Hi,
I'm in a bit of a pickle, I have a Perl script that someone has compiled with perl2exe (to make a standalone package for use on Win32 machines, not hide anything).
The source seems lost along with any information about what the script actually does (going though a whole bunch of undocumented systems), I only found it by chance digging around for the origin of a file.
I have tried following link to a Bugtraq post by ta@domainbox but this doesn't seem to work for me. I've also tried the Deparse method posted by tachyon here, but get an error concerning an unrecognised character \x09, which indicates perl isn't accepting the code as it is a binary.
It dates from 2001 so I think this maybe before any actual encryption was used in perl2exe. Can anyone suggest another way to open this?
Thanks in advance.

In reply to perl2exe hacking by Anonymous Monk

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