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Hacker Disassembling Uncovered
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Rating: 4.67/5 from 12 reviews Needs a revision--a little out of dateJust use itFirst the good news: Very few books give a total picture of assembler code. Usually they are text books, but this is a real hands on book to learn lot of assembler structures. How does a programs laid out(executible file format), what library functions get statically linked, and how they are resolved, how does relocation works, how does loader loads etc., etc. You would find a long lasting knowledge from this book. IF YOU ARE A SYSTEM AND/OR KERNEL MODE PROGRAMMER, IT IS A MUST. But need to go thru the exercises... Bad news is that it seems like the examples are not tried out with MS visual studio 6.0. You will find the code generation is different, due to some inline library code (ie, strcmp() and others). It does have other mistakes in the programming, as well as in the text. Stack based code execution at the end of the book does not seem to do its job. But still it is an excellent book to read and go thru those examples to become fairly fluent with large assembler codes, and their working. WHEN THE INFORMATION BASE IS HUGE, LOOK FOR STRUCTURE, AVOID THE DETAIL UNTIL NEEDED, this is precisely this book follows. Nothing could be worse than ignorance, so go grab one !!! Great book!!there are a lot of awesome hacks in this book. there is a of great code. I highly recommend this book. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The first three sections of this book were great. However, I had a no luck getting SoftICE to run correctly on Windows XP. I browsed some online forums and noticed other people with the same problem. Since it appeared that the vast majority of the rest of the book relied on the use of SoftICE, I put the book down and never returned.
It was also a pain getting some of these old hacker utilities the author used. I didn't even manage to get them all. Author, please put them online or give us a clue!
Also, some brief examples of some Linux application alternatives would have been appreciated.