zonpan2lol
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THIS DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE
So there's been a discussion about renaming Honorbuddy. Some say it matters, others say it doesn't. Personally, I don't know and don't care but it doesn't hurt to try.
NOTE: This has to be done every time HB Updates.
Questions
-Why not simply rename honorbuddy.exe to something else?
It will hide name but the description remains the same. Assuming Blizzard scans for processes they could see chrome.exe is in fact a disguised Honorbuddy.
How-to:
Requirements:
You have to download this so you can edit the description:
Resource Hacker
It's totally safe, you can find mirrors on trusted websites if you don't trust my link. This is a re-assembler basically.
Steps:
Go to your Honorbuddy folder, find honorbuddy.exe and rename it to chrome.exe (you can rename it to something else but you'll then need to find the other exe's description).
Open ResHacker. Go to File > Open...
Find your honorbuddy that has been renamed to chrome.exe and click open or accept.
You will see 4 folders on the left of the ResHacker screen, expand the one that says version info, it pops up a folder named "1", expand again. There you'll find a file, click once on it.
On the right side scroll down a little bit, until you see these lines:
Now, the code after that until you reach the closing } symbol.
Where you deleted the code, paste this (it's Google Chrome actual description):
Click compile script, then File > Save
You should be all set, like this:
Author notes:
As I said previously:
I don't care if you care or not about renaming it
Neither do I care if you care about me caring about renaming it
Nor will I care if you care about me not caring about you caring about me caring about renaming it.
Use it if you want it, ask for help if you need it. Try to troll and I won't go with it.
Cya.
So there's been a discussion about renaming Honorbuddy. Some say it matters, others say it doesn't. Personally, I don't know and don't care but it doesn't hurt to try.
NOTE: This has to be done every time HB Updates.
Questions
-Why not simply rename honorbuddy.exe to something else?
It will hide name but the description remains the same. Assuming Blizzard scans for processes they could see chrome.exe is in fact a disguised Honorbuddy.
How-to:
Requirements:
You have to download this so you can edit the description:
Resource Hacker
It's totally safe, you can find mirrors on trusted websites if you don't trust my link. This is a re-assembler basically.
Steps:
Go to your Honorbuddy folder, find honorbuddy.exe and rename it to chrome.exe (you can rename it to something else but you'll then need to find the other exe's description).
Open ResHacker. Go to File > Open...
Find your honorbuddy that has been renamed to chrome.exe and click open or accept.
You will see 4 folders on the left of the ResHacker screen, expand the one that says version info, it pops up a folder named "1", expand again. There you'll find a file, click once on it.
On the right side scroll down a little bit, until you see these lines:
Code:
BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
{
BLOCK "000004B0"
{
Now, the code after that until you reach the closing } symbol.
Where you deleted the code, paste this (it's Google Chrome actual description):
Code:
VALUE "CompanyName", "Google Inc."
VALUE "FileDescription", "Google Chrome"
VALUE "FileVersion", "30.0.1599.101"
VALUE "InternalName", "chrome_exe"
VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved."
VALUE "OriginalFilename", "chrome.exe"
VALUE "ProductName", "Google Chrome"
VALUE "ProductVersion", "30.0.1599.101"
VALUE "CompanyShortName", "Google"
VALUE "ProductShortName", "Chrome"
VALUE "LastChange", "227552"
VALUE "Official Build", "1"
Click compile script, then File > Save
You should be all set, like this:

Author notes:
As I said previously:
I don't care if you care or not about renaming it
Neither do I care if you care about me caring about renaming it
Nor will I care if you care about me not caring about you caring about me caring about renaming it.
Use it if you want it, ask for help if you need it. Try to troll and I won't go with it.
Cya.