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Originally Posted by JMI

And I don't believe anyone can truely be "taught" reversing. They can be helped along the way, but it is a skill set which needs to be "learned" by doing the work, reaching an impass, reading more and/or asking a few questions and trying again. One can always impliment solutions others have provided to a particular problem, but there is no true "learning" without understanding what one has just done and why those particular steps worked in the particular circumstance.

Hi,
I learnt that rule the hard way . I don't know how many tutorials I read . But all of them say something like... Press F7 or something until you reach so and so code and voila you find the reg code in foobar register. . Thats when I became determined to learn win32asm and UNDERSTAND what is going on. I nowadays understand most of what I am tracing through. But in the realm of packers and protectors I usually lose track of what is going on in the sh*tload of Exceptions, junk code etc. To be honest,I have NEVER understood what has happened in the unpacking code of any packer I have unpacked except for the PUSHAD,POPAD and the final JMP or RETN or CALL to the OEP. Maybe this is why I find it difficult to understand simple topics like Unpacking SoftWrap. . I don't know why but in Win98SE I am using, Olly always dies of an Exception when I press Run before reaching any of the part mentioned in the tutorial : . confused: I guess I will have to use XP or 2k

Thomas