Thread: Pocket Mechanic contains malicious code!
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Old 01-30-2005, 04:18 PM   #8
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And another scary thought is, look at that small amount of code! Around 20 lines of code, and boom... Hard reset. Shouldn't Microsoft make it a LITTLE harder for a program to hard-reset a device?!
ABSOLUTELY! And Tad already spoke about it in the last paragraph... I also have some Win32 programming knowledge, and I know it would be trivial on desktop Windows to hook one of the two relevant API functions via GetProcAddress and then to put your own lines of code to it (e.g. sanity checks to prevent hard-resets). Not sure if that is possible in WinCE though. Suggestions?
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