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old ... famous
upx
http://upx.sourceforge.net

new ... better compression with lzma (7zip!)

(Win)Upack
http://www.wex.cn/dwing/

or

PECompact2
http://www.bitsum.com/files/pec2student.zip

test your compressed exe against "false alarm" on http://www.virustotal.com

The upack thingy was nice!

Hmm, seems impressive so far... UPX compresses my app to 104,960 bytes
and this app compresses it to 94,572 bytes... the original was 293,888 bytes.

But in the ReadMe: "I'm going to stop developing this tool". What if there's
any problems with an executable in future? I don't like uncertainty like that.

well, then use another packer... i mean, you pack an exe for distribution, that's what it is for, isn't it?

UPX has so far been the only compressor wich worked well on all exe files. Some packers doesnt support this, some not that eg. some doesnt work with opengl app's etc etc.

UPX simply works So i wouldnt mind a few extra kbytes. I downloaded PE-Compact 2 and messed a little with the options, nothing that shouldnt work, tried to compress an exe file (wich upx did right away), and bam cpu went to 100%, i let it stand for 20 seconds.. Nothing! Its a 33 kbyte exe damnit!


Anyway:

http://www.woodmann.net/bart/download.p ... _fsg20.zip
MEW11 (no link, site down but up again soon.)

http://programmerstools.org/taxonomy/term/15 <--great site. Here is the packer section

http://www.nemokprod.go.ro/nb.htm <-- something like molebox, but free!

http://nsdsn.com

http://www.cgsoftlabs.ro/ <-exPressor

> you pack an exe for distribution

Actually, I have a situation where I compress certain incoming files on a
daily basis, so I'd be needing a compressor that has a future. But I guess
I could just use this final version if it's stable enough for my needs.

Yoda's Protector v1.03.3 at http://yodap.has.it/

zikitrake wrote:Yoda's Protector v1.03.3 at http://yodap.has.it/

Very Nice!