Another win32 implementation: hiweedlayer?

[Dan Kegel]

http://hiweed.com/node/798 offers "hiweedlayer" for download.
It is supposedly a Windows layer like Wine.

Running strings on their single executable, I see
messages like
%s is being traced!
location has changed!
abnormal behavior!
shell has changed!
%s has expired!
Please contact your provider

which look like they're from this little bit of malware:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-25441.html

but perhaps they're just trying to keep people from reverse-engineering
their code (or finding out that they have Wine code inside?).

Using google language tools to translate the page,
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhiweed.com%2Fnode%2F798...
it looks like somebody already asked them if they were related to
wine, but they didn't really answer.

Can somebody fluent in Chinese make contact with them and see
what their story is with regard to wine?
- Dan

-- 
Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Dan Kegel" <dank(a)kegel.com> wrote:
> http://hiweed.com/node/798 offers "hiweedlayer" for download.
> It is supposedly a Windows layer like Wine.
>
> Running strings on their single executable, I see
> messages like
> %s is being traced!
> location has changed!
> abnormal behavior!
> shell has changed!
> %s has expired!
> Please contact your provider
>
> which look like they're from this little bit of malware:
>
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-25441.html
>
> but perhaps they're just trying to keep people from reverse-engineering
> their code (or finding out that they have Wine code inside?).

Exactly. Remove everything up to class.tgz.BEGIN in hiweedlayer and untar
it somewhere, what we see (reminds me something):

share/
dosdevices/
lib/
bin/
drive_c/
user.reg
system.reg
my.reg

and inside of lib\

wine\ (with all Wine dll.so files)
libwine.so.1
libwine.so.1.0

-- 
Dmitry.

[H. Verbeet]

On 24/03/07, Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> wrote:
> Exactly. Remove everything up to class.tgz.BEGIN in hiweedlayer and untar
> it somewhere, what we see (reminds me something):
>
> share/
> dosdevices/
> lib/
> bin/
> drive_c/
> user.reg
> system.reg
> my.reg
>
> and inside of lib\
>
> wine\ (with all Wine dll.so files)
> libwine.so.1
> libwine.so.1.0
>
> --
> Dmitry.

Yup. Going by the strings in "their" wined3d.dll.so, it's a relatively
recent version of wine as well.

[Stefan Dösinger]

> Yup. Going by the strings in "their" wined3d.dll.so, it's a relatively
> recent version of wine as well.
> It says wine-0.9.32. They seem to ship a native mfc40.dll and vb6 runtime. 
> Otherwise I could not see any special things yet.

[Dan Kegel]

I'm in touch with them now and am working through the list of issues.
- Dan

On 3/24/07, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger(a)gmx.at> wrote:
> > Yup. Going by the strings in "their" wined3d.dll.so, it's a relatively
> > recent version of wine as well.
> > It says wine-0.9.32. They seem to ship a native mfc40.dll and vb6 runtime.
> > Otherwise I could not see any special things yet.

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