Oh and update on the tools I'm using.
right now Resource Hacker is very user-friendly and helpful
although I've noticed that there are some bitmap (mainly icons)
that I can replace without getting an error message from
"kazaa" about a "missing dll" being required....this made me
wonder if fasttrack was somehow hiding dll files in their bitmap
images or "resources" within the compiled KaZaA executable?
There are a few other items that when a change is attempted
to be made will also crash the Resource Hacker program.
Another note. I WAS WRONG when I mentioned earlier that
Kazaa.exe is compressed using PECompact 1.67 (this information was not based on my own first hand experience but on that of a cracker by the name of ReaLiStry.)
When I tried using various different "unpacking" tools on it like unpecompact , etcetera...i got the message that "this executable is not packed using PECompact...so either ReaLisTry was mistaken OR this was a different version he was unpacking but
I was unsuccessful with using unpecompact to uncompress the executable.
ANOTHER *NOTE*
There is some check made by the kazaa.exe that looks for the prescence of SoFtICE being run on your system and if it detects it then it will refuse to open or run the executable...
anyone know anyways around this.
and of course their is the cydoor dependency which hopefully the Cydoor Developer's kit will provide some answers and or solutions for it.
This is also another example of what happens when too much is known about a work in progress....the people who are
protecting their software are able to learn as well and put safeguards like the one's mentioned above into affect.
Anyone remember RefoSearch?
Now THERE was a CLIENT!
MiRRoRman, where are you!?!
