SoftLock/HardLock

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Pretty interesting.

SafeLock and Hardlock are different protections.

SafeLock was made for SafeLock company by some russian guys in recent months - it's nothing unusual, IceExt completely hides the debugger and then you can do what you want (it isn't strong protection, for example: import table is almost untouched).

Hardlock is hardware dongle based protection with its usual envelope idea. There exists some ready made tools which allow to automatically deprotect the envelope or emulate it (I don't mean the emulator from BrainStudio but other interesting small software which disables the HardLock envelope automatically - assuming you have at least one valid dongle or access to it).

Good Luck.