[JMI]

*RemedY*

Your problem with perceiving the reply as rude is based upon a common problem, evidenced by your post. YOU know what you have done/tried and what you want to find out, but you do not carefully consider, and therefore do not actually write enough information to explain what you had done which gets you to your current condition.

I ask you simply:

1) How would someone know that you actually had tried to solve your own problem by use of a debugger? What phrase in your first post did you intend to convey that information??? That is the specific reason my response states: "...you apparently have failed to actually investigate why the program may now be crashing and where. That is what a debugger is designed to help you do. Why not try it and see if you can determing what the problem might be." The word "apparently" refers to the fact that your post did not suggest any effort in that regard.

2) How was anyone to know that you had read more than the first "rude" response in the thread on the RCE Forum, when you made no reference as to having acquired the knowledge that ""hey mate, damaged stolen bytes doesn't really exist" when that very information is contained in that thread???

NO ONE asked you to be perfect or commented on your lack of perfection. Because you are impatient, you, and many others, fail to understand that "giving someone the answer" is not necessarily as important, or useful, as trying to "teach them how to think about their problem and try to solve it themselves."

There were two fundimental issues evidenced by your post. The first was you appeared not really to understand what the "stolen bytes" were and even with your last post, you do not indicate that you actually attempted to trace the operation of those "stolen bytes" you say you added, to see if the problem was coming from them. Had YOU done so, you would have known that the problem was, most probably, something else. At that point the whole issue of "damaged stolen bytes" would have been irrelivant, and YOU would have already known it.

This was the reason for the statement: "If you actually know about manual unpacking, you should know that an incorrect IAT reconstruction is generally the cause of the program failing to run if you have properly stripped the aspr shell and correctly re-adjusted the stolen bytes." Again I was reduced to guessing about your knowledge base and I gave you the best guess I could to solve your problem, based upon the very limited information you provided.

Let me simply repeat a part of a thread I posted on the RCE Forum which may make the purpose of the comments more clear to you:

"In short, think more carefully about what your setup is and about what you actually did and remember that WE WEREN'T WATCHING YOU DO IT and don't know your machine. Say what YOU DID like you wanted someone who WASN'T there to know EXACTLY how you set thing up and enough of the complete steps you followed to actually understand WHERE it started to go wrong."

How, or whether you decide to take or use free advise is up to you. It is an issue of your perception if you chose to interpret the advise as belittling, since that was never it's intent.

Regards,