From: "Marp" <marp AT 0 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 0>
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Subject: Re: strange text inside exe
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:45:00 -0400
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:1438-Fri12Oct2001081643+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il...
> > From: Ian Rees <ianr44 AT hotmail DOT nospam DOT com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:06:02 -0400
> >
> > What is the garbage doing in the exe file in the first place?
>
> Nothing; it's filling space that should have been zeroed.
>
> > It would seem to me if kryo could see enough of the 'garbage' to
> > tell it's code, it is probably wasting a fair amount of space
>
> It could be up to 2KB max, hardly something to care about.

Doesn't it concern you that sensitive data that doesn't belong in there
could end up in there (however slight that risk might be)? Why do the tools
assume that disk space is automatically initialized when it is allocated?
It's obviously an incorrect assumption.