Where do i end up after finishing with iczelion's tutorials, what else should i do in order to understand assembly even better. I am learning to reverse engineer and have already reversed like three applications that come with BOOKS, one among them is 8085 Simulator that allows u to code in assembly (hex mnemonics) and simulates ur PC as 8085 Microprocessor.

Regards ,

_InSaNe_

P.S. : i can prgram in c++(as good as advanced) and JAVA along with oracle, advance VB and beginner's VB DOT NET and i am not able to crack a single crackme available at crackmes.de

just dont give up, and learn x86 assembler well.

Then, take olly, free ida and start with the simplest level 1 crackme...

When you know assembler like (or better than) other languages, it will be much easier.

Hacker Disassembling Uncovered by K. Kaspersky may help you appreciate the relationship between high level and asm language.

Thx, i will look into both IDA and that Kaspersky's book, Appreciated.

Then why don't you start working on that first. Excellent material to practice on.

Also, start writing small Win32 apps in Asm to really get a good grasp of the language. Studying C/C++ compiler output is another option. Drop the VB, it won't be of much help in this area (unless you're trying to write a VB decompiler, which I assume is beyond your abilities at the moment.)

You may also want to try the lena's tutorials.

Thx again ya all for your sound suggestions.

@LLXX :I will work harder on crackmes and will inform ya when i am done with atleast one of them.

@OWL: k I looked for lena's tutorial and easily found them, and right now reading the first tutorial , title: cracking for newbies 01 .Thx for ur advice coz they are too illustrative, these tutorials can teach cracking to two year old kids too and i am finding them really helpful (Sorry for the cheek).

DANG people is it true that u cant crack that reverseme 2, and now lena is not going to write anymore tuts, coz she thinks she made a perfect non reversable application, and her faith is knocked off cracking. C'mon ppl i know it can be cracked , by the time i will be able to crack it may be it would be all late.

Any ways thx all agn for ur help, time now first tutorial by lena and once i am done with it, i will move to Iczelion's 8Th tut.

It is perfectly possible to make an uncrackable application distributed in crippleware form, even without using online/Internet validation. What's not possible, however, is to prevent a cracker using a legally registered version of the application as a blueprint to cracking its unregistered state.