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Software protection against cracks and piracy SoftComplete 10-28-2005
Posted by SoftComplete on October 28, 2005, 2:46 am
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Software piracy! Cracked serial numbers! Thousands of commercial
products are posted on the warez sites and become available to all
every day! Companies lose millions of dollars every year to software
piracy, and faulty protection programs. Shareware developers look for
unbreakable protection for their products and create some protection
themselves or try many of the ready-made tools. Unfortunately most
tools have already been cracked, and self solutions often only take one
determined cracked a few hours to bypass. As a result they soon find
the stoles keys and product cracks on thousands of hacker Internet
pages.
No solution ? Well there is

It is time to turn to time tested, EXECryptor protection product.
EXECryptor is a powerful software tool that provide developers with
software protection from reverse engineering, analysis and
modifications. Its main difference from other protection tools is its
brand new metamorphing code transformation technology.

With EXECryptor the protected code block is not just packed or
obfuscated like many other packers, but also disassembled into
nondeterminate transformations, effectively scrambling the visible
logical code structure and making it impossible to reverse. After the
code transformation, it remains executable and working as it is
supposed to but it cannot be analysed, modified, or circumvented.
It is not just a question about code encryption but also code
transformation. You can optionally wrap additional parts of your code,
at a source code level, in special flags which then transform into
virtually impossible code to trace, crack, or bypass. Protected code
blocks are never decrypted during execution they remain in their
transformed code state. Code restoration becomes an NP-hard problem.
EXECryptor has the innovative very powerful antidebug, antitrace and
import protection features to stop the latest cracking software.
EXECryptor allows to use short registration keys of 12/16 characters
long, based on a new generation of our HardKey algorithm,
cryptographically strong ultrashort digital signature.
The power of software protection with EXECryptor is proved out in
practice: despite numberous cracking attempts and challenges, the
EXECryptor's 2.x series has not been cracked since its inception in
July of 2004.
In addition to its advanced protection features, EXECryptor allows you
to compress the code and resources of your application.
EXECryptor is able to protect any 32bit PE executable file (exe, dll,
bpl, vxd, wdm). It has been tested with W95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/2003. SDKs
are available for Delphi, C++Builder, Microsoft Visual C++, LCC,
PellesC, Visual Basic, PowerBASIC and PureBasic.

What's new in this version :
* added sdk and example for IBasic
* improved antidebug and antitrace
* improved: compatibility with MS signcode tool
* improved: PowerBasic 8 compatible
EXECryptor is distributed electronically over the Internet; free trial
version is available at http://www.strongbit.com for evaluation.

* Operating system: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003
* RAM: 32 Mb
* Hard Disk: 2.5 Mb
Product Page: http://www.strongbit.com/execryptor.asp
Download: http://www.softcomplete.com/download/execryptor.zip
Buy Link: http://www.strongbit.com/order.asp



Posted by Jim Watt on October 28, 2005, 1:07 pm
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wrote:

<snip>

>No solution ? Well there is

but does it prevent advertising in newsgroups ?
--
Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com


Posted by Imhotep on October 28, 2005, 10:29 am
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Jim Watt wrote:

> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>No solution ? Well there is
>
> but does it prevent advertising in newsgroups ?
> --
> Jim Watt
> http://www.gibnet.com

hahaha...


Posted by x1134x on October 28, 2005, 8:26 pm
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SoftComplete wrote:
> Software piracy! Cracked serial numbers! Thousands of commercial
> products are posted on the warez sites and become available to all
> every day! Companies lose millions of dollars every year to software
> piracy, and faulty protection programs.


They don't lose near that much. You cannot get blood from a stone.
Just because someone circumvented copy-protection does not mean that
the originator LOST money. No money was ever invovled. If they
thought the product was reasonably priced they would have just bought
it in the first place. The reason people try to circumvent
copy-protection is because they are aghast at the price of the product,
and find it to be out of their reasonable spending range. If the person
were unable to defeat the copy protection, they would not automatically
fork up the money for the product, they would more than likely go
without, or seek a cheaper alternative.

Not saying what they are doing is RIGHT, just saying that it irritates
the hell out of me to hear that "Millions of dollars are lost to
piracy" because it just wasn't "lost" there was no money involved, and
the reason for further investigating circumvention hinges on the fact
that the person *WILL NOT* pay that much for it.

x1134x



Posted by Imhotep on October 28, 2005, 11:52 pm
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x1134x wrote:

>
> SoftComplete wrote:
>> Software piracy! Cracked serial numbers! Thousands of commercial
>> products are posted on the warez sites and become available to all
>> every day! Companies lose millions of dollars every year to software
>> piracy, and faulty protection programs.
>
>
> They don't lose near that much. You cannot get blood from a stone.
> Just because someone circumvented copy-protection does not mean that
> the originator LOST money. No money was ever invovled. If they
> thought the product was reasonably priced they would have just bought
> it in the first place. The reason people try to circumvent
> copy-protection is because they are aghast at the price of the product,
> and find it to be out of their reasonable spending range. If the person
> were unable to defeat the copy protection, they would not automatically
> fork up the money for the product, they would more than likely go
> without, or seek a cheaper alternative.
>
> Not saying what they are doing is RIGHT, just saying that it irritates
> the hell out of me to hear that "Millions of dollars are lost to
> piracy" because it just wasn't "lost" there was no money involved, and
> the reason for further investigating circumvention hinges on the fact
> that the person *WILL NOT* pay that much for it.
>
> x1134x


Very well put....

Imhotep


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