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ImprisonedPride
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 Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: Microsoft uses AHK... |
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I recently formatted my computer and was re-installing programs when I tried to reinstall Office 2007 Enterprise off of my disc. I was pretty shocked to find an AHK file used as their launcher:
So I couldn't help but take a peak inside... was pretty basic stuff.
Guess it means something for AHK to be used as part of one of Microsoft's cash-cow's. 
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:42 am Post subject: |
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This should definitely be mentioned in the "letter to the anti-virus companies", I mean, if Microsoft themselves use AutoHotkey, they better dare not flag no AHK-executables as virusses no more  |
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:45 am Post subject: |
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Err, now that I take a better look, I'm not sure this is official, and: you better edit your post, there are serials in there...  |
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| n-l-i-d wrote: | | Err, now that I take a better look, I'm not sure this is official, and: you better edit your post, there are serials in there... |
My 'warez meter' picked up a 28% probability from that script, but in case it's legit, I also recommend masking those serials. I wonder if anyone else can try to decompile some other small executables from M$ installers. That would be interesting...
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 10:52 am Post subject: |
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what version are you installing?
i don't see Launcher.ahk in Office Ultimate 2007 version
and the tree look like not retail. isn't 'All In One' or something like that?
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ImprisonedPride
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:07 am Post subject: |
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From I was told, it was a cd copy of a legit Office 07 Enterprise disc in the same office. Looks like a lie.
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, the copy can be legit, but the added/replaced Launcher with auto-serial-insert is not by Microsoft. |
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ImprisonedPride
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 1:10 am Post subject: |
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True, he might have added that to simplify the process for others.
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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You might want to change the title of the topic as well...
Or add the new info in the initial topic.
Actually, having a .ahk file without installing AHK is pretty useless, so it was not very believable... 
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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Oops... Guess what I found...
| torrent description wrote: | By Paul - pw88 (*****@*****.***) - See FAQ's before e-mailing.
Note, this Third Edition does not make any changes to Office 2007 (see below).
This is a full version of Microsoft Office 2007 (US English only with language pack links) packed into a CD image (.iso) containing:
*Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007
- Access 2007
- Excel 2007
- Groove 2007
- InfoPath 2007
- OneNote 2007
- Outlook 2007
- PowerPoint 2007
- Publisher 2007
- Word 2007
*Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007
*Microsoft Office Project 2007
*Microsoft Expression Web (new FrontPage)
It also contains a launcher application I made myself, source code is in ISO file
The serials are written in by the launcher application... |
| ImprisonedPride wrote: | | From I was told, it was a cd copy of a legit Office 07 Enterprise disc in the same office. Looks like a lie. |
Guess you were right. |
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