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Removing the “On Behalf Of” Message from Outlook

Microsoft Outlook users who want to prevent Outlook from showing “X on behalf of Y” to the recipient can download our free Outlook add-on here, uncompress it, and run the setup.exe application....

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Controlling the Speed of YouTube, Flash, HTML5, and Desktop Videos with...

Controlling Playback Speed Our Deviare Hooking Engine can be used to speed up or slow down a video during playback using the code available here (github repository). This code is pretty small and...

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Instrumenting Binary Applications with VBScript and Deviare

The VBScript script below shows how to intercept Win32 registry APIs such as RegOpenKey and RegQueryValue using the Deviare Interception Engine. Windows Internals’ Process Monitor, the tool most often...

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Windows API Hooking in Python with Deviare

The code below uses Python to intercept the CreateFile function on the kernel32.dll to forbid opening certain files. It hooks the CreateFile function for the notepad.exe application. The Python code...

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Windows Live Mail API Anti-Virus Example

One of the top uses of our Windows Live Mail API is integrating a vendor antivirus to the Windows Live Mail desktop client. For example, Trend Micro’s Titanium Security Solutions uses it to integrate...

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Automating Google’s Doodles: 4.9 Second Record on Hurdles

And now for something completely different. The AutoIt script below will make you run Google’s hurdles doodle faster than Usain Bolt: 4.9 seconds is our automation record. Can you improve it? Surely...

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Improving Deviare Hooking Performance with Custom Hooks

More Binary Instrumentation Alternatives Deviare now has custom hooks to improve hooking performance. With custom hooks, two “OnFunctionCall” events are triggered: one in the SpyMgr process, and the...

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Application Virtualization Testing and Troubleshooting with SpyStudio and...

In Spy Studio: Solving an Issue on IE6 we troubleshot an issue that happens while virtualizing an Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) layer for Japanese using Symantec Workspace Virtualization. IE6 worked when...

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Benchmarking IE6 Virtualization: VMWare ThinApp vs. Symantec Workspace...

Introduction Below we use SpyStudio to compare ThinApp and Workspace Virtualization performance. Both Symantec and VMWare highlight the use of application virtualization to run legacy web...

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How to Identify Virtual Table Functions with the VTBL IDA Pro Plugin

VTBL is an IDA script which identifies all the virtual tables found in any module of a native process. The virtual tables can be related to a COM or a C++ class. Unlike other tools, ours does not...

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SQL Server Interception and SQL Injection Attack Prevention

Our Deviare hooking engine can be used to hook into Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RTM (11.00.2100.60) queries at the application level. Tools like WireShark use a different approach since they intercept...

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Intercepting Direct3D COM Objects and Making Game Walls Invisible

Using Deviare to Cheat on Games This simple Deviare code allows you to to see through game walls. We intercept Direct3D objects and select wireframe mode so the walls are transparent. This code...

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Capturing Unencrypted HTTPS Requests and Responses (As Seen at BlackHat Arsenal)

Today Manuel Fernandez is presenting HookME at Black Hat USA Arsenal 2013. HookME is software designed for intercepting communications which uses the Nektra Deviare Engine for binary instrumentation....

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Using Deviare to Create a Temporary Zero Day Patch

Zero day vulnerabilities put organizations at the mercy of vendors. These vulnerabilities are like a ticking bomb: you do not know when someone will exploit them. Writing your own patch for closed...

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Sending Large Files in Outlook via Google Drive

You can download our free Outlook Add-In for Google Drive to sample our Outlook managed file transfer services. Several issues arise when sending large files with Outlook: there is a data overhead for...

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Instrumenting Microsoft SQL Server to Abort Dangerous Queries

Hernan has added a new feature to the code offered in our article SQL Server Interception and SQL Injection Attack Prevention. Now it is possible to cancel queries as well as watch them. The code...

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Nektra and VMware are Collaborating to Simplify Application Virtualization...

Nektra’s SpyStudio provides tools allowing for application harvesting and simplified packaging for the VMware ThinApp offering Nektra and VMware, Inc. have been collaborating to significantly improve...

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Case Study: How Nektra Improved Desktop Virtualization for Symantec Corporation

Introduction Large companies are continually faced with new technologies and shorter technology cycles which render their trusted applications obsolete. Migrating an application from one technology to...

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The Changing Landscape of the Application Performance Monitoring Market

If you look at the last Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for APM and compare it with what is really happening in the market you will notice two things: With the exception of Compuware, the leaders, New Relic...

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Deviare Hooking Engine is Open Source and Deviare In-Proc Supports .NET Hooking

We have good news for those interested in Windows Hooking. Deviare Hooking Engine is now open source and available on GitHub. The license is GPL but a commercial license and support are also available...

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