Program to 'hack' internal workings of another program?
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From: Kabuki Armadillo on 27 Jan 2010 14:57 "B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson" <br.ederson(a)expires-2010-01-31.arcornews.de> wrote in message news:5a0cko20d6u4$.dlg(a)br.ederson.news.arcor.de... > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:21:13 -0800, Kabuki Armadillo wrote: > >>> I want to hack essentialPIM's categories and change them to something >>> more >>> meaningful to me. Only the Pro version offers this capability. >> >> (Blushes...) Figured this out. Just open the language file in a text >> editor >> and edit the names there. > > In your OP you mentioned editing the executable. Don't use a *text* editor > for this task, unless you know it works save for /binary editing/. It used to be that you could use the old Win3.1 Write for this trick and it would work fine as long as the checksum remained the same. I assume that Wordpad can accomplish the same thing. At any rate, it wasn't needed in this case... M
From: Shadow on 28 Jan 2010 14:56
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:06:45 -0800, "Kabuki Armadillo" <kabuki.armadillo(a)geemail.com> wrote: >A cryptic subject heading I know, but I wasn't sure what the name for it >was... > It's called a debugger. Ollydbg and IDA pro come to mind. The first is freeware. >My challenge: >I want to hack essentialPIM's categories and change them to something more >meaningful to me. Only the Pro version offers this capability. Epim is packed with upx, easy enough, but the text strings are also encrypted inside the program. I tried cracking the pro version once, but gave up after 20 minutes or so, when I discovered that the freeware was more than adequate for my needs. So ...probably not worth the bother. > >However, I seem to recall many years ago, there were programs that would let >you open the executable of another program and edit any words you could find >within it. Yes. Any hex editor. Easy enough if the program is not encrypted or if it does not have a crc check. []'s |