hello everyone ive posted in here instead of the specific langauge forum because the topic i want to pick your brains on i would hope wil become more of a discusion. I would really like to ask you guys firstly about what I was hoping to achieve which is to create a program to copy the contents of RAM from a running machine. I currently have made a prog that creates a copy of image of a physical device and now i was hoping to tackle RAM. Now.......i hope none of you guys are seing this post and alarm bells start ring thinking im trying to hack password and what not cos honestly this is not my intention.

I am actualy in education at present studing forensics and this idea is for a final year project which would be the "dogs bollocks" in my eyes and im really excited to try and take this project on! My langujage of choice is C++ but if im honest i would not have the foggiest on how to even begin!! in other forums ive been met with not so helpful responses with everyone presuming im up to no good but im hoping you guys could really help me out here with your input as you've already helped me loads on my programming path so far.

All advice would be welcome and im not asking for the perfect solution mainly just a push in the right direction as i have no idea how to start! Also qurious as to what you guys think as in - am i biting off more than i can chew here? im not the best programmer in the world but i think i have graduated from a beginner - i think:)

im looking forward to your replys
thanks

This post has been edited by tootypegs: 11 Sep, 2008 - 05:19 PM

I'm moving this to the Discuss Projects forum, the lounge isn't the place for a topic like this. Also, they're called Paragraphs

Maybe go through reading memory addresses with a little pointer arithmetic and store them to a vector or struct. Then save that to a file or serialize it to save it as binary. Also, if you really wanted to hack someone's password, their are easier ways.