.
All the crackmes that are used in this course are safe, so this is harmless.
It's just that for those who want peace of mind, then make sure you use the restore method to
undo any changes made by the crackme.
So that's all I want to remind you.
Thank you for watching.