Here you have the second challenge, this is more complex and therefore the prize is an iPad with 3G and 64Gb, the most exensive one, just to compensate for the difficulty 
In order to solve it, you have to create one valid license key for the game.
The license key has to be sent to pandachallenge at pandasecurity dot com before next Monday at 17:00 (GMT+2). To avoid any problem with the mail filters, any attachment has to be compressed (zip or rar) with password (panda). Remember that there is no need to register, just download the file and enjoy!
The 1st one to send the correct solution will be the winner of the 64Gb 3G iPad. Good luck to all!
Note: this challenge is quite more complex than the previous one, so it may be difficult to get the solution in time. If we don’t receive any valid license, the winner will be the one who succeeds in unpacking completely and functionally the executable of the challenge. In this case you’ll have to explain how you’ve solved it.
The solution and winner will be announced next Tuesday.
Thought you should know, Norton Internet Security just detected this included with my second Panda Challenge download minutes ago:
9vj6yvbs.exe.part
(Bloodhound.W32.1)
I attempted a second download. First one was with Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8. Second download was with IE 8.
NIS says this is a Heuristic Virus.
Oh yes … and I can’t get to the file to begin attempting to solve the challenge.
Clearly it is a false positive of the heuristic engine of Norton.
False Positive Submissions have been made to Symantec.
I’ve been a Panda Security customer since approx 2005 – when Panda was the only provider of an antivirus program for Win NT 4.0 SP6 (which was going the way of the dinosaur). I had an HP Kayak workstation, however, that was doing realtime avionics simulation work and I needed to keep that machine running. Thanks to Panda, I kept that machine safely working another two years.
Since then, I’ve used PandaLabs ActiveScan 2.0 numerous times to run scans when it’s clear NIS, McAfee and other anti-malware programs, aren’t finding the malware I think is on one of our computers. These programs are loaded on separate computers (not on the same machine) so they’re not stomping on one another.
Might Panda reconsider how you begin your challenges? How could I have known your program might register a false positive with Norton Internet Security? It’s fine that Panda’s own programs ignore the Challenge, but hardly seems “fair” to those of us using other antivirus programs (some of us at home where we have say so in which programs we run – some of us at work where we likely have little or no say so about which anti-malware programs to use.)
I’ve Tweeted the quality of Panda’s products, recommended them via Facebook and personally suggested the use of Panda’s anti-malware programs to systems analysts and engineering friends and colleagues.
So, instead of downloading the Challenge at 1:07 AM MDT/ 9:07 in Bilbao. I have waited – and will continue to wait – until another company’s customer support techs work out the problem. I have to believe the same would have happened if I was downloading another company”s game while my Panda software showed False Positive reactions to the other company’s game.
I am more than just a little angry, and disappointed in Panda’s response to me. Surely, this could be done a little differently.
Hi Valerie,
I have sent the file to the antivirus companies that are having false positives. However, for me it is not possible to fix the other vendors’ false positives, we have to wait until they solve it. I’m not sure how Norton deals with this, but as far as it is a heuristic false positive it should give the option “ignore” or “exclude”.
Cheers,
Luis
your panda internet security deletes the file?
No, it doesn’t detect the file and does not delete it
the file is not even able to run (XP SP3) – is that expected or it’s a part of the challenge ? you mention ‘unpacking’, not ‘get running’.
r u by any chance running your winxp on vmware fusion(mac)?
if u r, update your vmware fusion and it’ll work.
it happened to me and i spent a day trying to fix pe header
(thought that was part of a question)
It should run, it runs in my XP SP3 at least. Is it running in some kind of VM?
no, even running straight from the explorer… weird…
to unpack it completely, also means creating valid keys for that. sight
i just able to decode other 2 sections.
I’ve construct several RC4 initial states which produce the same keystream but there is no efficient algorithm to find a corresponding 0×10 byte key.
What would you except ?
We can’t break RC4 with information given (or there is a lot of guessing)
Where are the results?
They’ll be online in a few hours.