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I'm trying to extract the data in a small exe. application. I don't want to run the app because it's packaged with forced spyware. I didn't think this would be that hard to do, but I can't find anything of the sort. anybody know any programs, tricks?
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I'm pretty sure you cannot decompile an executable once it has been compiled, but if all you want is to extract data, then open the exe in Notepad, (or Wordpad if it is too big for Notepad).
Mark
Download it from http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/av.htm (somewhere at the end). It shows all ASCII strings in a binary file (like an exe).
If the data you're looking for isn't in ASCII, it's rather hopeless.
Kees
Decompiling is rarely done on Windows applications because the code that would come out would be useless for most. In fact, if you can't decompile then it it far too likely you can't compile so your request shows that something is not being shared.
Also worth noting is that this protects the author's rights. You will find these forums to support such protection.
Bob
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