I am new to the scene here and have completed only a few tut's using W32Dasm and more recently SI. One thing I have found about the SI tut's is that sometimes when the author includes snipets of the programs code it is totally different than what I ended up with. It doesn't happen all the time but it is a little disconcerning to be working a program out and then all of a sudden I'm totally lost because my screen shows something completely different than that of the author. Has anyone else come across this problem? I'm sure it's something I'm doing but I don't have a clue as to what it is. Any ideas?

Thx

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When working with Sice the program is "alive", i.e. the flow of the program may change based on the contents of some variables in memory. If your variables are for some reason different from the Tut's author, your program might have branched to some uncharted territory. Also you have to be very careful: the author may have stepped into a call (F8/) whilst you stepped over it (F10) and the picture you see is completely different.
Also sometimes the version of the program you downloaded may be different than the version the tut's author was using.
Moreover, tutorials are not professionally produced and edited to be 100% correct. The authors do their best to explain their steps but they may not remember the exact route they took in their cracking endeavors so you sometimes have to do some exploring on your on. Not to say, there are plenty of excellent tutorials that will take you by the hand into understanding the code and the reverse engineering universe. The trick is getting the best each one has to offer and not getting discouraged if a few do not seem to work as expected.