hh -decompile -blimey!
- Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Jun 14, 2007
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Well I never. So all it takes, even on a w98 box, without installing anything, to extract the entire contents of a .chm is to enter "hh -decompile workdir xxx.chm" at a DOS command prompt. Well, it works on most, but not all (eg filzip.chm). Three questions: 1) is parsing the resulting .hhk file the best way to figure out what I can auto-lookup? (I don't want to open Eu.chm with zz_open, or Zz.chm with open, but vice-versa, ie F1 on "zz_open" -> Zz.chm but F1 on "open" ->Eu.chm.) [Some readers may note I've been banging my head against this long-time.] 2) I know I could look this up meself, but pointers to reversing this after the above would be appreciated. (IE can/should I avoid the M$ crap?) 3) I have heard about virus/trojans (usually of low payload) in chm files, can anyone confirm if the above and checking for .exe is a good/safe thing? Regards, Pete