Forte Agent 7.0 (2012, abandonware)

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

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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)

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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