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Old April 25th, 2003   #3 (permalink)
Badaro
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Re: Why was PSXeven packed?

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Originally posted by grahf
I noticed that this emulator was packed with UPX, a program known to harbor trojans. From my experience, programs that were packed usually have something to hide. I'm not implying anything here but IMO packing a program seems unneccesary and attract unwanted suspicion..
IMHO you're just paranoid. There's plenty of programs out there packed with UPX, like MAME. And it's used simply because it cuts down the file size a lot, in MAME's case the .exe goes from 14MB to 3MB.

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