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Originally Posted by TippeX View Post
as for dealing with a virtual machine since the beginning, to anyone who is skilled enough to crack the protections, it is pretty easy to determine what is x86 code and what isn't so yes, spotting vmusage to a trained eye is not hard.
You mean a sequence of valid x86 code - mostly ending in a CALL, RET or similar - and some obvious garbage behind it? Non-fully cleaned SecuROM code also contains intentional garbage, with lots of jumps around, to make disassembly and plain visual understanding of the code harder.
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