Re: Is there a safe way to check out an EXE file?


"John" <nothanks@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:yOidnfdLPcm8okPenZ2dnUVZ_tSdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Is there any way of testing, or checking out what a particular .exe
file
> will do? Opening it in notepas is worthless. It would be great if
there was
> way to run the tink in some kind of "safe testing environement" that
can
> give a log of just what the exe did.
>
> Anything even close? I'd like to know if there are hidden
virus,trojan,
> loggers etc.
>
> -John

This isn't the "do it yourself" solution but you can do can do a Google
search of the name of the .exe file. You will usually find several sites
with descriptions of what the file is and does.

Chas.


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