The new PE Explorer release provides a framework for inspection and editing of EXE, DLL, ActiveX controls, and other 32-bit executable files. Version 1.99 includes a digital signature viewer and the ability to mark pre-Vista applications with a requested execution level, providing the way to deploy the same build of the application on both Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Vancouver, BC -- (ReleaseWire) -- 05/18/2007 -- Heaventools Software (http://www.heaventools.com) announced today the availability of PE Explorer 1.99, the latest release of its software development tool for inspection and editing of Windows executable files. The new PE Explorer release includes a digital signature viewer that enables verifying the signed executables and validating the software publisher's identity. It also adds the ability to mark pre-Vista applications with a requested execution level, providing the way to deploy the same build of the application on both Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Though anti-virus software is continually getting better, a significant percentage of malware escapes the automated screening process and manages to wreak havoc on networks. PE Explorer offers an in-depth look at the inner workings of downloaded executable files, and helps software companies determine if a binary is harmful by examining it manually and without relying on the automated scanning engines. The product includes functions for disassembly and inspection of unknown binaries, modification of the properties of executable files, plus customization and translation features. With PE Explorer, software engineers and security specialists can apply a professional approach to research and reverse engineering of binary files.

PE Explorer is an integrated collection of tools that provides a framework for working with EXE, DLL, ActiveX controls, and several other executable file formats that run on MS Windows 32-bit platforms. PE Explorer Disassembler helps developers figure out what software that they have no source code for does in a particular feature or function to the degree that they can either modify this code, or reproduce it in another independent work. The built-in resource editor allows companies to adjust software to their own needs and solve Vista install issues. The program uses a wizard-based approach to generating an application manifest which enables a target application to take advantage of the new common control styles and run elevated as an administrator on Windows Vista.

Availability and Pricing

PE Explorer is available directly from the heaventools.com website. PE Explorer is priced at $129 (US) for a personal license, the single-user business license is $199 (US) and includes free technical support, free software updates, and maintenance releases for 18 months from the date of purchase. Volume discounts are available.

PE Explorer runs on Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003 and Vista. Visit the Heaventools home page at http://www.heaventools.com to order PE Explorer or to download a time-limited trial version.

About Heaventools Software

Founded in 2000, Heaventools Software covers a very specialized market and is best known for its award-winning PE Explorer, the leading software product for inspection and reverse engineering of executable files.

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No longer do you need to have separate programs to debug or to decompress obfuscated malware and trojans. PE Explorer handles it all with one intuitive interface.

Vancouver, BC, Canada -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/07/2006 -- Heaventools Software (www.heaventools.com), creator of PE Explorer, announced today version 1.98 R4 of PE Explorer for inspecting and editing Windows executable files. PE Explorer provides software engineers the necessary tools for disassembly and inspection of unknown binaries, modifying the properties of executable files and customizing and translating their resources. With PE Explorer, they can apply a professional approach to research and reverse engineering of win32 PE executables.

Leveraging the power of PE Explorer Disassembler, customers can rapidly analyze the procedures and libraries a malware executable uses without ever activating the executable itself - a great advantage over debuggers where malicious code needs to be run to be analyzed. In addition to its previous roster of supported file types, PE Explorer R4 now supports for obfuscated executable files packed with Upack.

A rich visual interface and trouble-free, advanced capabilities makes it easy and fun for new users to get started with digging into any executable. PE Explorer offers a thorough look at PE (portable executable) file structure and all of the resources in the file, and tells you just about every little detail you could possibly want to know about a PE file. Once inside, file structure can be analyzed and optimized, problems diagnosed, changes made and resources repaired. Click an executable file to immediately display and edit any images, strings, or icons present in the file. Power users will appreciate the plug-in API and ability to view a list of the files that are required for an application to run or for a DLL to load, a list of exported and imported functions, the manifest wizard to easily mark the application as XP-enabled.

Availability and Pricing

PE Explorer is immediately available for download and purchase with the (USD) price for a single-user personal license starting at $129, a single-user business license is $199.

PE Explorer runs on Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003. A 30-day free trial may be downloaded from: http://www.heaventools.com/download.htm

About Heaventools Software

Founded in 2000, Heaventools Software is dedicated to providing and supporting the highest quality resource editing software available for Windows. One of the core competences of Heaventools Software is our proven ability to be the best that we can be within a narrow specialization area. We have developed a number of targeted advanced solutions for inspection and editing of executable files. Our partnership with Borland as a Technology Partner allows us to provide products with a very strong emphasis on peeking inside Delphi applications and packages. Our software solutions are affordable to the single professional Windows developer, yet powerful enough for large corporate projects. Our flagship product, PE Explorer has received excellent feedback from both the press and the development community. Visit Heaventools on the Web at www.heaventools.com

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Heaventools Software released Resource Tuner Console 1.5, a dedicated script driven resource editor that facilitates and automates editing of resources in 32 and 64-bit Windows executables.

Vancouver, BC, Canada -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/16/2006 -- Heaventools Software (www.heaventools.com), creator of PE Explorer, announced today version 1.5 of Resource Tuner Console, a tool with a command-line interface for editing of resources in Windows executables.

Resource Tuner Console combines a robust resource editor with intelligent script capabilities. This makes it extremely easy to include it in version control along with the script, removing the need to install a large build tool suite just to modify the properties of the executable files such as version information and icons. All the functionality of Resource Tuner Console is called from within your VBScript. Sample scripts illustrated the editing features can be found within the Resource Tuner Console package. They provide real-world examples demonstrating many of the features available in Resource Tuner Console, and make it a breeze to setup and get running.

