MSI and EXE files may appear to do the same thing in many ways; you could say they are the same but have different names. However, that is not the case because while they are similar, differences do ...

Executable files, aka applications, on the other hand, come in all sizes—making them an ideal place to embed lots of data. So two computer scientists created an algorithm that packages your encrypted ...

A new approach to hiding data within executable computer program files could make it almost impossible to detect hidden documents. A new approach to hiding data within executable computer program ...

Yahoo! Mail allows executable files as attachments in email messages; however, depending on the recipient's email service, the user may or may not be able to receive the email. Gmail, for example, ...

I remember "tips" from years ago, like Win3.1 days, where you could change some of the menu text in some apps by manually editing the .EXE, as long as you kept the length of the string resource (and ...

Last time, we created a program to convert various image formats such as PNG and JPEG into formats such as WebP and AVIF. This time, we will convert it into an executable file format using a library ...

You can wrap an executable file around a PowerShell script (PS1) so that you can distribute the script as an .exe file rather than distributing a “raw” script file. This eliminates the need of ...

I recently had the need to embed a file in an executable. Since I'm working at the command line with gcc, et al and not with a fancy RAD tool that makes it all happen magically it wasn't immediately ...

Microsoft has released Sysmon 14 with a new 'FileBlockExecutable' option that lets you block the creation of malicious executables, such as EXE, DLL, and SYS files, for better protection against ...