From: D <noreply@mixmin.net>
Subject: Forte Agent 7.0 (2012, abandonware)
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Message-Id: <20240816.050113.eb418e33@mixmin.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 05:01:13 +0100
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Path: ...!news.nobody.at!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!alphared!sewer!news.dizum.net!not-for-mail
Organization: dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider
X-Abuse: abuse@dizum.com
Injection-Info: sewer.dizum.com - 2001::1/128
Bytes: 3726
Lines: 74


note: 40tude dialog is freeware and works great, so there is no need
      for this unregistered trialware (abandonware) agent newsreader;
      that said, some readers have expressed interest in forte agent

(using Tor Browser 13.5.2)
https://web.archive.org/web/20120607070458/forteinc.com/agent/index.php
>Free Trial
>Download Agent
>https://web.archive.org/web/20120607070458/http://forteinc.com/agent/download.php
>Agent Download Page
>Item                     Language  Type    Download Site   Links
>Agent 7.0 * Build 1200   English   32-bit  forteinc.com    HTTP
>https://web.archive.org/web/20130110185549/http://download.forteinc.com/pub/agent/english/agentenu700-1200.exe
(agentenu700-1200.exe / 9.41 MB)
>Download Agent and try it
>free for 30 days.
[end quote]

several contributors in archived newsgroup discussions claim that
this abandoned trialware program forte agent v7.0 can be "patched"
in order to make it fully-functional as if it had been registered
by using a hex editor to modify the executable agent.exe (12.4 MB)

using 40tude dialog . . .

news.blueworldhosting.com:119
alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent
(155,000 articles july 2003 - present)

>From: "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at>
>Subject: Re: Registration Patch for Agent v7.0
>Message-ID: <677c35f8735eac0162f85ffe0575c55c@remailer.privacy.at>
>Date: Wed,  5 Sep 2012 22:13:31 +0200 (CEST)
>Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent,alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified
>...
>At offset 0x002B8D0E change
>From:		0xC3CC55
>To:		0x0C01C3
>If you would rather locate what to change by searching
>Find:		0xE746008BE55DC3CC55
>Replace:	0xE746008BE55D0C01C3
>Start program and enter this for the registration key (other similar 
>strings will also work):
>11111111-11111111-11111111

>From: "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at>
>Subject: Re: Registration Patch for Agent v7.0
>Message-ID: <6e32962ac8b18207b70b1a3fec90d7de@remailer.privacy.at>
>Date: Sun,  9 Sep 2012 16:55:08 +0200 (CEST)
>Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent,alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified
>...
>> Sussed it. I was altering the wrong string. Thank you!!
>OBTW, if you would like to get rid of or change that
>User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.00.32.1200
>header, that can be removed entirely or replaced with something else. 
>Just ask for the hex edits and I'll post them.

>From: Nick Spalding <spalding@iol.ie>
>Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent,alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified
>Subject: Re: Registration Patch for Agent v7.0
>Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:22:57 +0100
>Message-ID: <4qcf48dag78b82l847o7483u68ae6c03r8@4ax.com>
>X-Trace: individual.net cbGpMieYK18FLubJeLeY8gt0E5LIPeeOTGtRJPVjODwSs55W6bB2dnFVTdZH+VgRQ=
>...
>Sizes according to Hex Workshop
>agentenu700-1200.exe:  9,875,256 Dec, 96af30 Hex
>agent.exe:            13,044,560 Dec, C70f20 Hex
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see also:
HxD - Freeware Hex Editor:
>https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
>https://mh-nexus.de/downloads/HxDSetup.zip