squidge
February 8th, 2003, 19:51
I imagine quite a few of us look through hundreds of pages installshield decompiled setup script files when analysing a program, and I'm just wondering how useful would an emulator be for the actual .INS or .INX files ?
Rather than just plain ol' decompiling, actually emulate the code and show what functions are being called, which DLLs are being used, with what arguments, what results, etc..
Anyone thought of this or already done it ? There seems to be more and more programs now which do some protection setup in the installshield file, but use DLLs with scrambled names, so we don't know exactly what they are doing.
Rather than just plain ol' decompiling, actually emulate the code and show what functions are being called, which DLLs are being used, with what arguments, what results, etc..
Anyone thought of this or already done it ? There seems to be more and more programs now which do some protection setup in the installshield file, but use DLLs with scrambled names, so we don't know exactly what they are doing.
