Hiya - Nub just starting out - advice?

[Wirestealth]

Heya mates.

Just started gettting the 'bug' to learn reverse engineering. This was motivated by a particular target I have in mind I want to defeat.

I have just started grabbing tutorials, scripts, etc to this end.

The target contains ASProtect but, and as many other posters have complained about, I can't reliably identify the version.

Thus far my readings have shown that the following do a good job:
PEID Ver 0.95 - ASProtect 1.2x - 1.3x [Registered] -> Alexey Solodovnikov

PEID Ver 0.95 w/VerA plugin - Version: [ Unknown! ], Signature: [ A6C838AE ], E-Mail: [ [email protected] ]

Exeinfo Ver 0.0.26 - ASprotect ver 2.1 / 2.^ ( www.aspack.com/asprotect.htm )

Now I'm not really interested in taking the quick 'run this script in olly to unpack' approach as I really would like how to first do it manually.

My only concern is that if I don't know the exact version what would be the best approach from a tutoral standpoint? Do I just start at the ASPr 1.23 tutorial and work my way up to the current or does ASPr V2.x differ enough that it would be a waste of time to start at 1.23?

I appreciate your tolerance with this nub.

Best Regard, mates.