Tear or Dear, getting past false positives?

I deduced one possible username and two possible passwords. Both work in the unmodified exe but neither is accepted as the flag. I see the note says there could be false positives but I’m stumped as to what else could fit here. Any hints or suggestions I might have overlooked? I feel like the title should be a hint but I’m not connecting it. The points are small and there are a large number of solves so I must be overlooking something easy!

I got a hint to try a little harder and was able to solve it … thanks, to, you know who you are =)

Hint please

Spoiler Removed - Arrexel

Sighs… when you read the decompiled code wrong… (feels bad for me)

Sorry to necrobump, but I’m stuck on this one. Can’t find the word “credentials” in my debugger to stop the program. What tools do you recommend?

@jonnymorgue said:
Sorry to necrobump, but I’m stuck on this one. Can’t find the word “credentials” in my debugger to stop the program. What tools do you recommend?

I used dnSpy and it worked great for this challenge :slight_smile:

need hints please, i cant read the decompiled code…