haven't spoke up in awhile, but i'll put in my 2 cents re: toughies

execryptor: i've actually written full on inline patches (internal loader ) for this, but it is a bit of a nuisance.

Themida is a great (albeit intrusive on the user side which i don't like). but, again, i've inlined that one as well

obsidium, again great to take on head-on, but still can be inline patched.

protectors like arma have their place (i guess) altho i don't like (for the user side) the extra overhead of a monitoring debugger that controls the app. silly and uses more resources than necessary. oh, and did i forget can also be easily inlined

asprotect: sleek, simple, highly dumpable/crackable except if USED PROPERLY! with it's crypted function blocks that are simply unaccessible unless you have a proper key. easily inlined and dumped, but quick as hell, so better for the end-user. also, easily dumped if you have a real key... but then again, aren't they all (included dongle protections) if you have a source with a valid key to dump vital protected code, then game over.


oh yeah, let's not forget upx... they recently changed their static final jump spot from 61E9 to a different jump config sig