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from: DAVID KIRSCHBAUM
date: 1997-05-05 11:10:00
subject: 486TO586

Has anyone disassembled this bogus utility?  (It purports to somehow 
magically change your system so your 486 now runs as well as a 586 .. and the 
most recent versions say it'll run like a Pentium.)
It's a total fraud, of course .. but I just wondered what the program is 
_actually_ doing (and a disassembly would be the best way to find out, I 
suppose).
It's encrypted (several layers), of course.  I worked through the decryption 
in DEBUG, saved a chunk of the "clear-text" (if you can use that phrase for a 
binary program) out .. and it looks like the original program was programmed 
in C.  So the disassembly is gonna be ugly.
But if anyone's already done that, I'd love to see the disassembled assembly 
language source .. or the original C source, if anyone knows where it is.
Or if nothing else, an authoritative (anyone out there consider themselves an 
authority?) explanation as to what it actually does.
Thanks in advance.
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