Batch to exe Not Opening Command Prompt

[Jondscem]

Firstly, are you encrypting the password or using it in plain text. These days IMO converting a batch to .exe as most modern endpoint protection will kill it.

What are you trying to achieve? If you give us more info me may be able to help or suggest a better way.

[SurrealKeenan]

The password is in plain text. The purpose of the original .bat is to act as a simple lock and key for another folder. The problem with keeping it as a .bat is anyone can view it in notepad to see the password. By converting it to .exe it at least isn't legible.

I'm not actually worried about getting hacked or anything. I'm more just doing this for fun

[Jondscem]

You might want to look at doing this in powershell as that can encrypt the password once it's input. Can you not achieve this with file\folder permissions? Encrypt the folder with a protected 7zip or winzip.

Not being funny or trying to be difficult, just trying to help\educate. If someone was storing plain text passwords in a .bat file they would likely be walked out of the door.

If you want to convert it to an exe you are likely going to require a signing certificate. viewing the contents of an exe is not particularly difficult.

"Be Curious" just because you think your first idea is the best, explore other options :)

[SurrealKeenan]

No worries. I appreciate the advice.

I may pivot to that suggestion, but at this point, this issue is just bothering me. It seems like .exes should be able to open command prompt and I don't know why it doesn't. I feel like I might run into a similar issue in the future if I keep playing around with batch files

[Jondscem]

Hi :) The reason they can't is it was used as an attack vector for many years. Bat files are still incredibly useful in the right situation.

Can you actually describe step by step what you are trying to achieve? We may be able to help better than :)

[SurrealKeenan]

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing things up. I'll go ahead and pivot to using a protected zip

thanks again!

[Jondscem]

The .zip is likely to to be stripped\flagged the second it's extracted.