Maybe - but this method is worse than using the org DVD. ;)
Greetings, 007

any idea when there will be a working crack?

Unless they recently updated their protection schemes, Razor should be able to make a working crack.
Guess their Gothic crack was proof enough ;)
Dunno what Reloaded's part is in that story, but they also released some Tages cracks for recent games.

There is a Anno1701 ''protection remover'' available as torrent.
It contains an encrypted .bat script.

Anybody knows if this works ?

i would very much doubt it works, i'd also have a look at it before running it.. sounds a little 'suspicious'...be careful

Thats exactly what i ment.
An encrypted bat script is suspect.

Anone already tried this ?

you cant really encrypt a bat file that much, u sure its a real bat file and not an exe or something?

its a bat script, and yes theres an official way from microsoft to encrypt bat files,
protecting your source code.
Trust me, i'm a programmer ;-)

This could be to protect the crackers source code or to hide harmful code.

I just dont know -_-

im a programmer too, never came across a batch (.bat) file encryptor, sure i've seen .vbs encryptors, and so on.. never a bat one though.. i've seen bat2com (which converts a bat file into an executable com file), have you got a link on the official way from microsoft? (im curious now) :)

already searched for in the kb but didnt find it in 3 mins, so i left it -_-
( I hope i didnt confuse it with the vbs encryption :S )

but btt :

Anybody tested this "crack" already ?

i ve downloaded it, i opened the rar file and started the cracker.exe file but my "anti vir" software shows me a warning that this file contains an virus/trojan called "stealer.exe" ....dont know if it really is an virus but i didint tried it again so lets hope that there will be a crack soon... i have searched the net the whole day but i found nothing ....

edit: i have tested it......my pc crashed !!!

if you have had look in the i-net u would have found out that this is a worm...

p.s. when do u think will a crack be released?

actually im pretty sure you did, hence my asking :) vbs != bat

you ran it even after the warnings here, and the anti virus alerting you?...

it looks so