Explain what this path means:

"\\\\.\\NTICE"

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Fully routine to open the file:

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  • And where did you get this from? And there is no access to the sources? - Kromster
  • No, this is keygen - alex-rudenkiy
  • By the way, without this manipulation there is no key verification - alex-rudenkiy
  • Describe the situation normally pliz. For such scraps it is difficult to understand something. - Kromster
  • This is a check for the presence of a running SoftICE debugger. Here an attempt is made to open the file (device) "\\\\.\\NTICE" through CreateFile . If anything other than -1 ( INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE ) is returned, SoftICE is running. If the debugger is running, then your program is terminated. - Embedder

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This is a check for the presence of a running SoftICE debugger. Here an attempt is made to open the file (device) "\\.\NTICE" through CreateFile . If anything other than -1 ( INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE ) is returned, SoftICE is running. If the debugger is running, then your program is terminated.

    The path is written in C-notation, if you remove the escape slashes, it will remain \\.\NTICE and indicates the path to the NTICE device (see English documentation , Win32 Device Namespaces section).

    Most likely, this is a device that is created by a specific kernel debugger (such as SoftICE), and the code checks for the presence of such a debugger by the presence of this path.