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Cheers, and sorry about the wrong username..

"Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket> wrote in message
news:4012bdd4$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> One method you might use is kind of brute force but is not too hard.
>
> Ship the target program with a file extension that is not EXE and with an
> icon you have created and a data block as large as he is likely to use.
> Also alter the first 1K or so of the file so that it cannot be easily
> identified as an EXE with a different extension.
>
> During installation replace the first 1K or so, search for the total icon
> data and replace with his icon.  Search for the actual data block data and
> replace with his data.  Make sure the data block starts with a size item
so
> that you can handle whatever size he provides when it is smaller than the
> max.  After replacing it, save as a file with an EXE extension.
>
> For the shipped item from which you will create the EXE I'd probably xor
the
> whole file with some 32 bit value and leave out chunks that the installer
> would insert just to make his live miserable should he try to reverse
> engineer it.
>
>
> Note that he must be in Administrator mode to create the EXE and even then
> any anti-virus software may complain so might need to be disabled when
doing
> the install.
>
>
> Side note:
> Your name is not "borland".  Change your news reader name setting.
>
> .  Ed
>
> > borland wrote in message
> > news:401241c9@newsgroups.borland.com...
> >
> > The guy inquestion is someone that is purchasing software
> > off me to sell on to other sites, therefore he want the ability
> > to alter the logo for each sale and so it referrences there
> > sites , but without the end users being able to alter this logo...
> >
> > And the exe wouldn't be modifying itself there would be an
> > admin program which i have already used many times that
> > would assign a data chunk to the end of the exe file
> > containing settings and image data and saved as
> > "yourfilenow.exe".
>
>