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ya_humm
April 7th, 2005, 20:34
Hi,msi passionate and guru.
I didn't always reverse programme based on .inx or .msi.Nowaydays it seemed that windows installer had made some change.The setup.msi would create msi*.dll which contains the serial information,and immediately delete them after check it.And You can log the msi*.dll in filemon,but you can't get it and then disassemble with ida.
So how did you deal with this pb?

disavowed
April 8th, 2005, 00:27
why not set a breakpoint on DeleteFile(...) and catch the file before it's deleted?

Solomon
April 8th, 2005, 08:50
use Total Commander with msi plugin to extract the DLL.

JimmyClif
April 8th, 2005, 10:32
Old trick used to be to break when the dll is created and HBOOT

Kayaker
April 8th, 2005, 11:11
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[Originally Posted by JimmyClif]Old trick used to be to break when the dll is created and HBOOT

Damn sneaky crackers!

ya_humm
April 8th, 2005, 19:37
Quote:
[Originally Posted by JimmyClif]Old trick used to be to break when the dll is created and HBOOT


Can you explain it detailedly?Thanks in advance.