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Thermo
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Thermo asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 2 decades ago

I see the name of a program. How I can learn what the program can do or does without running it?

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago
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    the name of the program defines most of the part about the

    program .seeing name we can judge what is in the program

  • You have to be more specific. If u just have an executable, then I don't think u can do much about understanding it without running it. If u really wanna dig deeper run the program through a debugger and go thru the assembly code, but am sure u will spend the rest of ur life doing it. :)

  • 2 decades ago

    What you are talking about is called reverse engineering, or static binary analysis.

    There are two types, static and dynamic (static means analysing the binary without running it and dynamic means running it in a debugging environment, something like SoftIce).

    Look up binary forensics etc if you are really interested.

    You can also google the name of the executable, or run it in a controlled environment like VMWare to see what it does (whilst monitoring it with tools like hdmon & regmon from sysinternals).

  • 2 decades ago

    I can see on the google and takes the information of the software.

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  • 2 decades ago

    google that program, it will give you more information about that program.

  • 2 decades ago

    What is the Program? This is "Answers", afterall.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    GOOGLE

    Source(s): infinite wisdom
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