Lord Soth
Tools of the trade
Mon Dec 7 10:03:35 1998


Hi all, I just wanted to post something I think can help all of you.
Reading the other people's answers I saw some1 said that the most commonly used tools in this forum, and in general, are Regmon, Filemon, W32Dasm, and of course the all mighty and most important 1, WinIce.
I agree totally, but I'd like to add 1 tool to this honor list.
Altho with W32Dasm u disassemble the code and get String data refs and all that, it does'nt show everything, at least not in a way we can always understand.
Here's what I mean.
Suppose you are looking for a dialoge box or some kind of call to a Windows API, I could'nt figure out those from the dead listing W32Dasm generated. So, while this tool is great, I use another tool.
This 1 also does a TurboDumping, and gives you info on Strings, Dialogues , all resources basically.
It also gives u info on ALL API imports and exports, and even lets u disassemble them if u wanna.
The program's name is PE Browse. Some probly heard about it.
I use this program to search for important strings, dialogs (as in the case of a hidden 1), and API calls, such as GetLocalTime, or GetWindowText, and all those things..
This could really help narrow down the possibilities.
Just something to look into.
:)

Lord Soth