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Re: Patching distributed EXE's

• Posted by "Thomas Parslow (PatRat)" <patrat at rat-software.com> Jan 24, 2001
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> --
>    If you UPX compress the files you will have problem patching.
>    What if the code you are patching needs to contain larger block of code
>    then the original then how do you patch it?
>    I think that the interpter is added to the end of the exe. So a patch
>    of added code would change its offset.

The interpreter is added before the begining of the code in a bound
exe.
Try this:

atom fn
fn = open("patch.exe","ab")
puts(fn,#0A & #AC & "(1,\"tacked on the end!\\n\")")
close(fn)

It probably would be possible to replace the code between 2 string
markers with more shrouded code, maybe this would allow you to patch
the program...

Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483
Rat Software
http://www.rat-software.com/
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