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Between years 2004-2007 I maintained a small hobby programming page where I was releasing free software tools and various snippets in assembly. One of the programs I have written at that time was Kakeeware Application Monitor – a very small API monitor coded entirely in x86 assembly language. The last update has been made in 2007 and I have not touched the program since.

In July 2011 I decided to come back to my old sources and fix a few bugs and add new APIs that have been introduced in Vista and Windows 7, plus other APIs I could find. After poking around I managed to build a decent list of new APIs and these that I have missed previously. Turns out that after putting it all together, the number of APIs that the program can now handle expanded to almost 12000!

After few months of polishing, I am finally ready to release a new version. Since all my code will be now released under Hexacorn name, I changed the program’s name as well, so from now on it will be called Hexacorn Application Monitor (a.k.a. HAM). And just for the fun of it, I also added ‘Pro’ to its name :).

Hexacorn Application Monitor

This program is FREE for both commercial and non-commercial use. Yup, you heard that right. Note that this is a new version of the tool that has been not updated in 4 years. It surely contains bugs and some of the APIs may not be intercepted properly. If you find bugs. or find it useful, please do let me know. Thanks.

Enjoy!

I will soon post some practical examples on how to use it and what sort of stuff you can find with it.

Download HAM

Hexacorn blog is about the pleasure of finding things out.

The title may sound familiar to you and you are right. ‘The Pleasure of Finding Things Out’ is a collection of short works from American physicist Richard Feynman.

Feynman was an extraordinary person, or at least he managed to made many people think this way. It doesn’t matter. What matters is that he was right about finding things out. It is a very satisfying activity that offers a lot intellectual pleasure. Just think about it for a second… If you ever solved a puzzle, or created one… if you managed to bypass some security protection like crack a game, or pick the lock, you know what I am talking about. There is that litttle craze, a drive that makes you work on the problem long hours, until you solve it.

At Hexacorn, we are fascinated by it. We just love to crack stuff. And we will be writing about it.