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    • gjacobseG
      gjacobse
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      a Batch file is just a text file renamed to the .BAT extension which all PCs know to read as a set of 'keyboard' commands. You can not have a batch file and not be text readable. As @scottalanmiller pointed out - That's now how it works.

      If you want something that does x and y and not be 'readable' by your 'buddy' you need to compile it into some 'application'...

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      • LakshmanaL
        Lakshmana
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        Suggest some applications if possible ?

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
          last edited by

          @lakshmana said in Bat file Protection:

          I am having test.bat file which i created in my machine where some commands like systeminfo is present for example.The file ran in my machine and saved the file output in .bat in my machine.Then my friend also took that file and able to see the commands inside the bat.
          He should not open and see that file if he opens the commands should not see the commands in it.

          But he SHOULD, period. How do you expect him to be able to run it if he can't see it? That's not possible.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
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            @lakshmana said in Bat file Protection:

            Suggest some applications if possible ?

            The issue is that he should not be the one running it. You are attempting security through obscurity. In this case, you are looking for the obscurity. You need to stop and think about goals. You are trying to do something impossible.

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            • LakshmanaL
              Lakshmana
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              Then how .exe files are created any ideas ?

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
                last edited by

                @lakshmana said in Bat file Protection:

                Then how .exe files are created any ideas ?

                But I just explained that .exe can't do this either. He can still open an exe and see what it is doing.

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                • LakshmanaL
                  Lakshmana
                  last edited by

                  Now i am having the file in encrypted which is not viewable in the PC but the file is not running in the machine B.A machine run the file

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    You need to change fundamentally what you are trying to do. Which we don't know what that is. Why do you want your friend to run this program? Clearly you don't think that he should have this access, so what is going on?

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
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                      @lakshmana said in Bat file Protection:

                      Now i am having the file in encrypted which is not viewable in the PC but the file is not running in the machine B.A machine run the file

                      You can't run an encrypted file.

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                      • LakshmanaL
                        Lakshmana @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said in Bat file Protection:

                        @lakshmana said in Bat file Protection:

                        Then how .exe files are created any ideas ?

                        But I just explained that .exe can't do this either. He can still open an exe and see what it is doing.

                        How it able to do ?

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          I'm going to give you a future recap of where this conversation will go...

                          1. We will explain that you can't run something that he can't see.
                          2. You'll ask how to do what we just said you can't do.
                          3. We'll explain again that you can't do that no matter how you modify the words.
                          4. You'll ask again how to do the same thing in a trivially different way.
                          5. We'll start the process over.

                          Until you change what you are trying to do, the answer will be "you can't do that". What you are trying to do cannot be done, no matter how you attempt to obfuscate it.

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                          • LakshmanaL
                            Lakshmana @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said in Bat file Protection:

                            @lakshmana said in Bat file Protection:

                            Now i am having the file in encrypted which is not viewable in the PC but the file is not running in the machine B.A machine run the file

                            You can't run an encrypted file.

                            Why the file got encrypted now ??It should be usable Right ?

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
                              last edited by

                              @lakshmana said in Bat file Protection:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Bat file Protection:

                              @lakshmana said in Bat file Protection:

                              Then how .exe files are created any ideas ?

                              But I just explained that .exe can't do this either. He can still open an exe and see what it is doing.

                              How it able to do ?

                              Just open it with a hex editor and you can see the commands.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
                                last edited by

                                @lakshmana said in Bat file Protection:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Bat file Protection:

                                @lakshmana said in Bat file Protection:

                                Now i am having the file in encrypted which is not viewable in the PC but the file is not running in the machine B.A machine run the file

                                You can't run an encrypted file.

                                Why the file got encrypted now ??It should be usable Right ?

                                No, you have to decrypt any file to use it, always.

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                                • LakshmanaL
                                  Lakshmana @scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  @scottalanmiller How to encrypt the bat file and decrypt it ?

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
                                    last edited by

                                    @lakshmana said in Bat file Protection:

                                    @scottalanmiller How to encrypt the bat file and decrypt it ?

                                    Why are you asking about this now that you know it is useless?

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      There is no need to encrypt and decrypt that BAT file, just give your friend the BAT file. Same results.

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                                      • LakshmanaL
                                        Lakshmana
                                        last edited by

                                        I verified this link but some confusions

                                        https://www.computing.net/answers/programming/hide-batch-file-contents/28331.html

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                                        • LakshmanaL
                                          Lakshmana
                                          last edited by

                                          This link too

                                          https://superuser.com/questions/62525/run-a-batch-file-in-a-completely-hidden-way

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                                          • LakshmanaL
                                            Lakshmana
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                                            Its possible i think from the above forums

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