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Apr 29th, 2002, 05:43 AM
abhaybakshi

Guys/gals, i want your opinions/suggestions on this idea.

Hello,

Recently i went mad and opened some exe file in notepad !
(because my net was down)

Obviously all i saw was junk characters.

What should i do?

So i deleted first character on line#15 which was an ascii character.

I saved the file and run that program. As expected it didn't run and throwed error...

"Program too big to fit in memory".

And suddenly an idea striked to me.

I may be able to make an application like file scrambler?

It will "cut" say some 5th character from 100th line and will store it. To descramble file (to make it usuable), it will just open the file and undo the changes. Line number and character will be random. Nobody on earth will be able to run that exe unless and untill the changes are undone (which only this application do).

Guys/gals, i want your opinions/suggestions/critics/ on this idea.
Apr 29th, 2002, 07:54 AM
Wokawidget

Then there was a loud bang...and religion was started!

It wud not work :D
When you saved it in notepad it save the file with an EXE extension, but it was not it a file format, it was textbased. U need to use a HexEditor to edit parts of programs directly...Loads are already on the web which are free...

Someone correct me if I am wrong...
Apr 29th, 2002, 08:12 AM
darre1

no your right.

also if you remove 1 char from the exe, whats to say that by complete fluke it runs still, even if it does something completely different! :D

there's a silly thought :)
Apr 29th, 2002, 08:47 AM
Bazza81

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Originally posted by darre1
no your right.

also if you remove 1 char from the exe, whats to say that by complete fluke it runs still, even if it does something completely different! :D

there's a silly thought :)

Your spot on there. The ascii chars in exe files represent a number 0 - 255, these are then sent round Windows (where it messes everything up) and converted into bits then sent to the processor, I think!