New here. Need advice.

[iri6]

I am new in reverse engineering(the act of reversing).
And yes, i am a noob in assembly(i've seen assembly, but don't know any).

But yeah i want to crack stuff. But my first trials always end in failures.

When i open a program, it crashes cause it detects Olly even when i have a dozen of plugins to hide it. Or when the EXE is packed/self-extracting.

Or when a program needs patching in a DLL so you can remove the protection(how do you do that?).

Any guides for that?

[kao]

Lena151's Reversing for Newbies is the best place to start. Watch the tutorials, follow the guides and in few days you'll have learned the basic skills.

[iri6]

They are indeed good tuts which i am in the process of watching/reading :)

But even so, i've met some apps that are "self-extracting" or have they're PE packed which i don't know how to unpack etc.

[kao]

Basic unpacking is covered somewhere around lesson 20-30, if I remember correctly. It's quite a challenging task, take your time and learn basics first.. :)