Convert Executable to PowerShell
Recently I stumbled upon an executable that appeared to be a PowerShell script converted into an executable. I …
Reverse Engineering
PNAgent Icon Data Algorithm
Some time ago I wrote about the PNAgent data that is stored in the registry in XML format. After that post …
Modify VB Executable to force Taskbar Button
I had to troubleshoot an application that was published with Citrix XenApp. The problem with this application …
Analysing binaries with Binwalk
I came across an interesting tool today called Binwalk. Binwalk is a firmware analysis tool that scans a given …
Packaging an application – Auto Accept the EULA
Yesterday I was packaging an application called Kluwer Juridische Bibliotheek. When the user first starts this …
Altiris AxSched ignores the DSN parameter
I was playing around with the AxSched tool that comes with Altiris, in my case the version that comes with …
Having fun with Windows Licensing
If you look into the registry in the key HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\ProductOptions you will find several …
The case of the Unattended Install
I needed to do an unattended install of an application (in this case Exact Globe 2003) on Citrix. In this case …
Modifying Microsoft Updates and/or hotfixes 2
In a previous post I wrote about patching update.exe to allow installing updates with modified .inf files. A …
New Universal Patch Method
Up until now I used VPatch for all my patches. The disadvantage of VPatch is that it uses strict MD5 hash …