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Originally posted by Mattike
An EXE is a compiled program. If you don't have the source code of it, there's really no way you can modify it. If there would be a way, we wouldn't have to make Plus! hook into Messenger but simply add its source to Messenger's... 
messpatch? apatch?
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Also, it would make programs very vulnerable for malicious programs. Think about a script which changes a virus scanner's code to make it install virusses instead of preventing you from them. 
why do you think virus scanners set up protection to prevent them from being modified...
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The best way to make your idea is by developing such program by yourself, or asking for the code from the original creator.
agreed. reverse engineering is useful if you want to modify one portion of a large application, but changing most of a very small program is just useless.
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