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Old 07-26-2004, 03:14 PM
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What would I use to read an application in memory, say I loaded Notepad, it shows under my applications as notepad.exe, so I know its in memory, now I want to read the binary data.

Reason why I am asking is that I want to play around with writing a header reading application similar to anti-virus, so I can learn how they work and maybe write my own.

Getting the files from the hard drive is easy enough, but right now I can't seem to figure out how to read the first few bytes in memory on all the files, I know it has to be simple and I must be overlooking something.

VB.Net 2002 or VB.Net 2003 (I own both professional versions)

Thanks ahead of time!
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Look into the BinaryReader and BinaryWriter classes.
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