Another solution for Fake Serial Number

WindowsAddict / IDM-Activation-Script

An open source tool to activate and reset trial of Internet Download Manager

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Another solution for Fake Serial Number #19

Closed ghost closed 7 months ago

ghost commented 7 months ago

Greetings! Your solution for the fake serial number error is very clever, but I think I found the main error. The problem is that you always use the same product key when activating. For example, 3 days ago I created a product key using this script and replaced it with the product key in IAS.cmd. Although it's been 3 days and I've done hundreds of downloads, no popups have appeared. I'm not sure but the problem could be using the same product key all the time. A solution could be to add a unique product key generator to the script for each activation. By the way, thanks for creating this script!

WindowsAddict commented 7 months ago

Thanks, checking this,

showgood163 commented 7 months ago

I can confirm that with this version of IAS, the solution provided by @ugurkahriman is working.

https://github.com/WindowsAddict/IDM-Activation-Script/commit/08dbac006c437657ccdc968283ea952f00cd2d90

EDIT:

By working I mean the registration notification is gone.

Before trying the above method, I tried the latest version of IAS, freeze multiple times and it forces me to register.

After tring the above method, I download a lot of small files and see a notification which tells me 0 day before expiration. However, IDM does not stop working. Close notification window and restart IDM I do not see the registration notification.

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cyberboh commented 7 months ago

I can confirm that with this version of IAS, the solution provided by @ugurkahriman is working.

08dbac0

How did you do it? Kindly tell me

WindowsAddict commented 7 months ago

IAS_Test.zip IAS_Test_v2.zip

Implemented here, please test and share results.

Edit- Added v2, please test that.

cyberboh commented 7 months ago

IAS_Test.zip Implemented here, please test and share results.

Testing right now ...

cyberboh commented 7 months ago

IAS_Test.zip Implemented here, please test and share results.

Seems good, no nag fake serial screen appear so far

WindowsAddict commented 7 months ago

Try to trigger many downloads (small), like go to Reddit site, do Ctrl + A and right click and download all the selected links.

cyberboh commented 7 months ago

Try to trigger many downloads (small), like go to Reddit site, do Ctrl + A and right click and download all the selected links.

Bad news :(

Tried many times to download reddit page and ended with that

ghost commented 7 months ago

Try to trigger many downloads (small), like go to Reddit site, do Ctrl + A and right click and download all the selected links.

Bad news :(

Tried many times to download reddit page and ended with that

Can you reset IDM using the script and try again?

WindowsAddict commented 7 months ago

@cyberboh Added v2, https://github.com/WindowsAddict/IDM-Activation-Script/issues/19#issuecomment-1936992176 please test that.

Dusk-Golem commented 7 months ago

@cyberboh Added v2, #19 (comment) please test that.

Thanks for your efforts mate. Unfortunately the nag screen appeared again for V2. What is worst, the nag screen appeared when the script was running so i re-ran the script without resetting but no good. Guess freeze trial will be the way to go forward.

cyberboh commented 7 months ago

@cyberboh Added v2, #19 (comment) please test that.

Still have the fake serial nag screen

cyberboh commented 7 months ago

@WindowsAddict This is what i get as soon as after turning on my PC

ghost commented 7 months ago

It's really interesting. Today is day 4 and I haven't received any warning. P.S. I have hundreds of downloads but I am clearing my download history.

resim

WindowsAddict commented 7 months ago

I got the popup too, guess they finally patched this trick after many many years. Closing this thread here.