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#1 Pt®

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:09

Hello everybody.
I have submited this as a main news, but anyway here I go again:
There are a few secret parameters hidden in googletalk.exe.
The most important I think it is /nomutex which allows to open more than one instance. You can signin twice with the same user too!.
There are many others like /mailto, /factoryreset, /autostart, /forcestart and others.

I have patched the exe to force /nomutex too. If anyone wants more info, just say it.
Enjoy!


#2 Tomo

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:13

Good work!

#3 Soham

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:13

i want more :D

#4 illmonkey

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:14

how did you find that out ?! !?

any others, and what does all the mailto etc actually do ?

#5 Pt®

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:15

/mailto fulano@mengano.com opens "Compose mail"'s Gmail in the explorer

#6 mrblack

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:17

Any chance to post the patched .exe???

#7 Pt®

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:18

I dunno how legal it is...

#8 DigitalSnow

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:24

Its illegal to post the patched exe but
It is not illegal to post the means in which to patch it yourself.

#9 Pt®

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:28

I've changed this:
004536FD . 3BC6 CMP EAX,ESI
004536FF . 75 05 JNZ SHORT googleta.00453706

to this:
004536FD . 8BC1 MOV EAX,ECX
004536FF . EB 05 JMP SHORT googleta.00453706

But you always can create a shortcut to "c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex
Please, delete this message if it isn't legal

#10 Pt®

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:34

Not too serious, really...

#11 xxdesmus

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:36

wow man...doing some serious hacking...i am impressed ;)

#12 +chorpeac

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:36

And the reason you would want to do this is.....Just because?

#13 Pt®

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:38

MSN Users ask always for poligamy

#14 Pt®

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:43

dissassembling... I'm not very proud, I Love Google :)

#15 y0sh

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Posted 24 August 2005 - 13:43

I'm astonished. How did you figure it out?