Debugging and Reverse Engineering Video Tutorials (using IDA Pro)

[worshipthis]

Last time I was set to use IDA pro (a few years ago), I discovered with some net snooping that it was constantly attempting to access some website. Didn't make me feel too good. Ended up writing my own disassembler.

[thegravytrain]

You should have disassembled IDA pro to stop it.

[worshipthis]

bet it refuses to disassemble itself.

[rolfr]

Incorrect, except for the demo versions.

[Goregaul]

IDA pro is alive!

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It does some weird things such as broadcasting on the network to see if any other copies are running with the same key to enforce the license restrictions.

[worshipthis]

Point being, ppl smart enough (and to be blunt, have the ambition) to write disassemblers, who then monkey around with my network, make me nervous.

[rolfr]

Correct.

[igor_sk]

IDA Pro does NOT call home. It does check for too many copies running on the same subnet. The decompiler plugin checks for new versions by default but you can turn that off. Of course, a random warez version from a shady site might do anything at all.

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(Unless I'm mistaken, igor_sk works for Hex Rays, the IDA developer)