ASPR not full tut

Manko, I do trust you! But, I don't think this program is so simple... I have seen exceptions in AsProtected programs before that are simply testing to see if certain APIs (usually emulated kernel32 functions) are writeable, and those are easy to get around. Indeed, there is one of those in this application (and that is what you saw in your asprdebugger). But, there is more here than just that. I have done all the usual things, but it still doesn't work.

Debugging packed program, you see internal exception 0EEDFADE raised four times total, two before messagebox displaying remaining number of trial days, two after the messagebox. Debugging unpacked program, you see the exception SIX times total, three before messagebox code (messagebox no longer pops up for some reason), three after messagebox code. So it seems there was some other SEH in place here, so that the exception was only raised 4 times instead of 6 in the packed code...

What happens is, when you run the program (while packed), you see the application in the taskbar for 3 or so seconds, then after those 3 seconds, the program's form pops up. When unpacked, you still see the application in the taskbar for those three seconds, but once the three seconds have elapsed, instead of the form popping up, the application just closes. It looks like the program (which appears to be written in C++ Builder) terminates early from some loop in TApplication->Run, maybe a message handling loop?.