Code Hacking

[Squintz]

I got this software which came with a Digital Spy Pen and i want to look at the code and see how it works. The pen product number is HE509 and the software is very simple. It just has a few buttons to press and a display area which diplays the downloaded images. It almost looks like it could be some for of VB because of how simple the software enviroment looks. I have read that there are no such things as decompilers for VB5 and 6 executables

 

Any ideas of how to crack this exe. It also comes with a dll which i will have to look at in a second

[J0n]

Yeah, you can't decompile Visual Basic .exe's the most you can get is just the form names and some other minor details. All you could really do is to get a disassembler and view its assembly code.

[fafalone]

..and as far as a dll, all you're going to get is assembler code and the imports/exports names

[mooeypoo]

http://www.vbrezq.com/

 

Surprised? So was I.

The program is a bit limited, but it does the work. Mostly.

 

I was also told that the program called "RACE" (not usually found in search engines, but can be found here: http://www.exetools.com/ ) is good to extract images and files from a VB exe file. It isn't as good in code extracting, but oh well, better than nothing.

 

This: http://www.decompiler.org/

might help too.

 

And in general, try to google for "Decompile VB EXE" it might show some good results.

 

Hope that helped.

 

~moo