full-disclosure - Re: Windows Registry Analzyer

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From: davek_throwaway at hotmail.com (Dave Korn)
Subject: Re: Windows Registry Analzyer

"Eric Windisch" wrote in message news:1109872449.8117.25.camel@...alhost...
> Perhaps this is just the Unix user in me, but I ask:
> How about just making a copy of the registry on boot (or at intervals)
> and compare it to the last copy?
>
> Note that the following example is untested, but should be mostly
> accurate.

  No, it would be completely useless.  In case you didn't realise, the
registry is not an ASCII text file, it's megabytes of unintelligible binary
gibberish.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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