Have a .bat file which I want to turn into a .exe file

Gurus,

I have a .bat file which I want to turn into a .exe file. A utility that I
have called bat2exe.com turns .bat files into .com files, but not into .exe
files. I'm looking for something from a reputable company like Microsoft
instead of from an anonymous download site. What are your suggestions?

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Spin

"Spin" <> wrote in message
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> Gurus,
>
> I have a .bat file which I want to turn into a .exe file. A utility that
> I have called bat2exe.com turns .bat files into .com files, but not into
> .exe files. I'm looking for something from a reputable company like
> Microsoft instead of from an anonymous download site. What are your
> suggestions?

Since there is no such thing, my suggestions is that you give up the search.

Let me rephrase that - there *might* be such a thing, though not likely from
a reputable company, but it would *not* produce exe files that performed
exactly like the source .bat file.

That said, what is your reason and purpose for this quest?

/Al

The reason for this is my company recently got hit with a virus that created
a file in the user's startup folder called Iexplore.exe. Of course, it
wasn't the real Iexplore.exe and when launched it did nefarious thoings to
the system. This was in spite of the fact that we had Antivirus running on
the system. In order to prvent this from happening in the future, I want to
create software restriction policies that will only allow the "true"
Iexplore.exe to run, and will do this by using a hash rule. This will be a
backup of sorts, to my Antivirus. Of course I need to test this and by
doing so I created a batch file that simply launches Iexplore.exe (start
Iexplore.exe). But it's named Iexplore.bat and I need to rename it to
Iexplore.exe in order to test my software restriction policy hash rule.

"Spin" <> wrote in message
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> The reason for this is my company recently got hit with a virus that
> created a file in the user's startup folder called Iexplore.exe. Of
> course, it wasn't the real Iexplore.exe and when launched it did nefarious
> thoings to the system. This was in spite of the fact that we had
> Antivirus running on the system. In order to prvent this from happening
> in the future, I want to create software restriction policies that will
> only allow the "true" Iexplore.exe to run, and will do this by using a
> hash rule. This will be a backup of sorts, to my Antivirus. Of course I
> need to test this and by doing so I created a batch file that simply
> launches Iexplore.exe (start Iexplore.exe). But it's named Iexplore.bat
> and I need to rename it to Iexplore.exe in order to test my software
> restriction policy hash rule.

You could achieve the same effect by copying cmd.exe to the user's startup
folder, then renaming it to iexplore.exe.

Nice idea Pegasus, that works even better!!!!