Urza9814 Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 Is there a way I can, like, decompile a Win32 .pif file with mandrake? See, my friend got this virus...really bad apparently...and he knew exactly where it was from...so obviously the first thing I did was ask the link, the second was boot to linux and DL it :P and now, I want to get a look at it...so, any way I can do that, or was that pretty much pointless? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 i was going to say its just a binary file but im not sure so i did a quick research. based on most definitions, its just a way of telling MSDOS and Windows how to run an executable. its kind of like a shortcut where you specify the fonts, screen size, etc. then i searched for a pif file in my workstation here in the office and passed it thorugh cat. its a binary file but you can see the executable that it will run (C:\winnt\_DEFAULT.pif wil try to run a _DEFAULT.bat). i guess there is no point in decompiling a pif file (you can if you know assembly). you need to study the program or file it is associating to. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 .pif files have been replaced by .lnk files since Win95, but .pif is still used for DOS, I think. But if it's a virus or a worm, it could be anything with just the extension changed. All Windows needs to know is what kind of binary the header tells it the file is. You may be able to get some kind of info with strings *.pif or file *.pif but I doubt it'll do much good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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