I'm interested in writing a memory scanning program (for cheating in games, looking for hidden processes, and such). I'm wondering if there's any way to do this with C++ without extensive knowledge of windows classes/programming. I'm thinking assigning a pointer to the first location of the processes stack or something, then iterating it - changing a value in the game, and rescanning it looking for change to know the actual locations of the variable (ie gold). This would allow me to create a reference variable to that address and modify the memory from outside the program. I imagine this isn't as easy as it sounds though (security and what not)
skatamatic 371 Practically a Posting Shark
ArkM 1,090 Postaholic
The C++ is a platform-independent universal programming language.
No such entities as "processes stack or something" in platform-independent languages.
Of course, you can implement any desired code in C++, but (alas): prepare to get "extensive knowledge of windows classes/programming" before start your insolent project (probably it's a right way to have a good time in prison)...
skatamatic 371 Practically a Posting Shark
lol. Well i understand classes, polymorhpisms, and inheritance - but my school hasn't covered many of the actual windows classes yet - there's just so many of them! So there's no way for a pointer to point to an address outside it's programs scope?
zhouxuzhu1985 0 Newbie Poster
I'm not sure, but every program is protected by paging. If you want to do this, you have to inject you code to the target program's address space.
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