20 years..
 

Last i when i create some post i spot some comment under my profile: Join Date: Jul 2004 Holy shit! That's 20 years... That's a long time. What's changing? What were we doing 20 years ago?

Tell us how you feel about it yourself. Here are some my memories:

People were chasing IDA 4.5 :)
OllyDbg 1.10 start to be popular
Armadillo was rolling on
Using SoftICE on Windows XP (Compuware Driver Suite)

Tools that we use:

• UPX v1.21
• Armadillo v2.6
• PE Explorer 1.90
• W32Dasm Patch - Bratalarm
• OllyDbg 1.08 released
• Crypto Checker 1.0
• LordPE
• Hiew 6.83
• SafeDisc 2
• PEiD v0.9
• PeLock 1.06
• Stripper 2.07
• Aspr 1.2x
• Aspack 2.xx
• Get Type 2
• PESpin 0.7
• FSG v2.0
• PECompact 2.38
• yoda's Crypter 1.3
• dUP 1.06
• CFF Explorer: new PE Editor
• Total Commander 6.0
• UltraEdit 10
• Winrar 3.30
• WinHex 10
• Hex Workshop
• Trial Reset
• Resource Tuner 1.95
• Freepascal 2.0
• HWiNFO32 1.53
• FAR Manager 1.70

Oldies, goldies

How fast 20 years just passed!

I remember SoftICE, w32dasm and winhex, masm and tasm in the very first place!

Then ollydbg, IDA, and LordPE

We were solving crackmes from crackmes.de. I remember there was a guy named Code_Inside and I was trying to crack his crackmes.Wooohooo long long time ago...

I guess I can not be alone here, who does remember Fravia & +Orc like me?

probably more than you think ;)

I'm since 2005 here
and yes I also know those tools you named in #1
time has gone too quickly, but that's life

I remember the Fravia days well. Had some fun with steganography challenges. sonagets ;).

I also reached out and had interesting conversations with the author Dodi of VB Decompiler. He even privately sent me the source to the VB3 decompiler and his upcoming VB4 one. It was fun back in those days.

Yeah! 20 years passed by in a flash. The days of Fravia were the golden days.
No politics, no nothing those days.
Once you crossed the 100 posts mark, BAM! You just automatically got the VIP status in the forum, lol!

I really miss those days.

Later was this decompiler decompiled and source released. Also was rewritten to VB6 that still runs today. There was floating license with my name.

I believe it was 100 posts of substance according to JMI...
But yeah, I also miss those days. No politics. Just fun and sharing all the way.

Yes, I remember Fravia, and I even clone his home page as
an indispensable and immortal memorial.

Who remembers Fravia & +Orc will remember krobar's collection :rolleyes:

Also do you know that old exetools site dated to 2002 is still working? :)

do you know why does it say "THIS DOMAIN IS FOR SALE ON SEDO.COM" ?

Domain was on sale from a long time.
See this old thread: https://forum.exetools.com/showthread.php?t=19984

First it was on sale for $100,000. Then asking price was reduced to $65,000.
If traffic goes up then the domain price also goes up... If it goes down then the price also falls.
Essential to keep the traffic up to keep the domain price high...

yes and I really miss JMI and his statements...