Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

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On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 20:13:15 -0000 (UTC)
Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> wrote:

> > Interesting - I'm curious how common that actually was back in the
> > day, though? I don't recall a lot of DOS applications that I used
> > chaining from one EXE to another, unless you were really into
> > launcher-menu type utilities; most of what I remember was single
> > EXEs for the main program plus accessory EXEs for configuration
> > (i.e. the inevitable SOUNDSET.EXE and its ilk,) and transfer of
> > control was usually mediated by a *.BAT launcher script.  
> 
> It was common enough to be known amongst every coder I knew. Some 
> programmers too. Take some of the multi floppy install packages for
> example. Some decrypted the necessary materials as they built the
> primary file on your computer. The primary file wouldn't always have
> a proper executable extension, but, it was still actually an .EXE
> most of the time.

Huh, I'm trying to model what an exploit would look like here - who &
what would be vulnerable to this? Obviously you *can* create a disk
file with a non-EXE extension & whatever contents you want, but under
what circumstances is another program gonna call the load-and-execute
routine on any arbitrary filename (other than, as mentioned, app-menu
utilities or command-shell alternatives?) Or if the game is to replace
one of an application suite's own I-can't-believe-it's-not-EXEs with a
Trojan, which developers bothered to mask their secondary EXEs under a
different extension, and why...?

(I mean, yes, installers might well build a final EXE from smaller
and/or compressed/encrypted chunks, but the *resulting* file would
normally still have an EXE extension, and be invoked the usual way.)

Not saying that it doesn't make sense to check files on a better-safe-
than-sorry heuristic, just trying to figure out how you'd get to the
point of pulling that kind of trick in the first place...

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