[Code-Crunchers] Tiny PE: now 274 bytes

[Gil Dabah]

> You can activate DEP in XP SP2 and Win2K3 SP1 for all processes (not the
> default), if you have an AMD64 or Intel EM64T processor (even if you're
> running in 32-bit mode.)  But I don't know if the protection profile is
> quite the same as in Vista, where they have obviously done more
> rearchitecting.


I will try it then.

> 
> I haven't dug too deeply yet.  The error report that popped up
> specifically cited DEP and a stack-something.
> 
> But speaking generally, that's why I was asking about Windows versions.
>    It doesn't work on some of them.  Suggest that you might specify one
> or two particular Windows versions for the challenge.
> 
> > The purpose is to crunch code and stretch the PE header as much as
> possible.
> > ;)
> 
> Reason I ask is because the original request was to make a program that
> was a small as possible, to bootstrap a download.  I don't know that I
> would start with a PE file for that.  But that can be a later challenge.

Ok, ok, you are right. The name of the list is code-crunchers. Assembly
isn't mentioned anywhere, except the title of the ML, but who cares.
Although, it is crystal clear this ML is for assembly freaks :)
You can go head with batch scripting or anything else you are up to that
will run without pre-installing of anything. :)
That will be interesting nevertheless.

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