full-disclosure - Re: Windows PE Checksums

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Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 06:49:50 +0200
From: Piotr Bania <bania.piotr@...il.com>
To: angray@...b.net, FULLDISC <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: Windows PE Checksums

 >I was checking out Windows PE checksums.
 >And found they do not seem to get checked when executing a .exe file.

Windows surely take care of PE checksum, specially when executing files 
that are protected by System File Checker (windows file protection).

 >Neither does 'dumpbin' check the checksum.
 >Does anyone know of a program (Ideally free and ideally open source) 
 >that checks PE checksums ?

CheckSumMappedFile:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/debug/base/checksummappedfile.asp

You shouldn't have problems with writing your own checksumer.

best regards,
pb





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