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RE: program that opens compressed exes ?
Files (including executables) can be compressed in hundreds of ways. It is up to you to figure out what compression-method is used, and decompress them with the proper program before reshacking them.
But take note that the reason why executables are compressed is often to prevent "hacking" them. In other words: illegal....
And because it is very often illegal to uncompress the files and reshack them, I wont say anything more then this: You can almost always find out the compression method used by looking at the executables DOS stub header to find the first allocation point; that will often give you the name of the program used for compressing. (UPX is the most widespread (and free) method used)
Thus also remember that there isn't a program to view compressed executables as there are hundreds of methods and programs able to compress executables (all in different ways).
Really want to know more? I suggest to google for it, there are thousands of sites about "exe compression"....
This post was edited on 10-20-2004 at 02:59 PM by CookieRevised.
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