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Retrieving executables code 3
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No hex-editing is basicaly hacking an exe to change thins. You could try i think.
it rarely works but it is still cool.
it rarely works but it is still cool.
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You used to be able to do this with VB4 16bit and earlier versions (they defaulted to compiling to interpreted code), and you could use a decompiler on them. They produced ugly code, but you could figure it out with a little effort.
But since then, VB has defaulted to producing native Intel code, and decompiling isn't cost effective any more (yes, Intel decompilers exist, but figuring out what the VB program does is nearly impossible).
Chip H.
You used to be able to do this with VB4 16bit and earlier versions (they defaulted to compiling to interpreted code), and you could use a decompiler on them. They produced ugly code, but you could figure it out with a little effort.
But since then, VB has defaulted to producing native Intel code, and decompiling isn't cost effective any more (yes, Intel decompilers exist, but figuring out what the VB program does is nearly impossible).
Chip H.
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