> > > > Yes. There's an application called something like Resource Hacker and you can modify the icons of the executables with that.

> > > Unfortunately that can't modify a compressed exe. Maybe there's a utility to decompress it first?

> > Are you sure it can't?
> > Because Windows can read the icon, even when it's compressed.

> Reading and extracting icons is basically all it can do for such exes.

Writing icons should be possible too then.
The executable itself is compressed with UPX: http://upx.sourceforge.net/
It can decompress it too.

> But I'm sure there's a utility for decompressing BZ/GZ compressed PEs, he just needs to find it. I remember using something called unlzexe to decompress Commander Keen a while back.

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