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On 06/26/2014 09:20 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
> I'm leaning towards that too Jan, but the bizarre "just run my 
> sketchy looking self-packed EXE" and evasiveness is still raising
> my hackles.

If you were trying to spread some secret-stealing malware, this would
be a rather silly way to do it. Those compressed exes are quite common
even among completely legit software.

I guess he did it to make disassembly/reverse engineering harder -
common precaution in a place where ripping off someone else is the
norm and not an exception. That's likely why there is no source code
neither.

The perceived evasiveness I would really attribute to the language
barrier. Whenever one of my students didn't actually understand what I
am saying, they just kept going at whatever they were doing, ignoring
what has been said. A western student would stop me and ask, for an
Asian student it would be showing disrespect to the teacher (a big
no-no), so they would stay silent and pretend to have understood
everything. It took me a while to learn to deal with this.

All that said, it could still be a hamfisted attempt to spread malware
to steal trade secrets or something else. Or simply spam, trying to
piggyback on OSG to sell some vaguely related product. But I wouldn't
jump to conclusions - don't ascribe malice to what can be explained by
incompetence :)

J.
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