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re: wishing to take apart an .exe to remove spyware
Thursday, December 9, 2004 at 7:13 pm
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Posted by phantom (5661 messages posted)


Many EXEs with spyware have it embedded in the program. If you are a good hacker you can rewrite the source code and do what you will but it does take some expertise. I am not smart enough to do that but there are some real brains that do nothing but hack programs.




On Thursday, December 9, 2004 at 4:31 pm, bill wrote:
>i know there is a .exe that has a really cool wallpaper..but its bundled with spyware...i
>mean..do you really need an exe to download a .jpg? nuh uh!
>
>I was wondering..is there is a program that takes apart an .exe so that i can just
>get what i want? and toss away rest of the junk? (with out even installing the exe
>or spyware)
>
>if so that would be great..so i can use themexp again...to get all the good themes...and
>take out the spyware bundles...




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wishing to take apart an .exe to remove spyware (bill: Thursday, December 9, 2004 at 4:31 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-wishing to take apart an .exe to remove spyware (bill: Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 4:31 pm)
*re: wishing to take apart an .exe to remove spyware (Yap: Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 4:52 pm)
-re: wishing to take apart an .exe to remove spyware (lane: Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 4:52 pm)
-re: wishing to take apart an .exe to remove spyware (bill: Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 5:11 pm)
*re: wishing to take apart an .exe to remove spyware (Yap: Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 8:00 pm)
*re: wishing to take apart an .exe to remove spyware (666: Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 5:31 pm)
*re: wishing to take apart an .exe to remove spyware (joe: Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 5:36 pm)
*re: wishing to take apart an .exe to remove spyware (ifurn0: Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 7:04 pm)
*re: wishing to take apart an .exe to remove spyware (phantom: Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 7:13 pm)
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