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RE: Help with coding/hex editing
&H16EC1 is an hexadecimal number. It's decimal value is
((((((1 * 16) + 6) * 16) + 14) *16) + 12) * 16 +1
which is the same as
1*16^4 + 6*16^3 + 14*16^2 + 12*16 + 1
It's just another way to represent numbers.
The code, opens the exe of messenger and modifies it. It writes the string "4542" at the offset 0x16EC1 from the begining. Doing that is illegal, so I won't explain anything more.
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