[Full-disclosure] Re: Windows PE Checksums

[Piotr Bania <bania.piotr@xxxxxxxxx>]

>I was checking out Windows PE checksums.
>And found they do not seem to get checked when executing a .exe file.

Windows surely take care of PE checksum, specially when executing files 
that are protected by System File Checker (windows file protection).

>Neither does 'dumpbin' check the checksum.
>Does anyone know of a program (Ideally free and ideally open source) 
>that checks PE checksums ?

CheckSumMappedFile:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/debug/base/checksummappedfile.asp

You shouldn't have problems with writing your own checksumer.

best regards,
pb





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