how to decode *.exe file

[Adri Ferdian]

can we decode *.exe file to *.cpp or *.c (source code) file with C++??
how???

[jonnin]

No, all you can do is convert it to virtually unreadable asm code. Its almost
as easy to use a hex editor on the thing to modify it...


"Adri Ferdian" <adri_ferdian@anixtreme.com> wrote:
>
>can we decode *.exe file to *.cpp or *.c (source code) file with C++??
>how???

[Chris Pointon]

>can we decode *.exe file to *.cpp or *.c (source code) file with C++??
>how???

You can't get back to the C++ code - all the information about classes, variables,
filenames etc. is lost when they're compiled & linked. If you want to find
out what's inside a Win32 EXE file (the official name for the file format
is "Portable Executable (PE) File"), have a look at this article:

http://www.eccentrica.org/Mammon/Text/pefile.html

Also, a guy called Matt Pietrek from NuMega did a bunch of articles back
in 1996 or so explaining various parts of how exes and dlls interact with
the OS. Search for his name on MSDN to get their archives.