FPHG available

[Pokey]

Outstanding. Thanks for the information, and thanks for not misinterpreting me as accusing anybody of anything. What can I say? I'm paranoid. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I'll give this a whirl when I get home tonight.

Thanks again -- this has been super valuable for me.

[Splossy]

How would Party go about detecting it and how easy would it be for the developer to change the program name or process names in various updates?

BTW - works perfectly. Many thanks.

[jukofyork]

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How would Party go about detecting it and how easy would it be for the developer to change the program name or process names in various updates?

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If you simply change the name of the executable, then this will change the process name for you.

BUT, this is not the way Party will detect it and they will most likely dump the contents of the process using the ReadProcessMemory() function, then match a signature to it (basically the same way as a virus killer finds resident viruses).

If you want then you have a few options to avoid this (in order of complexity):

(1) Run ProcessGuard and protect the FreePHG process from being read by other processes.

(2) Edit the source code by moving the functions around, add some extra junk code to pad it out and recompile using different compiler options to what I have used.

(3) Read up on Runtime-Polymorphic-Encryptors (as used in viruses), and add a simple Polymorphic XOR encryptor to the code. This will slow it down slightly as it will have to decrypt its code segments each cycle, but it will stop the ReadProcessMemory() + signature testing trick dead. Party will then require a fairly advanced heuristic to detect FreePHG (NOTE: This must be runtime polymorphic, therefore using something like "Yoda's Cryptor" [which is "loadtime polymorphic"] will not be much help...).

Atm it is not clear if they are against this mining technique, but if sometime in the future they do clamp down and decide to ban FPHG or data-mining in general (like Stars have for example), then I myself will not be carrying on data-mining and will not be updating any banned code to do workarounds like I mentioned above. FPHG will always remain open-source, so if others decide to do write workarounds, then they can if they so wish...

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[DaSpade]

I am getting the "the compressed folder is invalid/corrupted" message when I'm trying to extract v .05. I have tried both IE and firefox. What am I missing / can someone rehost it please?

Thanks.

[jukofyork]

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I am getting the "the compressed folder is invalid/corrupted" message when I'm trying to extract v .05. I have tried both IE and firefox. What am I missing / can someone rehost it please?

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Hmmmm... I thought I had got to the bottom of this, but alas it looks like this problem has come back. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

If you give me about 5 minutes, then I will host a copy on the main page as a RAR file and see if this helps (you will need to use winrar to extract it though).

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[jukofyork]

The main page for FPHG now has a copy hosted in RAR format (and a link to where you can download a copy of WinRAR).

Tell me if this works any better for you.

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[DaSpade]

It works perfect now!

Thanks a lot juk. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[jukofyork]

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It works perfect now!

Thanks a lot juk. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Cool, I just wish I knew why my zips sometime break for some people... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[baronzeus]

Hi Juk,

I'm having a hard time opening Party clients on multiple windwos accounts. Let me outline the steps I took.

1. Make a bunch of accounts on windows.
2. Install Party on all those accounts.
3. Try to open Party on all those accounts.

Is there some trick that I'm missing?

[jukofyork]

Are you trying to log into these accounts? You can only log into one of them (for 10 tables), and have to make do with just 4 tables for each of the others.

Also FPHG needs to be run in each of the accounts.

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]