Having published my first book last October, I plead guilty to checking the stats on Amazon, perhaps a bit too often. The good in it is that it also gives me the opportunity to look for books that would be interesting for myself. This was when I came across the “Understanding and Using C Pointers: Core Techniques for Memory Management” by Richard M Reese. The first thought was “why would someone write an entire book on a thing like pointers?” But then, thinking to myself that books are not written for merely having been written, I took a glance at the free sample and took some time to read the comments.

However, the purpose of this article is not to discuss pros and cons of Themida or any other protector, nor do I have any intention to disgrace any of the software vendors. The purpose is to describe a relatively easy way of bypassing common anti debugging tricks (including Windows DRM protection) with DLL injection.