Ok so I've recently started doing some reverse engineering, and I keep coming across a term (I think) I have no idea what it means? A badboy?
00013F92 7E 24 JLE SHORT function.00013FB8 ; badboy
Could anyone explain?
Maybe this is the answer:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/30815/An-Anti-Reverse-Engineering-Guide
Search for "badboy".
There are three types of breakpoints available to a reverse engineer: hardware, memory, and INT 3h breakpoints. Breakpoints are essential to a reverse engineer, and without them, live analysis of a module does him or her little good. Breakpoints allow for the stopping of execution of a program at any point where one is placed. By utilizing this, reverse engineers can put breakpoints in areas like Windows APIs, and can very easily find where a badboy message (a messagebox saying you entered a bad serial, for example) is coming from. In fact, this is probably the most utilized technique in cracking, the only competition would be a referenced text string search. This is why breakpoint checks are done over important APIs like
MessageBox,VirtualAlloc,CreateDialog, and others that play an important role in the protecting user information process. The first example will cover the most common type of breakpoint which utilizes the INT 3h instruction.