What tools for unpack this?

[Conquest]

Originally Posted by giv

Don't make any illusions. It will be years before you will know. Or you can learn mechanic from the tutorials whithout knowing in fact nothing. Is your choice.

Well after all these years i have come to realize the fact that once you know where to hit, reversing is so easy that people dont reveal things really via tuts(well not all but most) . A usual format of tut is -> you open olly, click this button (no explanation why), click that button, use this script , hit breakpoint 62 times(though usually there should be another easy way but they just love to freak you out) and done you are at break point.
I open another target, copy the instruction and "Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION"
The only way i could learn something was manually researching things on my own and dissecting at least 4~5 samples of certain protector.

[0xd0000]

Originally Posted by Conquest

Well after all these years i have come to realize the fact that once you know where to hit, reversing is so easy that people dont reveal things really via tuts(well not all but most) . A usual format of tut is -> you open olly, click this button (no explanation why), click that button, use this script , hit breakpoint 62 times(though usually there should be another easy way but they just love to freak you out) and done you are at break point.
I open another target, copy the instruction and "Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION"
The only way i could learn something was manually researching things on my own and dissecting at least 4~5 samples of certain protector.

I agree here - tuts are great for reference, but that's about where it stops. You need to spend hours upon hours of research, mainly trial and error from the ground up.

When friends ask where to start, I direct them to the basic's. For those that are visual, some would say a quick youtube of a winrar patch is all they need to get started. For others, a simple crackme from crackmes and a copy of Olly with a tut on searching through strings. - or something from here: http://thelegendofrandom.com/blog/sample-page

The amount of time that is required to ramp up on RE is fairly subjective, some argue a seasoned developer has the edge --I tend to agree here, though had some argue it's better to start fresh so there is no paradigm shift to overcome, I can somewhat understand this, but it's a hard case to make.

As far as a RE��s work—reminds me of a line from a book, except here the reference is to dev��s, but I think the underlying principle still applies.

"Their work is one percent inspiration, the rest sweat-drenched detective work; their products are never finished or perfect, just varying degrees of "less broken"��