Hoplelessly lost in code and softice.....can't successfully use a tutorial
to save my life...have more tuts than programs....books on assembly, visual 6.0, c++....win32 API....I WANT TO LEARN! WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? HELP!

(please no flames, I'm really a newbies newbie)

Read the art of assembly and the like... or maybe cracking/reversing isn't for you.

Just study your target. Dont give up..
Begin with something easy, like a easy ranked crackme.

And the most important, Never Panic.

hiya,
what is it, you are trying to do?. Can you be a bit more specific than saying learn to crack/reverse. What have you tried and failed miserably at and at what point did you decide you couldn't achieve what you are aiming for?.
Hey, sounds like I'm training to be a shrink, wasn't meant to come out like that.
regards

There are many around here that are against target specific tutorials......but I've suggested this one b4 & I'm sure I will many time to come.

Winzip (any version) is a great first program to try.

I have tutorials on 4 ways to crack it @ qferret.cjb.net.

Start with the easy methods & work your way up. It's a pretty simple protection and if you can negotiate your way through all 4 methods you will have a pretty good understanding of how it works, and how things should look in Softice.

Any questions, just ask.....the more specific your question is the more helpful my answers can be ;-)

Hello

May I suggest some very easy programs. These were programs I cracked the first time I looked at it. (Btw, this isn't to show off, coz I am a newbie too, but to indicate how easy they were).

Font Creator Program 3.0 - http://www.high-logic.com - Very easy serial fish.

MovGear 2.63 - http://www.gamani.com - very easy patch (use W32Dasm). My tutorial about its serial is here: http://worx.tmfweb.nl/GmgTutorial.txt

Tru View v.1.82 - http://members.home.com/beyeler/truview.html - Very easy serial fish (I believe it used lstrcmp)

WinHacker 95 v2.0 - http://www.winhacker.com - Very easy serial fish

ClipCache Plus v2.9 - http://www.xrayz.co.uk - very easy serial fish

Most of them (all of them except Gif Movie Gear are easy to find a serial for. So u have to use SoftIce.

Grtz

Argoth

Oh hi .

lol u seem to have the same prob like me. Perhaps your problem lies grounded therein that ure trying to learn TOO much at one time - thats at least my problem, i want to learn everything - c, asm, cracking, hacking, reversing and how to live my life... :> - finally i mostly end up doing NOTHING cauz i cannot learn all at the time. I guess its really a good idea to start with some CrackMes that are easy. When u just go and down some software and want to kill all its protections, you'll see that most of the time its not as easy as its described in most tutorials. I'll try it this way from now on. Perhaps it'll help you, too .

cya

Joda

I think you'd better start with fravia. I've began with this one. It helped me a lot. It wasn't that long ago, and now I'm fully in reversing, I mean reversemes and such like this. I haven't tried to learn asm at the same moment. I've first began to explore the most newbie tuts and then more and more advanced. Good luck to you!

Tryta, there's nothing wrong with your brain. Really. You probably trying to learn too much at
once that you lack sleep. Thus, changes your mood and thinking. When i first started reverse
engineer, i have no knowledge whatsoever! but i succeed nontheless. still to these day, i have
no book on cracking, except online materials. i don't have books the way you have them. what
you need is a relaxing mind. Take things step-by-step and jump when the condition is right.

my predictioin: you've come across too many hacking site, toooo many cracking site and many
people tell you different things that you have a hard time deciding. or, are you competiting with
someone?

Just remember the tree. The Exe. calls the Dll/api the api calls the driver/asm , get a book on the microprocessor that your using for the calls to it, and look at that hex code.. and check to see if the program is packed, you may have to unpack it to get started.