It's a great timesaver. It does not require manual opening files. It is 100 times faster than traditional resource editors so you can get onto more important things. Just run a script via a stand-alone command-line exe, and you are done. Resource Tuner Console is a good choice for automating editing of resources because it is well suited for integrating into any build system, and it is not limited in parameters you can use in the command line.

Special resource editing capabilities in Resource Tuner Console 1.5 include replacing embedded XML manifest files, PNG compresed Vista icons, and attention to icon entry ordering. For optimal efficiency, developers can reuse the same subroutines or functions many times in different situations, and instantly update existing resources on existing Windows 32 and 64-bit executable files, or add new ones for several hundred files at once.

More information on all the features of Resource Tuner Console can be found at: http://www.heaventools.com/command-line_resource_editor.htm

Availability and Pricing

Resource Tuner Console is priced at US$199.00 for the Single Developer license. You can purchase Resource Tuner Console securely online at: http://www.heaventools.com/order.htm

Resource Tuner Console runs on Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003. An evaluation version has unrestricted functionality and can be downloaded from: http://www.heaventools.com/download.htm

Heaventools Software provides free minor software updates, maintenance releases, and priority technical support for the duration of the 18 month support period.

About Heaventools Software

Founded in 2000, Heaventools Software is dedicated to providing and supporting the highest quality resource editing software available for Windows. One of the core competences of Heaventools Software is our proven ability to be the best that we can be within a narrow specialization area. We have developed a number of targeted advanced solutions for inspection and editing of executable files. Our flagship product, PE Explorer has received excellent feedback from both the press and the development community. Visit Heaventools on the Web at www.heaventools.com

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New version of Heaventools PE Explorer provides support for scrambled executable files.

Vancouver, BC, Canada -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/11/2006 -- Heaventools Software (www.heaventools.com), creator of PE Explorer, announced today version 1.98 R3 of PE Explorer for inspecting and editing Windows executable files. PE Explorer provides software engineers the necesary tools for disassembly and inspection of unknown binaries, modifying the properties of executable files and customizing and translating their resources. With PE Explorer, they can apply a professional approach to research and reverse engineering of win32 PE executables.

Leveraging the power of PE Explorer Disassembler, customers can rapidly analyze the procedures and libraries a malware executable uses without ever activating the executable itself - a great advantage over debuggers where malicious code needs to be run to be analyzed. In addition to its previous roster of supported file types, PE Explorer R3 now supports for files modified with many UPX scramblers such as Advanced UPX Scrambler, UPoLyX, UPX Lock, and more. Now users can open these obfuscated files with PE Explorer even without knowing that: the files will be unpacked automatically.

A rich visual interface and trouble-free, advanced capabilities makes it easy and fun for new users to get started with digging into any executable. PE Explorer offers a thorough look at PE (portable executable) file structure and all of the resources in the file, and tells you just about every little detail you could possibly want to know about a PE file. Once inside, file structure can be analyzed and optimized, problems diagnosed, changes made and resources repaired. Power users will appreciate the plug-in API and ability to view a list of the files that are required for an application to run or for a DLL to load, a list of exported and imported functions, the manifest wizard to easily mark the application as XP-enabled.

Availability and Pricing

PE Explorer is immediately available for download and purchase with the (USD) price for a single-user personal license starting at $129, a single-user business license is $199.

PE Explorer runs on Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003. A 30-day free trial may be downloaded from: http://www.heaventools.com/download.htm

About Heaventools Software

Founded in 2000, Heaventools Software is dedicated to providing and supporting the highest quality resource editing software available for Windows. One of the core competences of Heaventools Software is our proven ability to be the best that we can be within a narrow specialization area. We have developed a number of targeted advanced solutions for inspection and editing of executable files. Our partnership with Borland as a Technology Partner allows us to provide products with a very strong emphasis on peeking inside Delphi applications and packages. Our software solutions are affordable to the single professional Windows developer, yet powerful enough for large corporate projects. Our flagship product, PE Explorer has received excellent feedback from both the press and the development community. Visit Heaventools on the Web at www.heaventools.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Vancouver, BC, Canada -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/15/2006 -- Heaventools Software announces the release of PE Explorer version 1.98 which now allows inspecting and editing the inner workings of Windows 32-bit executable files, and can make changes to any Windows application interface to reflect your personal tastes.

PE Explorer is a feature-rich and budget priced set of tools for those whose daily work involves reverse engineering of software and exploiting code, source code reviews, testing and evaluation of vulnerabilities. Because PE Explorer has itself been written using Borland Delphi, there's a very strong emphasis on peeking insideDelphi/C++Builder applications and packages. Once inside, target win32 file structure can be analyzed and optimized, problems diagnosed, changes made and resources repaired, assembly source code reconstructed.

PE Explorer Disassembler utilizes a qualitative algorithm designed to reconstruct the assembly language source code of target binary win32 PE files (EXE, DLL, OCX) with the highest degree of accuracy possible. The product also allows you to remove both debugging information and the base relocation table from an executable, as well as view and edit the various section headers (.text, .data, etc). Other features include automatic UPX unpacking, adding of Windows XP control styles to older applications, support for custom plug-ins and more.

PE Explorer 1.98 supports viewing and replacing large (256x256) Vista icons stored as PNG compressed images. It also includes the ability to to recover files after unpacking, even when a file header entry is no longer available.

PE Explorer is priced at $129 for the personal license, the single-user business license is $199. The 30-day trial version has unrestricted functionality. Runs on All Windows (95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP SP2/2003).

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