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Hacking Applications With Memory Editors

Well I think that most of you heard of the so called ‘Memory Editors’ like TSearch, GameHack, GameWiz32 and much much more. Well for those who do not know what these are I will explain it briefly. These so called ‘Memory Editors’ are special software that are able to open a process / program while it is running and thses Memory Editors are able search, read and edit it’s variables. So if for example there is a game and you want to edit it’s highscore then all you have to do is open for example TSearch, and run the game, while you are playing you just follow a few steps and you will be able to edit the highscore value and for example from 1000 you will be able to edit it to 100000 or to whatever number you wish.

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I am a software developer myself and I’m always looking for new ways to develop my software. Nowadays everyone is searching new methods to make their software more secure, but that doesn’t mean 100% secure. But anyways I found a way to protect your software from Memory Editors like TSearch. As most of us know, TSearch searches for variables in the Memory, reads the values, edits them etc… So as TSearch finds the variables I thought, why not storing the data elsewhere? Not in a variable? And I thought, yeah a text box!! So I tried the experiment and it worked! Instead of declaring the variable I stored it into a text box (which I can make hidden, so the user will not be able to see it) and TSearch was not be able to find it! Then I tried declaring the variable and store it as a normal variable, and TSearch found it, and I was able to edit it.

Here is a zip file (Security Test -> Click To Download), if you want download it and run the two exe files, one is using a variable and the other a text box, run TSearch on both of them and you will see that in the ‘Declared Variable.exe’ you will find it and be able to edit the value too (you will find 4, one of them is the message box variable and the other 3 are the variable) In the second one ‘Value In Textbox.exe’ you will find none!

Hope this helps you to make your software better and more secure! So do use a text box instead of declaring variables! And protect your games and softwares from these Memory Editors.