Scan Running Processess's Bytes

**anthropamorphic** · 07-06-2013, 11:08 PM

Scan Running Processes's Bytes

Hello, I have been working on a trying to build a method to scan a running processes's bytes. The program I'm working on is somewhat superfluous, but over the last few years I've been trying to progress my knowledge in all fields of computer science, and I've currently never really done much with data collection and modifications of external processes. The method that I need would be somewhat similar to the methods used in both "IHaxGames" and "CheatEngine". I have attempted to approach this in several ways; I was thinking I could try and see if the information is stored in some directory, but I don't think it is, I could see if I could decode the bytes using command line (since I found the processes through command line), or I could see if their is an actually java method to access some sort of inputstream of these processes, but when I've attempted to do so it only returns "-1" (nonexistent byte). So, if anyone knows a way to do this I would throughly appreciate your help. Thanks in advance -Alec

Edit: It doesn't seem like I'm going to get an answer, but just for anyone who is curious about this, I think I'm going to use JMI to access the processes's memory through C.

**JavaProphet** · 07-07-2013, 12:44 AM

As for getting a process' memory, I would use JNA w/ the platform api provided by it. It's a wrapper made for JNI that can do things like read/write memory, etc.

**jim829** · 07-07-2013, 02:42 AM

It's been less than 90 minutes since you posted your original question and you are frustrated that you don't have an answer. Sometimes it can take days (and that's during the week when the forum is more active). You should have more patience.

Regards,
Jim

**anthropamorphic** · 07-07-2013, 05:04 AM

Originally Posted by JavaProphet

As for getting a process' memory, I would use JNA w/ the platform api provided by it. It's a wrapper made for JNI that can do things like read/write memory, etc.

Thank you for the advice, I've been looking into JNA, but I'm currently having a little bit of difficulty with it since most of the tutorials for it are tailored to Window's computers. That being said, I think it's definitely the best way to go about reading memory.

**anthropamorphic** · 07-07-2013, 05:09 AM

Originally Posted by jim829

It's been less than 90 minutes since you posted your original question and you are frustrated that you don't have an answer. Sometimes it can take days (and that's during the week when the forum is more active). You should have more patience.

Regards,
Jim

Tone can sometimes be difficult to convey through text since people will generally add their own emotions into it, but I wasn't frustrated. I edited it because I had been searching the internet for hours and hadn't found a better answer than using JNI, so I added that bit in to help anyone else who was having a similar problem.