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Aug 21, 2002, 7:16pm

Not really, heh,
Anyhows, ive been doing my usual binary scans etc for viruses and while I was looking at aworld.exe flash by I saw "Have a nice day" which I presume is a comment somewhere in the programming code. So, does anyone know if "Have A Nice Day" apears anywhere in a AW situation or if AWI is deciding to say hello to people.

- Mark

Aug 21, 2002, 8:18pm

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> ive been doing my usual binary scans etc for viruses and while I was
looking at aworld.exe flash by I saw "Have a nice day"
> which I presume is a comment somewhere in the programming code.

Comments don't become part of the executable. Roland encrypted the
executable to help make it more secure and added a message for people trying
to break it :)

-Agent1

Aug 21, 2002, 8:58pm

agent1 (news:3d6411ab$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com) said: "Roland encrypted
the executable to help make it more secure and added a message for people
trying
to break it :)"

But it's nothing to "break". It's right there, standing at offset 664,
practically waving out to me.. So, it may not exactly say "Have a nice
day!", but it's not too hard to figure out that from something as simple as:

<" at Have.... ...... .....`..y..au..ey at . ..aa nice.......
degree......p..Day..äú..ey at . at ..Pday!">

Only appearing in 3.3+. Anyway, big deal. It's just something. :)

-Status

Aug 21, 2002, 9:16pm

It was Roland's anti-hacking thing. If you decrypted it, sometimes you
would get a file full of "Have a nice day!". Its not a big deal at all.
Now if you edit the browser something like "AW has already been patched"
comes up. Roland had such an odd sense of humor...

-Joe

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Aug 21, 2002, 11:09pm

Ive never got that :o, only assembly.

- Mark

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Aug 22, 2002, 12:14am

If you disassemble it, all you will get is trash. You should get a message
about the runtime unpacking that the program requires. You'd have to be
some math genius to edit any little part of the packed assembly.

-Joe

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Aug 22, 2002, 12:16am

Yeah, ur right.. wait.. I am a maths Genius...

- Mark

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Aug 22, 2002, 12:50am

Try again, Einstein.

-Joe

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Aug 22, 2002, 12:56am

LOL nice pun.

--Bowen--

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