Self-running, stand-alone executable files allow you to distribute PowerPoint presentations that anyone can run. Coworkers, clients and employees who receive your executable file can click it to view ...

An anti-virus program registering every executable file on the computer as infected indicates the computer may be under attack by a virus. According to PC Magazine, a virus attaches copies of itself ...

Today I came across this software called Batch Compiler. Batch Compiler is an advanced software for scripting batch files and compiling them into EXE files. The free tool offers you a workspace where ...

Most of us are familiar with the Command Prompt and its basic commands. We usually execute a set of commands to complete a task or obtain some information. But this can also be done with the help of a ...

A new approach to hiding data within executable computer program files could make it almost impossible to detect hidden documents. A new approach to hiding data within executable computer program ...

I remember "tips" from years ago, like Win3.1 days, where you could change some of the menu text in some apps by manually editing the .EXE, as long as you kept the length of the string resource (and ...

Update 10/15/16: I have updated the article below to address that this ransomware is not continuously monitoring for files. When the ransomware runs it will target the %Desktop% first and then encrypt ...

I am trying to make a CD that will automatically open an HTML file upon being inserted in a user's Win9x/2000/XP machine. I did a little research and found that Autorun.inf is set up for this purpose.