What is your computer’s maximum render quality, resolution, and frames per second for Battlefield 3? Hard core gamers are eager to show off their expensive, tuned setup at its full potential. Overclocked processors and computers cooled with liquid hydrogen are lovely parts of the gaming folklore. The source code below instruments Direct3D 9 applications to […]
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 injects a DLL to create an object based on the IDirect3D9 interface and hook the address of the CreateDevice COM method from […]
Note: we updated the code on August 23, 2013. The new code includes an “abort” feature, discussed in the article Instrumenting Microsoft SQL Server to Abort Dangerous Queries. Our Deviare hooking engine can be used to hook into Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RTM (11.00.2100.60) and 2014 CTP1 queries at the application level. Tools like WireShark use a […]
Introduction Benchmarking virtualization products is an addictive game. Below we use SpyStudio to compare how long it takes to load a 21 slides PowertPoint presentation, with text and graphics, in three environments: Microsoft App-V 5 (MNT), Symantec Workspace Virtualization 6.4.1603, and natively. We measure the time elapsed until the slides show up on the GUI. […]
Dll injection is one of the oldest techniques used to run custom code inside a target application in Windows. It is usually used to intercept and modify normal application behavior or add new functionality. Injecting a DLL in a target process is a relatively easy task: you simply create a remote thread that calls LoadLibrary […]
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 IE8 was installed as the base operating system but not when the base was IE9. In the following screenshot we show how Spy Studio’s trace […]
The Deviare Interception Engine includes a feature that allows developers to add plugins to hooks. When a hooked API is called, it will raise the OnFunctionCalled method of all attached plugins to allow the reading and writing of parameters, and passing custom parameters to the INktSpyMgr object. Since the method is called in the context […]
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 other within the agent. The custom hook can send data, or custom parameters. to the SpyMgr process. The custom Deviare modules running in the agent have access […]
Nektra announces the release of the new version of WLMailApi, the most used SDK designed to develop plugins in Windows Live Mail 2009 2011 and 2012 What’s new WLMailAPI Works With Windows Live Mail 2012 and Windows 8 Released on September of 2012 Works with all versions that Microsoft Supports Works with Windows […]
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 with Windows Live Mail and recognize viruses. The C# code sample below uses the nClam library to interface with an open […]